A remarkable microleafhopper genus Koreoneura gen. nov. and newly recorded genus of the tribe Dikraneurini from Korea (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)
Author
Hossain, Md. Shamim
0000-0001-9207-7344
School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702 - 701, Korea & shamim. bsmrau @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9207 - 7344
shamim.bsmrau@gmail.com
Author
Kwon, Jin Hyung
0000-0002-1134-2255
School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702 - 701, Korea & jhkwon @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1134 - 2255
jhkwon@illinois.edu
Author
Suh, Sang Jae
0000-0002-7489-3193
School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702 - 701, Korea & sjsuh @ knu. ac. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7489 - 3193
sjsuh@knu.ac.kr
Author
Kwon, Yong Jung
0000-0002-5952-0997
School of Applied Biosciences, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702 - 701, Korea & yjkwon @ knu. ac. kr; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5952 - 0997
yjkwon@knu.ac.kr
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-06
4951
2
353
360
journal article
7395
10.11646/zootaxa.4951.2.8
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1175-5326
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Koreoneura eunyeopae
Hossain et J. Kwon
,
gen. et sp. nov.
(
Figs. 4–15
;
16–19
)
Description.
Biggest microleafhopper so far reported from
East Asia
; general body color brownish orange with black markings, darker in fresh specimens; head much narrower than pronotum, crown with 2 black submedial spots, short and broad, anterior and posterior margin more or less parallel. Pronotum broadened compared to head and scutellum, widened posteriorly, with anterior margin roundly produced, posterior margin a little concave. Frontoclypeus broadly bordered laterally with dark brown in color, anteclypeus and gena dark brown, lorum and rostrum yellowish brown. Forewing orange, apical portion hyaline; hindwing subhyaline. Second abdominal sternal apodeme in male with posterior lobes well developed, reaching to end of 4th sternite.
FIGURES 16–19.
Koreoneura eunyeopae
sp. nov.
: 16. Front leg, ventral view; 17. Hind leg, dorsolateral view; 18. Hind tarsi, dorsolateral view; 19. Hind tarsi, ventrolateral view showing apical crown spines.
Male genitalia.
As described for genus.
Length.
Male
5.3–5.5mm
, female
5.5–5.7mm
.
Type material.
Holotype
male,
Korea
,
Jeonnam Province
:
Mt. Mudeungsan
,
on
Cornus coreana
,
26.VII.1981
,
Y.J. Kwon
;
paratypes
,
13 males
and
14 females
, same data as holotype;
6 females
,
Korea
,
Gyeongbuk Province
,
Mt. Sambongsan
,
14.VIII.1997
;
5 males
&
5 females
,
Korea
,
Gyeongbuk Province
,
Angang
-eup,
VII. 24. 2019
; all same host and collector.
Distribution.
Korea
(South).
Etymology.
The
species is named in honor of
Dr. Eun Yeop Huh
, who first identified the species in
Korea
.
Host
plant.
Cornus coreana
.
Remarks.
This
is the biggest (>
5.5mm
) among the known typhlocybine leafhoppers from
East Asia
, so far.