Description of two new species of the leafhopper genus Karachiota (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini) from China
Author
Jiao, Meng
Author
Yang, Maofa
text
Zootaxa
2015
3915
3
446
450
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3915.3.10
c0300ee8-f2c6-46cd-8cb2-ff2d945c2270
1175-5326
239095
79599AEE-8F41-4ABE-B918-320148B62161
Genus
Karachiota
Ahmed, 1969
Karachiota
Ahmed, 1969
: 58
Javadikra
Dworakowska, 1971
: 585
Pusatettix
Ramakrishnan & Menon, 1971
: 463
Type
species:
Karachiota azadirachtae
Ahmed, 1969
Description
. Body small, slender. Vertex triangular. Coronal suture distinct. Face depressed in lateral view. Forewing with small black spot on basal part of first apical cell, second cell narrow throughout; third apical cell broader apically; fourth apical cell short, not attaining wing apex (
Ahmed, 1969
).
Male abdomen well developed. Pygofer depressed, with row of setae on lateral margin (
Ahmed, 1969
). Male plate triangular, greatly reduced and without setae. Paramere arcuate. Connective V-shaped. Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme long and slender, shaft with pair of distal processes.
Distribution.
China
(Guizhou, Hainan,
Taiwan
),
Japan
,
Thailand
,
Pakistan
,
India
,
Vietnam
,
Nepal
.