Paracyba Vilbaste, 1968

Zhou, Xian, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, New leafhopper species and new records of Typhlocybini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 1082, pp. 135-151 : 135

Paracyba Vilbaste

Paracyba Vilbaste, 1968: 96; Dworakowska 1982: 148, figs 602-621.

Type species.

Zygina akashiensis Takahashi, 1928.

Remarks.

Until now, the genus Paracyba included three known species, including two species from China. Here we add a new species from China and give a key to all species of the genus.

Diagnosis.

Body slim. Head bluntly produced, middle length equal to or shorter than width between eyes, coronal suture long and distinct. Forewing laterally with apex rounded; RP and MP’ petiolate at base; 1st apical cell nearly equal in size to 4th apical cell; 2nd apical cell biggest. Hind wing with two cross veins.

Male sternal abdominal apodemes extending to distal margin of 4th sternite.

Male genitalia. Pygofer side tall and divided into two or three small lobes caudally, upper lobe and central lobe with short rigid setae terminally, lower lobe deeply contracted, usually with long macrosetae. Subgenital plate elongate, triangular with a row of short fine setae subbasally to apex, with indistinct peg-like setae at apex. Paramere with basal part slim and central part broad, thereafter gradually tapered to apex, with a row of microsetae on outer margin. Connective trapezoidal. Aedeagus with short preatrium; dorsal apodeme well developed bifurcate apically; aedeagal shaft usually short with long and asymmetrical processes apically; gonopore apical.

Distribution.

Oriental and Palaearctic regions.