Caknesia Dworakowska

Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2006, First report on the leafhopper genus Caknesia Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Typhlocybini) from China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 1223, pp. 65-68 : 65-66

Caknesia Dworakowska

Caknesia Dworakowska 1994: 135

Type species: Caknesia wajha Dworakowska Description

Brown or blackish brown, with distinct color pattern on upper side of the body. Hindwing membrane fuscous darkest in c and r cell

Body slim. Face broad, lateral frontal sutures incomplete, ocelli present or vestigial. Head nearly as wide as pronotum, crown length about 1/2 pronotal length. Coronal suture distinct, exceeding half length of crown. Forewing slightly broadened subapically, occupying more than 1/3 of whole wing; 1st apical cell smallest, 2nd largest, 3rd stalked, with petiole about 1/3 length to MP; clavus with two anal veins distinct. Hindwing with three transverse veins.

Abdominal apodemes not exceeding 5th sternite.

Male genitalia: Genital capsule cylindrical. Pygofer lobe with numerous long, fine microsetae, mostly on ventral part and centrally, and several small rigid microsetae on posterior margin; posterior margin lamellate with sclerotized extension bent mesad. Subgenital plate well pigmented, adorned with sculpture of large scales; setosity consisting of one macroseta near base, row of small fine microsetae over distal 2/3 length centrally and several others laterobasally conjoining with a row of small, rigid setae around apex; Connective small, lamellate. Paramere slender, with row of setae on outer margin and row of sensory pits on inner margin near base of caudal part. Aedeagus large, with prominent dorsal apodeme, broad atrium, tubular stem, paired processes and gonopore terminal.

Distribution

SW China (Sichuan), India (Sikkim).