Kakuna Matsumura, 1935

Ren, Feng-Juan, Xie, Qi, Qiao, Li & Qin, Dao-zheng, 2014, Kakunataibaiensis sp. n. and a newly recorded species of Dicranotropis (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Delphacidae) from China, ZooKeys 444, pp. 119-130 : 120-121

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.444.7810

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

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scientific name

Kakuna Matsumura, 1935
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Delphacidae

Kakuna Matsumura, 1935 View in CoL

Kakuna Matsumura 1935: 76; Ding 2006: 404; Chen and Yang 2010: 30. Type species: Kakuna kuwayamai Matsumura, 1935, by original designation.

Parametopina Yang 1989: 308. Type species: Parametopina yushaniae Yang 1989: 308, synonymized by Ding 2006: 404.

Diagnosis.

Relatively large, brown delphacids. Head including eyes narrower than pronotum. Submedian carinae uniting at apex of vertex. Fastigium in lateral view rounded. Dorsum of body with a milky longitudinal stripe from middle of vertex to middle of posterior margin of forewing. Median carina of frons forked at extreme base. Antennae cylindrical. Forewing with large, longitudinal, brown marking. Metabasitarsus longer than tarsomere 2 + 3 combined, calcar thin, tectiform, with many black-tipped teeth on lateral margin. Male pygofer in lateral view with laterodorsal angle produced, medioventral process absent. Diaphragm of pygofer narrow, dorsal margin produced dorsad. Suspensorium ventrally ring-like. Aedeagus tubular, long. Parameres fairly developed, apically convergent. Anal segment deeply sunk into dorsal emargination of pygofer, ring-like, caudoventral processes present or absent.

Distribution.

China (Guizhou, Taiwan, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shaanxi), Japan.

Key to species in the genus Kakuna (males)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Delphacidae