Diomma Motschulsky

Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Xiong, Jing, 2011, A new species of the leafhopper genus Diomma Motschulsky (Hemiptera, Cidadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 83, pp. 57-62 : 58

Diomma Motschulsky

Diomma Motschulsky 1863: 102

Type species:

Diomma ochracea Motschulsky, 1863.

Description.

Body yellow or brownish yellow, more or less flattened. Head almost equally broad as pronotum. Crown anterior margin produced medially. Pronotum with width greater than length. Vertex and pronotum usually ornamented with dark spots or stripes. Scutellum small, triangular; transverse impression distinct. Forewing apical veins free or 3rd apical cell stalked; 4th apical cell smallest. Hind venation reduced, submarginal vein poorly developed.

Abdominal apodemes long and narrow.

Pygofer large and broad, with numeous long setae at caudal margin and baso-ventral angle respectively. Subgenital plate extending beyond pygofer, with several microsetae on dorsal margin and with few of long macrosetae on outer surface. Pygofer dorsal appendage with distinct basal suture, but not movably articulated or immovably fused to margin, without basal suture. Central part of style very thick; preapical lobe prominant, sensory pits situated at preapical portion. Aedeagal shaft curved ventrally, usually with a obvious big process between preatrium and base of shaft. Gonopore terminal or subapical. Connective V- or Y-shaped; two lateral arms very long; central lobe absent or vestigial.

Distribution.

Afrotropical region, Australian region, Oriental region.

Key to Chinese species (♂) of the genus Diomma

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