Sarimodes Matsumura, 1916

Meng, Rui & Wang, Yinglun, 2016, Descriptions of new species of the genera Sarima Melichar and Sarimodes Matsumura from southern China (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Issidae), ZooKeys 557, pp. 93-109 : 99

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Issidae

Sarimodes Matsumura, 1916

Sarimodes Matsumura, 1916: 115. Type species: Sarimodes taimokko Matsumura, 1916.

Paravindilis Yang, 1994: 94 (in Chan and Yang 1994). Type species: Paravindilis taiwana Yang, 1994. Synonymised by Gnezdilov and Hayashi 2013.

Diagnostic characters.

The distinctive characters used by Matsumura (1916) are modified as follows.

Head with eyes slightly narrower than pronotum. Vertex hexagonal, all margins ridged, with weak median carina, disc moderately depressed (Figs 17, 33). Frons slightly longer than wide, upper margin distinctly concave, lateral margins ridged and diverging to below level of antennae thence incurved to frontoclypeal suture, disc convex in upper half, with a row of submarginal tubercules laterally, with short median carina, sublateral carina indistinct (Figs 18, 34). Ocelli present. Frontoclypeal suture arcuately curved upward (Figs 18, 34). Clypeus with disc slightly convex. Rostrum reaching post-trochanter. Pronotum almost as long as vertex, with anterior margin acutely convex, posterior margin nearly straight, median carina present, with two central pits (Figs 17, 33). Mesonotum moderately shorter than pronotum and vertex combined in middle line, with three carinae (Figs 17, 33). Tegmen without hypocostal plate, costal margin convex near basal one-fourth of tegmen, narrowing to obtuse apical margin, longitudinal veins distinctly prominent and transverse veins relatively weak, ScP+R forking near basal cell, ScP just reaching or a little beyond midlength of tegmen, MP forked near distal one-third of tegmen, MP1 bifurcate near apex, CuA forked near middle, almost at the same point as the union of claval veins; clavus almost extended to apical margin (Figs 19, 35). Hind wing well developed, trilobed, veins R, M, CuP, Pcu, A1 and A2 simple, CuA bifurcate, CuA2 and CuP fused and thickened (Figs 20, 36). Hind tibia with two lateral teeth and seven spines apically.

Male terminalia. Anal segment relatively long, anus stubbed, located near base of anal segment (Figs 25, 37). Pygofer in lateral view with hind margin oblique, produced near ventral margin (Figs 22, 38). Phallobase with dorsolateral lobe bearing a pair of strong and long processes near apex, directing cephalad, ventral lobe separate from dorsolateral lobe at base, narrowing to apex; aedeagus with a pair of long hooks at middle (Figs 23, 24, 40, 41).

Distribution.

China (Taiwan, Hainan)