Daochia bicornis, 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 : 2065-2066

Daochia bicornis sp. n. ( Figures 33–38 )

Description

Body length 6.5 mm. Dorsum and face generally yellowish brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15–18 ; eyes dark brown; ocelli red. Fore wing with veins generally red with claval veins yellow-white; a triangular-shaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum and legs yellow-white.

Male genitalia with connective broad. Aedeagus broadly U-shaped in lateral view; shaft very long and narrow, fimbriolate apically on anterior and posterior margin, an elongate laterally serrate process on each side arising near mid-length and extended to slightly distal of shaft apex, slightly curved dorsally and adpressed to shaft.

Type material Holotype: „ ( IRSNB), P. R. China, Yunnan Prov., Meng-La Co. (21.48 ° N, 101.56 ° E), 7

March 1999, river, P. Grootaert.

Etymology

Named after its single pair of aedeagal processes.

Biology

See Introduction.

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by (1) broad connective; (2) broadly U-shaped aedeagus in lateral view; and (3) single pair of lateral aedeagal processes extending beyond shaft.

Figures

Figures 33–38. Daochia bicornis sp. n. (33, 34) Connective and paramere, dorsal and ventral view, respectively. (35, 36) Aedeagus posterior and left lateral view, respectively. (37, 38) Apex of aedeagal shaft, anterior and posterior view, respectively.

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.