Minionia Luo & Huang, 2025

Luo, Yixiao, Kang, Juxia, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2025, Descriptions of new taxa and records of the microleafhopper tribe Alebrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 5706 (4), pp. 551-570 : 556-557

Genus Minionia Luo & Huang gen. nov.

Type species. Minionia stellicauda Luo & Huang sp. nov.

Description. Head slightly narrower than pronotum. Crown with anterior margin bluntly rounded; median length less than interocular width. Pronotum with posterior margin slightly curved; median length of pronotum longer than crown median length. Forewing with appendix extending around wing apex to 2nd apical cell; 1st apical cell long; 2nd apical cell broader at apex; 3rd apical cell thin and oblique; 4th apical cell small triangular. Hind wing infuscate with submarginal vein confluent with vein RP.

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 3rd sternite. Pygofer side with posterior margin concave. Subgenital plate exceeding posterior margin of pygofer, with row of macrosetae medially. Paramere short. Aedeagus with shaft short and curved.

Distribution. Oriental Region.

Etymology. The generic name comes from the characters “minions” of the movie “Despicable Me”, referring to the yellow color and single black spot on the head of the new genus resembling the single eye of the minions.

Gender. Feminine.

Note. This genus is similar to Sobrala Dworakowska, 1977 in body shape and venation of forewing, but the new genus has the hind wing submarginal vein confluent with vein RP, and the subgenital plate with macrosetae.