Oniella fasciata

Min, Gao & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Review of the leafhopper genus Oniella Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 3693 (1) : -

4. Oniella fasciata Li & Wang

(Figs. 4, 9, 14, 19, 68–73)

Oniella fasciata Li & Wang, 1992: 128. Oniella fasciata Li & Chen, 1999: 83.

Description. Crown and face yellowish white; anterior part of pronotum yellowish white, scutellum brown; forewing pale yellowish white, with chocolate-brown patch at middle of inner margin (Figs. 4, 9, 14, 19).

Pygofer lobe rounded, with several macrosetae at posterior margin, caudoventral margin with a doroposteriorly directed appendage( Fig. 68 ). Subgenital plate with single median longitudinal row of macrosetae extending from near base to apex ( Fig. 69 ). Style apical process elongate, curved laterally; lateral lobe not developed ( Fig. 73 ). Connective Y-shaped, arms as long as stem ( Fig. 72 ). Aedeagus expanded at base, shaft curved dorsad, with two pairs of slender appendages, preapical pair curved ventrolaterad and shorter apical pair extended laterad ( Figs. 70– 71 ).

Measurements. Male body length 4.6 & 5.0mm, female body length 5.2 & 5.5mm (including wing). Material examined. 13 1Ƥ, China: Shaanxi Prov., Huashan, 22-August-1962, coll: Li Fasheng; 2Ƥ, China: Shaanxi Prov., Huashan, 22-August-1962, coll: Yang Jikun; 23,3Ƥ, China: Shaanxi Prov., Yangling, 25-May- 1980; 23,1Ƥ, China: Guizhou Prov., Leigongshan, 30-July-1997, light trap, coll: Zhang Yazhou; 13, China: Zhejiang Prov., Qingliangfeng, Shunxiwu, 450m, 10-August-2008, coll: Wang Manqiang.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Shaanxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Zhejiang).

Figures

FIGURES 68 – 73. Oniella fasciata Li & Wang: 68, male pygofer, lateral view; 69, subgenital plate, lateral view; 70, aedeagus, posteroventral view; 71, aedeagus, lateral view; 72, connective dorsal view; 73, style, dorsal view.