Daochia longshengensis, 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 : 2064-2065

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601046378

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A08610-C345-FFB6-FFE7-FB53FCE6FAC0

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scientific name

Daochia longshengensis
status

sp. nov.

Daochia longshengensis View in CoL sp. n. ( Figures 28–32 View Figures 28–32 )

Description

Body length 7.6 mm. Dorsum generally brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15– 18 View Figures 15–27 ; frontoclypeus with several dark ochre transverse symmetrical marks; anterior part of anteclypeus red; ocelli yellow-white margined red-brown. Fore wing with a triangularshaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin; sternum and legs yellow-white.

Disc of vertex distinctly concave; gena deeply longitudinally sulcate below eye.

Male genitalia with connective broad; anterior margin concave with a short medial projection. Paramere with inner basal apophysis broadly rounded. Aedeagal shaft elongate in lateral view, compressed antero-posteriorly, fimbriolate apically; a long preatrium present with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages basally, the latter serrate apically on anterior surface.

Type material

Holotype: „ ( TNHM), P. R. China: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region : Long-Sheng Co., Tian-Ping-Shan (25.47 ° N, 110.00 ° E), 30 August 1964, Sheng-Li Liu. GoogleMaps

Etymology

Named after its type locality.

Biology

Unknown (see Introduction).

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by its aedeagus with a long preatrium with a pair of short and a pair of long lateral appendages arising from its base.

TNHM

University of Texas

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Daochia

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