Purohita Distant, 1906

Li, Hong-Xing, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2019, Two new species of the bamboo-feeding planthopper genus Purohita Distant from China (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Delphacidae), ZooKeys 855, pp. 85-94 : 87

Purohita Distant, 1906

Purohita Distant, 1906: 470; Ishihara 1949: 86; Tian 1983: 43; Yang and Yang 1986: 64; Ding 2006: 201.

Type species.

Purohita cervina Distant, 1906, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Head including eyes narrower than pronotum. Vertex narrow, quadrate, slightly extending in front of eyes; lateral carinae strongly ridged, foliate, prominent anteriorly, submedian carinae transverse, median carina obsolete. Frons in middle line longer than wide at widest part about 1.5-2.3: 1, lateral margins divergent apically, median carina forked near base. Postclypeus tricarinate. Antennae very large, first segment flattened, rectangular, longer in middle line than widest part about 2.9-3.3: 1, with central ridge distinct, surface on each side of central ridge obliquely reclined, second segment much shorter than the first about 1: 1.4-2.5. Eyes in dorsal view with lateral side emarginate medially distinctly. Ocelli distinct. Pronotum short, scarcely longer than vertex, tricarinate, lateral carinae attaining hind margin. Mesonotum longer than vertex and pronotum together, tricarinate. Spinal formula of hind leg 5-6-4 or 5-7-4. Wings with M and Cu1 fused except very short portion at base.

Anal segment large, broad, dorsum flattened and lateroapical angles without process. Pygofer slightly compressed laterally, medioventral processes present or absent. Aedeagus with phallus relative long, phallobase process arising from base, directed ventrad, blunt oval or forked at apex. Diaphragm and lateral areas membranous. Without sclerotized margin of opening of genital styles. Seventh abdominal sternite of female present or absent, genital styles narrow and slender, simple.

Plant associations.

Bamboo.

Distribution.

Oriental region.

Key to species (males) of Purohita from China (modified from Ding 2006)