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Cai
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, 208, fig. 1, AL, by original designation.
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797D9DA178BB2AFF43" box="[151,265,861,884]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Synonymy.</emphasis>
None.
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797D9DA1BABB0CFF8E" bold="true" box="[151,303,927,953]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Description.</emphasis>
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: “The new genus…closely resembles to [sic]
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Stål
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, but differs in every element of the male genitalia, especially in the pygofer with apex bifurcated, the aedeagus with a pair [of] long processes, and the style with a long spin on apex, also by the pattern of the crown.”
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797D9DA636BADAF81A" bold="true" box="[151,249,1043,1069]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Species.</emphasis>
[2]:
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797C38A631BBB3F81A" box="[306,400,1044,1069]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">aequata</emphasis>
Cai
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Cai.
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797DCDA61FBB3DF863" bold="true" box="[199,286,1082,1108]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Range.</emphasis>
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(
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: Longquan:
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.
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797DCDA645BB7FF84D" bold="true" box="[199,348,1120,1146]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Host plants.</emphasis>
Unknown.
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797DCDA6A2BB98F896" bold="true" box="[199,443,1159,1185]" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Material examined.</emphasis>
None.
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Cai stated that the
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specimen of
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<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797E0EA68AB9A0F8FF" box="[772,899,1199,1224]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">L. aequata</emphasis>
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is located at the
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Agricultural College (now
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Agricultural University). It was unavailable for this study.
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The aedeagal processes shown in
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illustrations are very unusual in that they arise from near the base of the shaft, close to the connective. They are flat, slender, and acuminate, and twist on their axis at midlength. It is not yet clear how much variation in aedeagal structure occurs within
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; among the specimens directly examined in this analysis, the subapical processes were short and flat (Pl. 16H_2), but illustrations of other described
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species
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shows a range of variation in subapical process expression. Those of the closely related genus
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are situated medially and only somewhat flattened. Auxiliary processes were also observed rising from the base of the aedeagus in
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and
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Evans
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, but those were interpreted to be different structures, the paraphyses; they are thick and medially articulated.
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The phylogenetic independence of
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from
<taxonomicName id="80D34D71FFFD89797E48A47DB9C8FA46" authorityName="Stal, and Evans" authorityYear="1966" box="[834,1003,1624,1649]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Petalocephala" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797E48A47DB9C8FA46" box="[834,1003,1624,1649]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Petalocephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is uncertain. The shape of its head (narrowing in front of eyes), pronotum (shallowly curving between the eyes), and especially its face (unproduced inner margins of antennal pit, long and narrow frontoclypeus without distinct lateral muscle ridges, unproduced lora/genae) are like those of the genera in the
<taxonomicName id="80D34D71FFFD89797EB4A4E9BE44FAD2" authorityName="Stal, and Evans" authorityYear="1966" box="[958,1127,1740,1765]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Petalocephala" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797EB4A4E9BE44FAD2" box="[958,1127,1740,1765]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Petalocephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
genus group. At present, differentiation of
<taxonomicName id="80D34D71FFFD89797C62A4D6BBCAFB3B" authorityName="Cai" authorityYear="1994" box="[360,489,1779,1804]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Laticorona" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797C62A4D6BBCAFB3B" box="[360,489,1779,1804]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Laticorona</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
<taxonomicName id="80D34D71FFFD89797F3EA4D6B8FEFB3B" authorityName="Stal, and Evans" authorityYear="1966" box="[564,733,1779,1804]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Petalocephala" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="43" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">
<emphasis id="75A7EAE0FFFD89797F3EA4D6B8FEFB3B" box="[564,733,1779,1804]" italics="true" pageId="43" pageNumber="44">Petalocephala</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
appears to only be possible by dissection and examination of male genitalia.
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</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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