Daochia fyanensis, Wei & Zhang & Webb, 2006

Wei, C., Zhang, Y. - L. & Webb, M. D., 2006, New synonymy in the leafhopper genus Stegelytra Mulsant and Rey and description of a new genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2057-2069 : 2067-2068

Daochia fyanensis sp. n. ( Figures 39–44 )

Description

Body length 7 mm. Dorsum and face generally yellow-brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15–18 ; anterior part of anteclypeus and lateral margin of postclypeus and gena red; eyes dark brown; ocelli red. Fore wing with veins generally red; a triangular-shaped whitish patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum and legs yellow-white, posterior tibia darker.

Male genitalia with connective narrow. Aedeagus with shaft moderately long and narrow, laterally compressed, fimbriolate apically on posterior margin; a laterally broad basal process on each side, slightly expanded distally in posterior view and a narrower slightly shorter and more posterior process on each side, both pair of processes slightly divergent in posterior view and following curve of shaft in lateral view.

Type material

Holotype: „ ( BPBM). Vietnam: Fyan (11.88 ° N, 21.20 ° E), 1200 m, 11 July to 9 August 1961, N. R. Spencer.

Other material. The following two specimens ( BMNH and BPBM, respectively) may be this species: Vietnam: Tam Dao Mts (21.45 ° N, 105.64 ° E), 10 August and 5 September

1993, V. Novotny (abdomen missing); Dalat, 6 km. S (11.1 ° N, 108.1 ° E), 1400–1500 m., 9 June to 7 July 1961, N. R. Spencer.

Etymology

Named after its type locality.

Biology

Unknown (see Introduction).

Remarks

This species is similar to bicornis but can be distinguished by (1) shaft more laterally compressed; (2) anterior processes of aedeagus longer; and (3) posterior processes of aedeagus shorter.

Figures

Figures 39–44. Daochia fyanensis sp. n. (39) Antero-ventral area of male pygofer, left lateral view. (40) Posterodorsal area of male pygofer and anal tube, left lateral view. (41, 42) Aedeagus, posterior and left lateral view, respectively. (43) Connective and paramere, dorsal (left side) and ventral (right side) view. (44) Male pygofer and anal tube, dorsal view.

Figures 15–27. Daochia reticulata sp. n. (15) Head and thorax, dorsal view. (16) Face, male. (17) Face, female. (18) Fore wing. (19) Apical part of female abdomen, ventral view. (20) Second valvulae, left lateral view. (21) First valvulae, left lateral view. (22) Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view. (23) Aedeagus, paramere, and connective, dorsal view. (24) Male genital capsule and anal tube, left lateral view. (25) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (26) Aedeagus, posterior view. (27) Detail of antero-ventral corner of male pygofer, lateral view.