Kamendaka Distant, 1906

Park, Jaekook & Jung, Sunghoon, 2022, A new species of the family Derbidae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea) from Jeju Island, South Korea, Zootaxa 5093 (5), pp. 593-600 : 594

Genus Kamendaka Distant, 1906

Type species: Kamendaka spectra Distant, 1906 , by original designation.

Kamendaka Distant, 1906: 310 ; Metcalf, 1945: 155; Fennah, 1952: 152.

Eosaccharissa Kirkaldy, 1907: 126 . (Synonymized by Muir, 1918: 240)

Nicertoides Matsumura, 1910: 134 . (Synonymized by Muir, 1914: 48)

Kamandaka Muir, 1924: 30 (wrong spelling).

Diagnosis. Recognized by forewing elongate, about three times as long as width, widest at subapical margin; veins of forewing without sensory pits on CuA, Sc+R, dividing at almost medially ( Fig. 2B ); frons and vertex expanded, carinae of frons not converging together; antennae without additional structure, longer than width, not reaching dorsal margin of compound eyes ( Figs 1D–F ) (combined and modified from Emeljanov, 1995 and Yang & Wu, 1994).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Kamendaka jejuensis sp. n., holotype.A. habitus, dorsal view; B. ditto, lateral view; C. ditto, ventral view; D. frons, ventral view; E. head, pronotum and mesonotum, lateral view; F. ditto, dorsal view. Scale bar: A–C: 3.0mm; D–E: 1.0mm.

FIGURE 2. Kamendaka jejuensis sp. n., holotype.A. right forewing; B. ditto, observed in alcohol; C. right hindwing, observed in alcohol. Scale bar: A–C: 3.0mm.