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 longshengensis
sp. n.
(
Figures 28–32
)
Description
Body length
7.6 mm
. Dorsum generally brown with pale yellow markings as in
Figures 15– 18
; frontoclypeus with several dark ochre transverse symmetrical marks; anterior part of anteclypeus red; ocelli yellow-white margined red-brown. Fore wing with a triangularshaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin; sternum and legs yellow-white.
Disc of vertex distinctly concave; gena deeply longitudinally sulcate below eye.
Male genitalia with connective broad; anterior margin concave with a short medial projection. Paramere with inner basal apophysis broadly rounded. Aedeagal shaft elongate in lateral view, compressed antero-posteriorly, fimbriolate apically; a long preatrium present with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages basally, the latter serrate apically on anterior surface.
Figures 28–32.
Daochia longshengensis
sp. n.
(28) Male genital capsule and anal tube, left lateral view. (29) Connective and paramere, dorsal view. (30) Aedeagus, posterior view (in direction of arrow in Figure 31). (31) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (32) Apex of aedeagus, posterior view.
Type material
Holotype
:
„
(
TNHM
), P. R.
China
:
Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region
:
Long-Sheng Co.
, Tian-Ping-Shan (
25.47
°
N
,
110.00
°
E
),
30 August 1964
, Sheng-Li Liu.
Etymology
Named after its
type
locality.
Biology
Unknown (see Introduction).
Remarks
This species can be distinguished by its aedeagus with a long preatrium with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages arising from its base.