Zyginella Loew

Song, Yuehua & Li, Zizhong, 2012, Description of a new species of the leafhopper genus Zyginella Loew from Southwest China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), ZooKeys 168, pp. 13-17 : 13

Zyginella Loew

Zyginella Löw, 1885: 346; Dworakowska 1969: 433, 1970: 707, 1974: 161, 1977: 24; Chiang et al. 1988: 109; Zhang 1990: 170. Type species: Zyginella pulchra Löw, 1885.

Pyramidotettix Matsumura, 1932: 59; Dworakowska 1970: 707; Chiang et al. 1988: 109; Yang 1965: 197. Type species: Conometopius citri Matsumura, 1907. Synonymized by Dworakowska 1970: 707.

Remmia Vilbaste, 1968: 91; Dworakowska 1970: 707; Chiang et al. 1988: 109. Type species: Remmia orbigera Vilbaste, 1968. Synonymized by Dworakowska 1970: 707.

Description.

Forewing (Fig. 3) with distinct dark spot on 3rd apical cell.

Head (Fig. 1) acutely produced medially, about as wide as greatest width of pronotum; coronal suture prominent. Forewing (Fig. 3) with 1st apical cell short. Hind wing (Fig. 11) with submarginal vein confluent with Cu1 markedly distad of point of fusion of Cu1 with M3+4.

Male pygofer (Fig. 5) with short process on lateroventral margin and numerous long macrosetae on posterodorsal surface. Subgenital plate usually forming a pocket-like structure at tip or tapering towards apex (Fig. 6). Style (Fig. 7) broadened and truncate at base. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 8, 9) usually curved dorsally; preatrium long or short; dorsal apodeme narrow. Connective (Fig. 10) V- or Y-shaped; lateral arms long; central lobe absent.

Distribution.

Oriental region, Palaearctic region, Afrotropical region.

Key to Chinese species of the genus Zyginella

(males only couplets 5-7)