Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species Author Zhao, Yong-Tao 0000-0002-2954-1332 Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & Guizhou Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. Author Luo, Qiang 0000-0001-9927-1887 Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, PR China. Author Yang, Lin 0000-0002-7841-5156 Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & Guizhou Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. Author Chen, Xiang-Sheng Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & Guizhou Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. text Zootaxa 2024 2024-06-27 5474 3 259 270 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4 1175-5326 12567715 9562F4AC-2627-4DD5-B802-EC3E52E35545 Genus Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb, 2019: 20 . Mukariella Ramaiah, Meshram & Dey, 2023 . Type species: Mukariella daii Viraktamath & Webb, 2019 , by original designation. Diagnosis. External characters as in generic description of Viraktamath & Webb (2019) . Remarks . The genus can be identified by the following characteristics. Medium sized body, mostly black or tawny. Width of head including eyes is narrow to width of pronotum, the anterior margin of the crown extends foreward, with three marginal ridges, crown seam obvious. Face including eyes broader than long, horizontal, flat in lateral view; frontoclypeus gradually narrowed; lorum long and narrow. Pronotum longer than crown, posterior margin slightly concave, anterior margin convex. Forewings yellow or black, with 3 subapical cells. Male pygofer is wide at base, tipped with setae, ventral margin with or without protuberance. Valve triangular. Subgenital plates with a few hair-like setae, trapezoidal with or without apical membranous appendage. Distal apophysis of style with or without dentate prominences, tapered distally and sculptured ventrally. Connective and aedeagus fused. Aedeagus shaft tubular with apical large gonopore, with or without protrusions in subterminal. Distributions. China , India . FIGURES 12–22. Mukaria striola sp. nov. , male: 12 . Male habitus, dorsal view; 13 . Male habitus, lateral view; 14 . Head and thorax, dorsal view; 15 . Head and thorax, lateral view; 16 . Face; 17 . Male pygofer, lateral view; 18 . Male pygofer, ventral view; 19 . Connective and aedeagus, dorsal view; 20 . Connective and aedeagus, lateral view; 21 . Style; 22 . Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view. Scale bars: 0.5 mm (12–16); 0.2 mm (17–22). FIGURES 23–32. Mukaria creagra sp. nov. , female: 23 . Female sternite VII, ventral view; 25 . First valvula; 26. Detail of dorsal sculptured area of first valvula; 27 . Second valvula; 28 . Detail of dorsal sculptured area of second valvular; Mukaria striola sp. nov. , female: 24 . Female sternite VII, ventral view; 29 . First valvula; 30 . Detail of dorsal sculptured area of first valvula; 31 . Second valvula; 32 . Detail of dorsal sculptured area of second valvular. Scale bars: 0.2 mm. Descriptions