Daochia bicornis, 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 : 2065-2066

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601046378

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A08610-C346-FFB7-FF10-FAD7FBA5F966

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scientific name

Daochia bicornis
status

sp. nov.

Daochia bicornis View in CoL sp. n. ( Figures 33–38 View Figures 33–38 )

Description

Body length 6.5 mm. Dorsum and face generally yellowish brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15–18 View Figures 15–27 ; eyes dark brown; ocelli red. Fore wing with veins generally red with claval veins yellow-white; a triangular-shaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum and legs yellow-white.

Male genitalia with connective broad. Aedeagus broadly U-shaped in lateral view; shaft very long and narrow, fimbriolate apically on anterior and posterior margin, an elongate laterally serrate process on each side arising near mid-length and extended to slightly distal of shaft apex, slightly curved dorsally and adpressed to shaft.

Type material Holotype: „ ( IRSNB), P. R. China, Yunnan Prov., Meng-La Co. (21.48 ° N, 101.56 ° E), 7 GoogleMaps

March 1999, river, P. Grootaert.

Etymology

Named after its single pair of aedeagal processes.

Biology

See Introduction.

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by (1) broad connective; (2) broadly U-shaped aedeagus in lateral view; and (3) single pair of lateral aedeagal processes extending beyond shaft.

IRSNB

Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Daochia

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