Revision of the Oriental leafhopper genus Destinoides Cai & He (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), with a new synonym and two new combinations Author Sun, Jing Author Webb, Michael D. Author Zhang, Yalin text Zootaxa 2014 3786 1 79 84 journal article 36870 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.1.6 3a05ea5e-e8a8-46dc-bc43-9275ae7546ec 1175-5326 285873 401E38A0-E626-48E9-B1DE-7890B817001C Destinoides latifrons (Walker) n. comb. Figs 1–9 Ledra latifrons Walker, 1851 : 824 Petalocephala latifrons , Stål, 1862 : 494 ; Distant, 1908 : 166 , fig. 110. Destinoides fasciata Cai & He, 2000 : 57 –58, fig. 13–1. syn. nov. Redescription. Male. Body length (incl. forewing) 13–14 mm , head width (incl. eyes) 4.1 mm, pronotum width 4.2 mm. Body yellowish-brown; ocelli pale red margined with brown ( Fig. 1 ); pronotum with lateral margin brown; forewing with inner area of clavus brown. Crown with fore margin angled distad of eyes. FIGURES 1–9. Destinoides latifrons (Walker) (holotype). 1, habitus, dorsal view; 2, habitus, lateral view; 3, face; 4, male 8th sternite, ventral view; 5, subgenital plate, ventral view; 6, pygofer, lateral view; 7, magnified process of pygofer, ventral view; 8, aedeagus, style and connective, ventral view; 9, aedeagus, style and connective, lateral view. Male 8th sternite with posterior margin concave ( Fig. 4 ). Inner pygofer process triangular ventrally ( Fig. 7 ). Aedeagal shaft with pair of subapical forklike processes and a very small dorsoapical process near gonopore ( Figs 8, 9 ). Material examined. 1 male ( Holotype ), no data. INDIA : 1 male , Assam , W. F. Badgley ( BMNH ); 1 (abdomen missing), Sikkim ‘Mungphu’ (probably the Atkinson specimen noted by Distant, 1908 ) ( BMNH ); 1 male , Bengal ‘Sylhet’ ‘68.4’ [= 1868.4: W. Saunders, part of 5000 ‘Homoptera’ donation], also noted by Distant (1908) ( BMNH ). CHINA : 1 male , Xizang , Motuo, 2 June 1980 , Gentao Jin, Jianyi Wu ( SHEM ). Distribution. China (Xizang), Bengal, India (Assam), Sikkim. Remarks. This species was described from a single specimen ( holotype ) denoted by the letter “a” by Walker, without data. The holotype (BMNH) bears the following labels: “367, 31. LEDRA LATIFRONS ” together with a museum green “ Type ” label (by Walker). Distant (1908) listed the species from various localities in India , including the three Indian specimens listed above in the BMNH. This species is easily distinguished from D . conspicuus (Distant) by the presence of three rather than one processes on the aedeagal shaft. Cai & He (2000) reported D . latifrons (Walker) as a new combination and a new record to China but based on their description of the aedeagus (in key) with a single apical process, their material might be D. conspicuus .