Mukaria Distant, 1908

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, Zootaxa 5474 (3), pp. 259-270 : 260-261

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13768427

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scientific name

Mukaria Distant
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Genus Mukaria Distant View in CoL

Mukaria Distant 1908: 269 View in CoL .

Parabolotettix Matsumura 1912: 280 View in CoL . Type species: Parabolotettix maculatus Matsumura, 1912 View in CoL by monotypy. Synonymy by Evans 1947: 178.

Ikomella Ishihara 1961: 252–253 View in CoL . Type species: Ikomella confersa Ishihara, 1961 View in CoL , by original designation. Synonymy by Linnavuori 1979: 985.

Mukaria Viraktamath & Webb, 2019 View in CoL .

Type species: Mukaria penthimioides Distant, 1908 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. External characters as in generic description of Viraktamath & Webb (2019) and Yao et al. (2019).

Remarks. The genus can be identified by the following characteristics. Medium sized body, mostly black and often glossy. Width of head including eyes narrower than width of pronotum, anterior margin of the crown arcuate, with two marginal ridges. Face including eyes wider than long, upper part of face tumid in lateral view, frontoclypeus flat, horizontal at the base, lorum short and wide. Pronotum transversely broad, surface slightly wrinkled. Forewing often with yellow or white or transparent patch, with 3 subapical cells and 4 apical cells. Male pygofer wide at base, tipped with setae, ventral margin protruding in various forms. Valve subtrapezoidal or triangular, subgenital plate with irregular setae. Subterminal process of style well-developed, terminal process short and coarse, surface sculptured. Connective and aedeagus fused, aedeagus with two shafts and two gonopores each with processes near apical gonopore.

Distributions. China, India, Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Myanmar, Japan.

Descriptions

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Loc

Mukaria Distant

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng 2024
2024
Loc

Ikomella

Ishihara, T. 1961: 253
1961
Loc

Parabolotettix

Matsumura, S. 1912: 280
1912
Loc

Mukaria

Distant, W. L. 1908: 269
1908
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