Mukaria Distant

Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2011, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhopper genus Mukaria Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mukariinae) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 2882, pp. 27-34 : 28

Mukaria Distant

Mukaria Distant 1908: 269 ; Li and Chen, 1999: 112. Type species: Mukaria penthimioides Distant, 1908 , by original designated.

Parabolotettix Matsumura 1912: 280. Type species: P. maculatus Matsumura, 1912 , by original designation. Ikomella Ishihara 1961: 253. Type species: I. confersa Ishihara, 1961 , by original designation.

Head and thorax. Vertex ( Figs 1 , 10, 11, 13 , 15–23 ) as long as or shorter than pronotum, subconically anteriorly rounded, more than half as long as breadth between eyes, with anterior and submarginal carinae, disk elevated basally; ocelli on crown, between anterior and submarginal carinae, separated from eyes and closer to anterior margin; eyes long, oblique, extending backward over anterior angles of pronotum; face ( Fig. 14 ) including eyes as long as broad, frontoclypeus transversely impressed across base beneath prominent overhanging anterior edge of head, narrowed towards clypeus; clypellus narrowing apically; lorum broad; pronotum ( Figs 1, 2 , 10–13 , 15–23 ) elevated centrally, arched, anterior margin convexly rounded between eyes, posterior margin slightly concave, lateral margin short; mesonotum and scutellum ( Figs 1, 2 , 10–13 , 15–23 ) triangular, large, broad, basal margin longer than lateral margin, transverse depression slightly curving, short, not reaching lateral margins; forewing ( Figs 3 , 10–12 , 15–23 ) elongate, considerably longer than abdomen, slightly widened posteriorly, with four apical cells, venation obscure except near apex; appendix well developed; hind wing ( Fig. 4 ) with four closed apical cells; hind femur with macrosetal formula 2 + 2 + 1.

Genitalia. Male pygofer ( Fig. 5 ) rather depressed, broad, with macrosetae ventrocaudally, ventral margin with or without stout spinous process; valve ( Fig. 6 ) broad, subtriangular; subgenital plate ( Fig. 6 ) broad and short, often with short macrosetae; style ( Fig. 7 ) broad at base, narrowed at apex; connective ( Fig. 7 ) U-shaped, fused with aedeagus; aedeagus ( Figs 7, 8 ) with paired shafts; female sternite VII ( Fig. 9 ) with hind margin broadly concave.

Host plants. Bamboo [ Neosinocalamus affinis (Rendle) Keng f., Phyllostachys sulphurea (Carr.) A. & C. Riv, Qiongzhuea communis Hsueh & Yi , Cephalostachyum sp., Bambusa multiplex Raeuschel , B. vulgaris Schrad ].

Distribution. Southeastern Palaearctic, Oriental and Oceanic regions ( Fig. 24 ).

Figures

FIGURE 24. Distribution of Mukaria species. M. albinotata (); M. bambusana (); M. confersa (); M. flavida (); M. lii sp. nov. (); M. maculata (); M. nigra (); M. pallipes (); M. penthimioides (); M. splendida (); M. testacea (); M. variabilis (); M. zonata ().

FIGURES 1 – 9. Mukaria lii. (1) Head and thorax, dorsal view; (2) Head and thorax, lateral view; (3) Forewing; (4) Hindwing; (5) male pygofer, dorsal view; (6) Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; (7) aedeagus, connective and styles, dorsal view; (8) aedeagus, caudal view; (9) female sternite VII. Scale bars: = 2 mm (Figs 1, 2, 8); 1 mm (Figs 3, 4); 0.5 mm (Figs 5 – 7, 9).

FIGURES 10 – 14. Mukaria lii. (10) Adult 3, dorsal view; (11) Adult Ƥ, dorsal view; (12) Adult 3, lateral view; (13) Head and thorax, dorsal view; (14) Face.

FIGURES 15 – 23. Dorsal habitus of Mukaria species. (15) M. pallipes (3); (16) M. pallipes (Ƥ); (17) M. flavida (Ƥ); (18) M. maculata (3); (19) M. maculata (Ƥ); (20) M. bambusana (3); (21) M. albinotata (Ƥ); (22) M. testacea (3); (23) M. testacea (Ƥ).