Review of bamboo-feeding leafhopper genus Mukaria Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mukariinae) with description of a new species from China
Author
Yang, Lin
Author
Chen, Xiang-Sheng
text
Zootaxa
2011
2882
27
34
journal article
46892
10.5281/zenodo.207859
1ce0ee4a-ee98-4e2e-a2a4-b19ecd3e184f
1175-5326
207859
Mukaria
Distant
Mukaria
Distant 1908
: 269
;
Li and Chen, 1999
: 112
.
Type
species:
Mukaria penthimioides
Distant, 1908
, by original designated.
Parabolotettix
Matsumura 1912
: 280.
Type
species:
P. maculatus
Matsumura, 1912
, by original designation.
Ikomella
Ishihara 1961
: 253.
Type
species:
I.
confersa
Ishihara, 1961
, by original designation.
Head and thorax.
Vertex (
Figs 1
,
10, 11, 13
,
15–23
) as long as or shorter than pronotum, subconically anteriorly rounded, more than half as long as breadth between eyes, with anterior and submarginal carinae, disk elevated basally; ocelli on crown, between anterior and submarginal carinae, separated from eyes and closer to anterior margin; eyes long, oblique, extending backward over anterior angles of pronotum; face (
Fig. 14
) including eyes as long as broad, frontoclypeus transversely impressed across base beneath prominent overhanging anterior edge of head, narrowed towards clypeus; clypellus narrowing apically; lorum broad; pronotum (
Figs 1, 2
,
10–13
,
15–23
) elevated centrally, arched, anterior margin convexly rounded between eyes, posterior margin slightly concave, lateral margin short; mesonotum and scutellum (
Figs 1, 2
,
10–13
,
15–23
) triangular, large, broad, basal margin longer than lateral margin, transverse depression slightly curving, short, not reaching lateral margins; forewing (
Figs 3
,
10–12
,
15–23
) elongate, considerably longer than abdomen, slightly widened posteriorly, with four apical cells, venation obscure except near apex; appendix well developed; hind wing (
Fig. 4
) with four closed apical cells; hind femur with macrosetal formula 2 + 2 + 1.
Genitalia.
Male pygofer (
Fig. 5
) rather depressed, broad, with macrosetae ventrocaudally, ventral margin with or without stout spinous process; valve (
Fig. 6
) broad, subtriangular; subgenital plate (
Fig. 6
) broad and short, often with short macrosetae; style (
Fig. 7
) broad at base, narrowed at apex; connective (
Fig. 7
) U-shaped, fused with aedeagus; aedeagus (
Figs 7, 8
) with paired shafts; female sternite VII (
Fig. 9
) with hind margin broadly concave.
Host plants.
Bamboo [
Neosinocalamus affinis
(Rendle) Keng
f.,
Phyllostachys sulphurea
(Carr.)
A. & C. Riv,
Qiongzhuea communis
Hsueh & Yi
,
Cephalostachyum
sp.,
Bambusa multiplex
Raeuschel
,
B. vulgaris
Schrad
].
Distribution.
Southeastern Palaearctic, Oriental and Oceanic regions (
Fig. 24
).