Two new species of the genus Japananus Ball, 1931 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae)
Author
Xing, Ji-Chun
Author
Dai, Ren-Huai
Author
Li, Zi-Zhong
text
Zootaxa
2010
2415
63
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.294358
88316c3b-530c-4114-9f5a-329764592315
1175-5326
294358
Japananus
Ball
Japananus
Ball,
1931
:
218
;
Viraktamath & Anantha Murthy
1999
:
44
;
Xing
et al.
2008
:
24
.
Type
species:
Platymetopius hyalinus
Osborn,
1900
.
Diagnosis.
This genus is similar to
Afrascius
Linnavuori,
1969
in having a Y-shaped connective, paired aedeagal shafts and a subapical process on each shaft, but can be distinguished by the subgenital plates having a caudal attenuated process, and the aedeagus without long ventral appendages and with the gonopores subapical.
Distribution.
Australian Region, Nearctic Region, Palaearctic Region, Oriental Region.