Chinaocerus Zhang & Li, 2016

Liu, Guihua, Yang, Hefeng, Li, Guoqing, Chen, Zhenning & Zhang, Bin, 2022, A new species of the idiocerine leafhopper genus Chinaocerus Zhang & Li (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from northwest China, with a checklist and key to species, Zootaxa 5105 (3), pp. 445-450 : 446

Key to the males of the genus Chinaocerus Zhang & Li

1. Aedeagal shaft with elongate dorsal lamella on each side...................................................... 2

- Aedeagal shaft without lamellae or with distal lamella-like process on each side................................... 4

2. Aedeagal shaft evenly curved dorsally in lateral view, tubular............................... tubulatus Zhang & Webb

- Aedeagal shaft sinuate in lateral view, compressed........................................................... 3

3. Aedeagal shaft with pair of very short spine-like processes distally.......................... kangdingensis Zhang & Li

- Aedeagal shaft with pair of very short spine-like processes and pair of short elongate processes distally.................................................................................................... bispinatus Zhang & Li

4. Aedeagal shaft with lateral lamella-like process and pair of elongate processes on each side distally................................................................................................... sexspinosus Zhang & Webb

- Aedeagal shaft without lateral lamella-like process........................................................... 5

5. Aedeagal shaft with pair of very short spine-like processes distally............................ dentatus Zhang sp. nov.

- Aedeagal shaft, with one long and one short elongate process on each side distally...................... shii Zhang & Li