Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994

Song, Yuehua & Li, Zizhong, 2009, First record of the leafhopper genus Rufitidia Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 2306, pp. 66-68 : 66

Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994

Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994 Folia Entomol. Hungarica. 55: 121 Type species: Rufitidia trinotata Dworakowska, 1994

Body dorsum yellow or white. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown anterior margin subparallel to posterior margin. Vertex anterior margin slightly produced medially, with pair of dark preapical spots and large median apical spot, midline dark. Pronotum broad, middle length longer than that of vertex, usually with obvious dark markings near lateral margins; centre and hind margin feebly dark, contrasting with adjacent areas. Scutellum pale, approximately triangular; basal triangles and apex dark; transverse impression straight or slightly arcuate, with pair of small rounded dark spots anterad of it. Face with lateral frontal sutures complete, slightly convergent near border to vertex, anteclypeus inflated and broad, nearly pentagonal. Forewing without distinct markings or patterns, somewhat darkened in a few areas; 1st apical cell tapering, 2nd nearly quadrate, 3rd widened distally and 4th about two times as long as wide.

Abdominal apodemes large or not well developed.

Male genitalia: Pygofer dorsal appendages simple, rigidly attached, not extended beyond pygofer apex. Pygofer lobe elongated, well integrated, only dorsal part detectable owing to sclerotized ledges. Setosity on lateral surface consisting of large group of small microsetae dorsad of ventro-cephalic angle of the lobe, and few similar microsetae scattered caudally. Subgenital plate elongated, exceeding distal margin of pygofer, tubular and narrowing in apical part; without marginal subbasal setae or setae poorly developed, but with several macrosetae on lateral surface near apex. Style slender, acuminate at both ends; preapical lobe small. Aedeagal shaft with pair of bifurcate basal processes, distal processes present or absent, dorsal apodeme reduced; gonopore ventral. Connective Y-shaped, central lobe between two arms poorly developed or absent.

Distribution: Sikkim (Rumtek); China (Guizhou).