Tautoneura Anufriev, 1969

Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Xiong, Jing, 2011, Three new species of the leafhopper genus Tautoneura Anufriev (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 83, pp. 63-72 : 64-65

Tautoneura Anufriev, 1969

Tautoneura Anufriev 1969: 186-188

Erythroneura (Balia) Dworakowska, 1970 ( Dworakowska 1977: 290)

Erythroneura (Havelia) Ahmed, 1971 ( Dworakowska 1977: 290; Dworakowska 1980: 182)

Type species:

Tautoneura tricolor Anufriev, 1969

Description.

Body small, about 2.0-3.0 mm, usually yellow or light yellow. Head bluntly produced medially, slightly narrower than pronotum or equal to greatest width of pronotum. Median length of vertex equal to or longer than length between eyes. Some species with more rounded anterior margin of vertex. Pronotum broad, often with irregular patches or spots; scutellum nearly triangular. Forewings usually with red markings or spots.

Pygofer lobe broad, usually with several macrosetae at basal lower angle and some short stout setae in distal part of lobe on inner surface, peg-like. Dorsal appendage of pygofer long, tapering apically, movably articulated with pygofer lobe. Some species have ventral appendage. Aedeagus usually with large dorsal apodeme and one or two pairs of processes of variable length at apex of shaft. Style slender, with slim “neck” subapically, and prominent preapical lobe. Connective nearly M- or Y-shaped, central lobe well developed, as long as or little shorter than lateral arms. Shape of anal tube appendage diverse, but that of most species hook-like at apex.

Distribution.

Palaearctic and Oriental Regions.

Key to males of Tautoneura from China

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