Mitjaevia Dworakowska, 1970

Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Xiong, Kangning, 2011, Two new species of the genus Mitjaevia Dworakowska from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 2805, pp. 26-30 : 26-27

Mitjaevia Dworakowska, 1970

Mitjaevia Dworakowska, 1970: 763

Type species: Erythroneura amseli Dlabola, 1961

Dorsum yellow, reddish or brown. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown anterior margin slightly produced. Vertex and pronotum usually with numerous dark spots. Eyes pale black or light brown. Scutellum with basal triangles blackish or blackish brown, its apex usually blackish, darker than other areas of scutellum; transverse impression distinct. Forewing semitransparent, brown or light brown, often decorated with white or milky patches. Forewing with four apical cells, 1st apical cell with obviously angulate base; 2nd apical cell nearly quadrate; 3rd apical cell widened distally and 4th one small, about two times as long as wide.

Abdominal apodemes small, not extending beyond posterior margin of 3rd sternite.

Male genitalia: Pygofer lobe sclerotized at base, caudal margin and ventral margin, dorsal margin and elsewhere membranous; with many short microsetae or microtrichia near caudal area; several small microsetae scattered on remaining surface. Pygofer dorsal appensage movably articulated, not extended beyond pygofer apex. Pygofer ventral appendage absent or present. Subgenital plate long, darkly pigmented, gradually curved dorsad, with several slender microsetae at apex and many peg-like short rigid setae at subbase, and with numerous short microsetae along dorsal margin; three or more macrosetae of differing length present in middle of subgenital plate. Style apex slender or truncate and expanded; preapical lobe large. Aedeagus compressed laterally, sometimes, with pair of processes. Aedeagus preatrium about as long as shaft or longer than shaft. Gonopore ventrad. Connective usually with well developed central lobe, sclerotized in its middle line.

Distribution. Palaearctic Region and Oriental Region.

Notes. Mitjaevia is similar to Diomma Motschulsky and Kusala Dworakowska in having the vertex and pronotum usually ornamented with dark spots or stripes; the style apex slender, curved, with the preapical lobe prominent; and the connective with two strong lateral arms; but differs in having the pygofer lobe with many short microsetae or microtrichia near the caudal area and the basal lower angle without a group of long macrosetae; the abdominal apodemes small, not extending beyond the posterior margin of the 3rd sternite; and the forewing semitransparent, brown or light brown, often decorated with white or milky patches, without oblique bright red or orange yellow vittae.