Daochia longshengensis, Wei & Zhang & Webb, 2006

Wei, C., Zhang, Y. - L. & Webb, M. D., 2006, New synonymy in the leafhopper genus Stegelytra Mulsant and Rey and description of a new genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2057-2069 : 2064-2065

Daochia longshengensis sp. n. ( Figures 28–32 )

Description

Body length 7.6 mm. Dorsum generally brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15– 18 ; frontoclypeus with several dark ochre transverse symmetrical marks; anterior part of anteclypeus red; ocelli yellow-white margined red-brown. Fore wing with a triangularshaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin; sternum and legs yellow-white.

Disc of vertex distinctly concave; gena deeply longitudinally sulcate below eye.

Male genitalia with connective broad; anterior margin concave with a short medial projection. Paramere with inner basal apophysis broadly rounded. Aedeagal shaft elongate in lateral view, compressed antero-posteriorly, fimbriolate apically; a long preatrium present with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages basally, the latter serrate apically on anterior surface.

Type material

Holotype: „ ( TNHM), P. R. China: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region : Long-Sheng Co., Tian-Ping-Shan (25.47 ° N, 110.00 ° E), 30 August 1964, Sheng-Li Liu.

Etymology

Named after its type locality.

Biology

Unknown (see Introduction).

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by its aedeagus with a long preatrium with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages arising from its base.

Figures

Figures 28–32. Daochia longshengensis sp. n. (28) Male genital capsule and anal tube, left lateral view. (29) Connective and paramere, dorsal view. (30) Aedeagus, posterior view (in direction of arrow in Figure 31). (31) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (32) Apex of aedeagus, posterior view.

Figures 15–27. Daochia reticulata sp. n. (15) Head and thorax, dorsal view. (16) Face, male. (17) Face, female. (18) Fore wing. (19) Apical part of female abdomen, ventral view. (20) Second valvulae, left lateral view. (21) First valvulae, left lateral view. (22) Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view. (23) Aedeagus, paramere, and connective, dorsal view. (24) Male genital capsule and anal tube, left lateral view. (25) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (26) Aedeagus, posterior view. (27) Detail of antero-ventral corner of male pygofer, lateral view.