Comahadina Huang and Zhang

Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, A new leafhopper genus Comahadina Huang and Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) and a key to genera of Eupteryx - complex, Zootaxa 2353, pp. 65-68 : 66

Comahadina Huang and Zhang gen.nov.

Type species: Comahadina angelica sp. nov.

Description. Body somewhat robust. Head slightly narrower than pronotum; vertex rounded to face which is swollen anteriorly; coronal suture visible. Forewing semitransparent, area of apical cells less than 1/3 of wing length; hindwing transparent with cross vein between R and M apically.

Abdominal apodemes large.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule cylindrical. Pygofer lobe with dense setae near ventral margin. Subgenital plate gradually narrowed towards apex, apical 2/3 of outer margin with row of microsetae, several macrosetae near middle of outer margin. Paramere long, caudal part with a row of microsetae on outer margin and a row of sensorial pits on inner margin. Connective slim. Aedeagus with short preatrium and developed dorsal apodeme; shaft tubular, mildly curved and desclerotized terminally, with paired subapical processes; gonopore subapical.

Etymology. The new genus name is derived from the Latin “coma” which refers to the densely grouped setae on pygofer lobe. The gender is feminine.

Notes. This new genus externally resembles some members of the nominate subgenus of Eurhadina Haupt but occupies only Oriental Region. The following characters distinguish the new genus from Eurhadina : 1) hind wing with crossvein connecting CuA and ambient vein more apical than the crossvein connecting CuA and MP; 2) pygofer lobe more consolidated and not lobed and sclerotized distinticly, and with setae strongly differentiated into dense groups; 3) aedeagus with large semimembranous apex.

Distribution. Oriental Region (East and South of China).