Thagria conica Zhang

Fan, Zhi-Hua, Li, Zi-Zhong & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Thagria Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from Guangxi, China, Zootaxa 3918 (4), pp. 451-491 : 459

Thagria conica Zhang

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Thagria conica Zhang 1990: 98 , Fig. 96; Li & Wang 1991: 122; Li 1993: 31; Zhang 1994: 22 –23, Fig. 14, original; Nielson 2013: 84

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Hainan).

Material examined. 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Fanjingshan, 8 Aug. 1994, coll. Chen Xiangsheng; 8 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Shiqian, Fodingshan, 17 Aug. 1994, coll. Chen Xiangsheng; 3 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Fanjingshan, 28 July 2001, coll. Li Zizhong; 2 ♂, CHINA: Hunan, Zhangjiajie, 9 Aug. 2001, coll. Chen Xiangsheng; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Leigongshan, 15–16 Sep. 2005, coll. Li Zizhong & Zhang Bin; 1 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Datian, 24 July 2008, coll. Li Hongrong; 2 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Diaoluoshan, 10 April 2009, coll. Yang Zaihua; 1 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Bawangling, 27 April 2009, coll. Jiang Xiaohong; 4 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Fanjingshan, 21–25 Sep. 2011, coll. Fan Zhihua, Zheng Weibin & Long Jiankun; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 13 April 2012, coll. Zheng Weibin; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 8 May 2012, coll. Li Hu; 1 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Limushan, 30 March 2013, coll. Long Jiankun; 2 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Bawangling, 13 April 2014, coll. Yang Weicheng; 3 ♂, CHINA: Hainan, Jianfengling, 22–23 April 2014, coll. Yang Weicheng & Long Jiankun; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 4 May 2014, coll. Wu Yunfei ( GUGC).

Remarks. This species was described from the holotype (male) from NWAFU (Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China). It is similar to T. philagroides (Jacobi, 1914) in external morphology, but can be separated by the long, glabrous ventral processes of segment X ( Fig. 54) and by the slender style with two processes apically ( Fig. 57). In T. philagroides the ventral processes of segment X each have a small spine apically ( Fig. 207) and the style has three or four processes ( Figs. 209, 211–213; Nielson 1977: 36, Fig. 79).