A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae)
Author
Zahniser, James N.
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Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: C 44 D 6 E 44 - FA 1 C- 4 B 29 - B 7 BB-FAF 5940 CD 225 & corresponding author e-mail: zahniser @ illinois. edu
Author
Dietrich, Chris H.
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Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, United States of America & urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 82 FCB 86 C- 54 B 4 - 456 A-AE 5 E-D 7847 D 271 CB 9
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2013
2013-05-29
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Hecalina
Distant, 1908
Fig. 28
Type
genus:
Hecalus
Stål, 1864
.
Diagnosis
Hecalina
are medium sized to large yellow, greenish, or brownish leafhoppers, sometimes with orange or reddish stripes. They are distinguished from Glossocratina by the unkeeled laterofrontal suture, gena with fine erect seta beside the laterofrontal suture, ovipositor extending far beyond the pygofer apex, and second valvula without dorsal teeth.
Description
HEAD. Head subequal to or wider than pronotum. Discal portion of crown radially or longitudinally striate or shagreen. Anterior margin of head shagreen, glabrous, irregularly textured, foliaceous, with a single transverse carina, or with 2 or 3 parallel carinae. Frontoclypeus tumid or not; texture shagreen. Clypellus parallel-sided or tapering apically; apex following or slightly surpassing normal curve of gena. Lorum distinctly narrower than clypellus near base. Antennal bases near middle or posteroventral (lower) corners of eyes. Antennae short, less than 1.5 x width of head. Gena obtusely incised laterally or strongly incised laterally (nearly forming right angle); with fine erect seta beside laterofrontal suture. Antennal ledges absent. Ocelli present; close to eyes; on anterior margin of head.
THORAX. Pronotum lateral margin carinate; lateral margin as long as or longer than basal width of eye.
WINGS. Forewing brachypterous to macropterous; appendix restricted to anal margin; with 3 anteapical cells; veins not raised; without reflexed costal veins; A1-A2 crossvein absent or present; apical venation not highly reticulate.
LEGS. Profemur with
AM
1 seta only; intercalary row with one row of five or more fine setae; row AV with short, stout setae. Protibia dorsal surface rounded, convex. Metafemur apex macrosetae 2+2+1. Metatarsomere I not expanded apically or expanded apically, plantar setae simple, tapered.
MALE
GENITALIA. Apodemes of sternite I long, as long as those of sternite II, relatively narrow. Apodemes of sternite II large, broad. Valve articulated with pygofer; with short point of articulation with pygofer. Pygofer basolateral membranous cleft present; macrosetae well differentiated into several rows; anteroventral margins lobate; produced posterodorsally. Subgenital plates free from each other; articulated with valve; macrosetae scattered, irregularly arranged, or uniseriate laterally. Style broadly bilobed basally, median anterior lobe pronounced. Basal processes of the aedeagus/connective absent. Aedeagus without basal hinge; with a single shaft and gonopore; often with one or two pairs of apical or subapical processes. Connective anterior arms somewhat divergent,
Y
- or
U
-shaped; stem often short; articulated with aedeagus. Segment X partially retracted into pygofer.
Fig. 28.
Hecalini
(
Hecalina
).
A–B
,
D–I
.
Hecalus hamiltoni
sp. nov.
C
.
Hecalus viridis
(Uhler, 1877)
.
J
.
Attenuipyga platyrhynchus
(Osborn, 1894)
. A1, ♂. A2, ♀.
A–I
. Standard views (see Material & Methods).
J
. Ventral views of sternites I and II.
s1ap
= apodeme of sternite I,
s2ap
= apodeme of sternite II.
FEMALE GENITALIA. Pygofer with macrosetae reduced or absent. Ovipositor protruding far beyond pygofer apex. First valvula not strongly convex; humpbacked in shape; dorsal sculpturing pattern granulose or maculose; sculpturing submarginal; with ventroapical sculpturing distinctly delimited. Second valvula gradually broadened medially or subapically; humpbacked in shape; concave ventrally; without dorsal median tooth; teeth absent.
Geography and ecology
Distribution: cosmopolitan.
Hecalina
are grass feeders.
Remarks
Hecalina
contains 22 genera and 151 species.
Except for
Hecalus
,
Attenuipyga
, and
Neoslossonia
, all genera were previously unplaced to subtribe and are included here in the subtribe
Hecalina
.
Hecalus
was previously the only included genus in the subtribe (
Dmitriev 2002
).
Attenuipyga
and
Neoslossonia
are transferred to
Hecalina
from Dorycephalini.
Included genera
Alospangbergia
Evans, 1973
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Annidion
Kirkaldy, 1905
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Attenuipyga
Oman, 1949
placement nov. (transferred from Dorycephalini)
Bordesia
de Bergevin, 1929
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Cephalius
Fieber, 1875
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Clavena
Melichar, 1902
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Dicyphonia
Ball, 1900
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Epicephalius
Matsumura, 1908
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Hecalocratus
Evans, 1966
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Hecalus
Stål, 1864
Hecalusina
He, Zhang & Webb, 2008
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Jiutepeca
Linnavuori & DeLong, 1978
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Linnavuoriella
Evans, 1966
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Lualabanus
Linnavuori, 1975
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Memnonia
Ball, 1900
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Neohecalus
Linnavuori, 1975
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Neoslossonia
Van Duzee, 1909
placement nov. (transferred from Dorycephalini)
Parabolocratalis
Evans, 1955
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Psegmatus
Fieber, 1875
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Reuteriella
Signoret, 1879
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Spangbergiella
Signoret, 1879
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)
Thomsoniella
Signoret, 1880
placement nov. (previously unplaced in
Hecalini
)