Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb, 2019

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, Zootaxa 5474 (3), pp. 259-270 : 263-266

Genus Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb

Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb, 2019: 20 .

Mukariella Ramaiah, Meshram & Dey, 2023 .

Type species: Mukariella daii Viraktamath & Webb, 2019 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. External characters as in generic description of Viraktamath & Webb (2019).

Remarks. The genus can be identified by the following characteristics. Medium sized body, mostly black or tawny. Width of head including eyes is narrow to width of pronotum, the anterior margin of the crown extends foreward, with three marginal ridges, crown seam obvious. Face including eyes broader than long, horizontal, flat in lateral view; frontoclypeus gradually narrowed; lorum long and narrow. Pronotum longer than crown, posterior margin slightly concave, anterior margin convex. Forewings yellow or black, with 3 subapical cells. Male pygofer is wide at base, tipped with setae, ventral margin with or without protuberance. Valve triangular. Subgenital plates with a few hair-like setae, trapezoidal with or without apical membranous appendage. Distal apophysis of style with or without dentate prominences, tapered distally and sculptured ventrally. Connective and aedeagus fused. Aedeagus shaft tubular with apical large gonopore, with or without protrusions in subterminal.

Distributions. China, India.

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