Saigona Matsumura, 1910

Zheng, Yan-Li, Bourgoin, Thierry, Chen 1, Lin YangXiang-Sheng, Luo, Xu-Qiang & Luo, Guang-Jie, 2021, Two new species of the genus Saigona Matsumura (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Dictyopharidae) from China, ZooKeys 1054, pp. 185-200 : 185

Genus Saigona Matsumura, 1910

Type species.

Dictyophora [sic] ishidae Matsumura, 1905 [= Almana ussuriensis Lethierry, 1878], by subsequent designation of Melichar (1912: 50).

Neoputala Distant, 1914: 412; Metcalf 1946: 78. Type species: Neoputala lewisi Distant, 1906 (by monotypy) [not Neoputala capitata Distant, 1914, as stated by Liang (2001: 236)], synonymised by Liang (2001: 236).

Leprota Melichar, 1912: 91; Metcalf 1946: 74. Type species: Dictyophora [sic] Saigona fulgoroides Walker, 1858, by original designation and monotypy. synonymized by Liang and Song (2006: 28).

Piela Lallemand, 1942: 72. Type species: Piela singularis Lallemand, 1942, by original designation and monotypy. synonymized by Liang and Song (2006): 28.

Orodictya Kirkaldy, 1913: 16. Type species: Orodictya monticola Kirkaldy, 1913; by original designation. Synonymized by Emeljanov (2011: 1144).

Leprota Melichar, 1912: 91. Type species: Leprota melichari Fennah, 1963; status revivisco according to Song et al. (2012: 218).

Saigona Matsumura, 1910: 110; Melichar 1912: 28, 50; Metcalf 1946: 47; Nast 1972: 84; Chou et al. 1985: 63; Anufriev and Emeljanov 1988: 482; Emeljanov 1993: 70; Liang 2001: 235; S. Matsumura 1941: 163; Liang and Song 2006: 28; Zheng and Chen 2011: 542; Zheng et al. 2014; Song et al. 2016: 350, 2018: 3.

Diagnosis.

This species can be distinguished from other dictyopharid planthoppers by the combination of the following diagnostic characters: (1) general color ochraceous or fuscous; (2) vertex and most of genae marked with numerous yellowish or pale brown speckles; (3) cephalic process relatively broad and long; (4) vertex with median longitudinal carina obsolete, posterior region obviously higher than pronotum; (5) legs moderately long, fore femur with a short and blunt spine near apex; hind tibiae with 5 or 6 lateral black-tipped spines and 8 apical black-tipped teeth, spinal formula 8/(9-12)/(9-12); (6) aedeagus with a pair of phallobasal conjunctival processes apically and phallobase sclerotized and pigmented, with two membranous lobes apically.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jilin, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Gansu, Guizhou); Indo-China; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu); Russia (Primorye, Far East); Korea (South).