New synonymy in the leafhopper genus Stegelytra Mulsant and Rey and description of a new genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae)
Author
Wei, C.
Author
Zhang, Y. - L.
Author
Webb, M. D.
text
Journal of Natural History
2006
2006-12-21
40
35 - 37
2057
2069
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930601046378
journal article
10.1080/00222930601046378
1464-5262
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Daochia bicornis
sp. n.
(
Figures 33–38
)
Description
Body length
6.5 mm
. Dorsum and face generally yellowish brown with pale yellow markings as in
Figures 15–18
; eyes dark brown; ocelli red. Fore wing with veins generally red with claval veins yellow-white; a triangular-shaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum and legs yellow-white.
Male genitalia with connective broad. Aedeagus broadly U-shaped in lateral view; shaft very long and narrow, fimbriolate apically on anterior and posterior margin, an elongate laterally serrate process on each side arising near mid-length and extended to slightly distal of shaft apex, slightly curved dorsally and adpressed to shaft.
Figures 33–38.
Daochia bicornis
sp. n.
(33, 34) Connective and paramere, dorsal and ventral view, respectively. (35, 36) Aedeagus posterior and left lateral view, respectively. (37, 38) Apex of aedeagal shaft, anterior and posterior view, respectively.
Type material
Holotype
:
„
(
IRSNB
), P. R.
China
,
Yunnan Prov.
, Meng-La Co. (
21.48
°
N
,
101.56
°
E
), 7
March 1999, river, P. Grootaert.
Etymology
Named after its single pair of aedeagal processes.
Biology
See Introduction.
Remarks
This species can be distinguished by (1) broad connective; (2) broadly U-shaped aedeagus in lateral view; and (3) single pair of lateral aedeagal processes extending beyond shaft.