Qadria Mahmood

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2014, Five new species of Qadria Mahmood (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 439-448 : 439-440

Qadria Mahmood

Qadria Mahmood, 1967: 18

Type species: Empoasca rubronotata Distant, 1918 Spatulostylus Ramakrishnan & Menon, 1973: 16 Type species: Spatulostylus variegatus Ramakrishnan & Menon, 1973

Description. Dorsum yellow or white, with red, orange or brown color pattern. Head as wide or slightly narrower than pronotum. Crown fore margin strongly produced and angulate medially. Vertex unicolorous, sometimes with pale preapical spots or dark submedial lines, often with lateral branch. Pronotum pale or dark medially or with Y- or V-shaped medial vitta. Fore wing usually with orange or reddish spots, or broken oblique vittae.

Male basal abdominal apodemes small to long, rounded apically. Anal tube with paired basolateral processes extended ventrad into genital capsule.

Pygofer lobe rounded or angulate. Pygofer dorsal appendage with line of weakness at base, but not moveable. Macrosetae at basal lower angle of pygofer in distinct group, microtrichia well developed. Subgenital plate widened subbasally, with several basal macrosetae (except in Q. tandojamensis Ahmed , plate reduced, without macrosetae). Style with two pointed apex, preapical lobe prominent. Aedeagus usually with pair of long ventral processes at the base; some species with apical or subapical processes. Preatrium short, dorsal apodeme short or slightly expanded. Connective nearly Y-shaped, median anterior lobe absent, two arms long, stem short or reduced.

Diagnosis. The most important features separating Qadria from related genera are as follows: pygofer dorsal appendage immovably fused to dorsal margin, basolateral setae in distinct group; aedeagus ventral processes placed basally, well separated from shaft, longer than shaft (some individual species without ventral processes, but with apical processes); connective median anterior lobe absent. Style with two pointed apex.

Distribution: Oriental and Southeastern Palearctic regions.