Symplanella Fennah, 1987

Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2014, Three new bamboo-feeding species of the genus Symplanella Fennah (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Caliscelidae) from China, ZooKeys 408, pp. 19-30 : 20-21

Symplanella Fennah, 1987 Figs 1-36

Symplanella Fennah, 1987: 244; Zhang and Wang 2009: 176.

Type species.

Symplanella breviceps Fennah, 1987, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Vertex (Figs 3, 15, 27) with anterior margin angular or rounded, posterior margin angulately concave, disc distinctly depressed, without median carina. Frons (Figs 5, 17, 29) with median carina and submedian carinae, longer in middle line than widest part, widest at level of second segment of antennae. Clypeus with median carina. Pronotum as broad as or broader than head including eyes; lateral carinae strongly diverging laterad. Mesonotum without carina, almost twice as broad as long. Forewing (Fig. 6) long and narrow, 4.00-4.71 times as long as broad; Sc+R and M united in basal fifth, Sc+R forking close to nodal transverse line; three or four subapical cells and seven to nine apical cells; M with three or four branches. Hindwing broad triangular, venation as shown in Fig. 7. Post-tibia with one spine laterally, six apically; basal and second metatarsal segments toothless and ventrally pilose. Abdomen exceptionally elongate, narrow sternites chevron-shaped. Genital styles narrow and long or short and oval. Aedeagus fused with connective, both forming V-shaped or Y-shaped; aedeagal shaft long, simple, phallobase slender lobe-like or reduced.

Distribution.

Oriental Region (China and Burma).

Checklist of species of Symplanella Fennah, 1987

Symplanella brevicephala (Chou, Yuan & Wang, 1994); China (Yunnan).

Symplanella breviceps Fennah, 1987; Burma (Dawna Hills).

Symplanella hainanensis sp. n.; China (Hainan).

Symplanella recurvata sp. n.; China (Guangdong and Guangxi).

Symplanella unipuncta Zhang & Wang, 2009; China (Hainan).

Symplanella zhongtua sp. n.; China (Yunnan)

Key to species of genus Symplanella (male)