Aconurella diplachnis Emeljanov

Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, A taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Aconurella Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from China with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 3397, pp. 28-44 : 35-36

Aconurella diplachnis Emeljanov

( Figure 5 , Plate IV)

Aconurella diplachnis Emeljanov, 1964: 626 ; Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 237, Figs 171: 10–15; Li, Dai & Xing, 2011: 26, Yunnan.

Length. Male: 1.7–2.8mm; female: 2.7–3.6mm.

Greenish-ochraceous (Plate IV: A–C). Vertex with black small spot on anterior margin and often with 2 lateral spots fusing with darkening of frontoclypeus, middle part of vertex often dimly darkened (Plate IV: D–F). Frontoclypeus with transverse stripes or completely darkened (Plate IV: G). Forewing macropterous (Plate IV: A–C). Male genitalia. The darkly sclerotized part of pygofer side on posteroventral margin more than half its length, with 3–4 long spines, the spines distributed throughout this dark area, dorsoapical margin with many spinules ( Figs 5 A, 5B); connective with arms close together distally ( Fig. 5 E); aedeagus shaft gently curved dorsally ( Fig. 5 F). Female. Sternite VII as shown in Plate IV: I.

Material examined. China: Beijing City: 33, Wofo Temple, 11.vi.1974, coll. Yang Jikun ( CAU); 33, Wofo Temple, 11.vi.1974, coll. Li Fasheng ( CAU); Hebei Prov.: 1Ƥ, Weichan County, Jiangjiadian, 12.viii.2006 ( NWAFU); Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: 13, Mt. Helan, 1600m, 29.vii.2010, coll. Zhang Xinmin ( NWAFU); Liaoning Prov.: 20Ƥ, Mt. Yiwulushan, 14.vii.2006, coll. Zhang Xinmin ( NWAFU); Jilin Prov.: 83, 30Ƥ, Antu County, Erdaobaihe Town, 24.vii.2006, coll. Li Ping ( NWAFU).

Host. Cleistogenes squarrosa (Trin.) Keng ( Anufriev & Emeljanov, 1988: 237) .

Distribution. China (Beijing, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Yunnan); Mongolia; the former Soviet Union ( Russia).

Figures

FIGURE 5. Aconurella diplachnis Emeljanov. A: male pygofer side, lateral view; B: the darkly sclerotized part of male pygofer side; C: valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; D: style, dorsal view; E: connective, dorsal view; F: aedeagus, lateral view.