Pedionis Hamilton, 1980

Zhang, Bin, 2010, New species of macropsine leafhopper genus Pedionis Hamilton (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, Zootaxa 2484, pp. 53-60 : 53

Genus Pedionis Hamilton, 1980

Pedionis Hamilton, 1980: 891 .

Type species: Pediopsis garuda Distant, 1916 by original designation.

Diagnosis. Body form short and stout. Face slightly longer than wide, frontoclypeus expanded apically, lora small. Pronotum distinctly declivous, weakly arched, striations oblique. Forewing with 2 or 3 anteapical cells, veins spotted with white. Hind femoral spinulation 2+1. Male pygofer elongate with tiny apical spine or acute tip or caudal margin serrate, dorsal connectives variously armed, articulating against upper margins of pygophore. Aedeagal shaft curved near apex with or without pair of slender processes.

Distribution. Oriental, Australian, Palaearctic.