Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994

Zou, Hongfen, Lin, Shuanghu, Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Rufitidia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5190 (3), pp. 419-424 : 419-420

Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994

Rufitidia Dworakowska, 1994: 121 ; Song & Li, 2009: 66

Type species: Rufitidia trinotata Dworakowska, 1994

Description. Body medium sized and light yellowish brown. Crown anterior margin subparallel to posterior margin, slightly produced medially, with pair of dark preapical spots and large median apical spot. Coronal suture distinct. Face broad, lateral frontal sutures complete, slightly convergent near border to vertex, anteclypeus inflated and broad, nearly pentagonal. Pronotum broad, middle length longer than that of vertex, usually with obvious dark markings near lateral margins. Scutellum pale yellow, basal triangles and apex dark, with two light brown small circular spots above the scutoscutellar sulcus. Forewing semitransparent, with first apical cell tapering, second nearly quadrate, third widened distally and fourth about two times as long as wide; hind wing venation as usual for Erythroneurini .

Abdominal apodemes large or not well-developed.

Genital capsule cylindrical. Pygofer lobe elongated, with posterior margin arc-shaped, setae on lateral surface consisting of large group of small microsetae dorsad of ventro-cephalic angle of lobe, and few similar microsetae scattered caudally. Pygofer dorsal appendage simple, rigidly attached, not extended beyond pygofer apex. Subgenital plate exceeding caudal margin of pygofer, tubular and narrowing in apical part, with several macrosetae on lateral surface near apex. Anal tube appendage present. Style slender, acuminate at both ends; preapical lobe small. Aedeagal shaft tubular or flat, with one or more pairs of processes; gonopore ventral. Connective Y-shaped, with reduced central lobe.

Distribution: Sikkim (Rumtek); China (Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Fujian).

Checklist of Rufitidia species

R. trinotata Dworakowska, 1994: 121 , Figs 445–461. India

R. forficata Song & Li, 2009: 67 , Figs 1 –11. China (Hunan, Guizhou)

R. fissa Zou & Zhang sp. nov. China (Yunnan)

R. dissidens Lin & Zhang sp. nov. China (Fujian)

Key to males of Rufitidia

1. Aedeagal shaft tubular, with only one pair of bifurcate processes........................................ R. forficata Aedeagal shaft flat, with more than one pair of processes...................................................... 2

2. Aedeagal shaft with one process on ventral side ( Figs 2g, h, i )...................................... R. fissa sp. nov. Aedeagal shaft without process on ventral side.............................................................. 3

3. Aedeagal shaft dentate at edge in lateral view ( Figs 3g, h )...................................... R. dissidens sp. nov. Aedeagal shaft not dentate at edge in lateral view.................................................... R. trinotata

Figures

FIGURE 1. a–d. R. fissa Zou & Zhang sp. nov. e–h. R. dissidens Lin & Zhang sp. nov. a, c, e, g. dorsal view; b, f. lateral view; d, h. face.

FIGURE 2. R. fissa Zou & Zhang sp. nov. a. male genital capsule; b. abdominal apodemes; c. pygofer dorsal appendage; d. connective; e. style, ventral view; f. style, lateral view; g. aedeagus, ventral view; h. aedeagus, lateral view; i. apex of aedeagal shaft, lateral view.

FIGURE 3. R. dissidens Lin & Zhang sp. nov. a. male genital capsule; b. abdominal apodemes; c. pygofer dorsal appendage; d. connective; e. style, ventral view; f. style, lateral view; g. aedeagus, ventral view; h. aedeagus, lateral view.