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
5232073
Daochia reticulata
sp. n.
(
Figures 15–27
)
Description
Body length 7.0–
7.8 mm
. Dorsum generally yellow-brown with pale yellow markings as in
Figures 15–18
; anterior part of anteclypeus, lora and gena reddish; ocelli red-brown. Fore wing with veins generally yellow-white with some basal veins dark red; a triangular-shaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum yellow-white, legs yellow-white to dark brown.
Male genitalia with connective narrow. Aedeagus with shaft moderately long and narrow, fimbriolate apically on posterior margin; a laterally broad basal process on each side and a slightly shorter more posterior process on each side, both pairs of processes slightly divergent in posterior view and following curve of shaft in lateral view.
Type material
Holotype
:
„
(
CAU
), P. R.
China
,
Tibet
: Bo-Mi Co.,
Yi Gong
(
30.01
°
N
,
94.80
°
E
),
2300 m
,
31 July 1978
, Fa-Sheng Li
.
Paratypes
: P. R.
China
,
Yunnan Prov.
: 1
„
(
CAU
), Rui-Li Co., Nan-Jing-Li (
24.00
°
N
,
97.83
°
E
),
4 May 1981
, Fa-Sheng Li; 1
„
(
CAU
)
,
Sichuan Prov.
:
Omei Shan
,
Wan-Nian Temple
(
29.53
°
N
,
103.35
°
E
),
1020 m
,
16 July 1978
, Fa-Sheng Li
.
Additional material.
The following female specimens that are generally paler than the males may be this species:P. R.
China
,
Yunnan Prov.
:
1♀
(
CAU
),
Men-Hai Co.
, Nan-Nuo-Shan (
21.95
°
N
,
100.50
°
E
),
1400 m
,
2 March 1957
, Da-Wei Liu
;
1♀
(
CAU
),
Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture
(21.08,
22.36
°
N
, 99.56,
101.50
°
E
),
18 March 1957
, Qiu-Zhen Liang
.
Etymology
Named after the conspicuously reticulate fore wing venation.
Biology
Unknown (see Introduction).