Complanledra Cai, 1998

Jones, Joshua R. & Deitz, Lewis L., 2009, Phylogeny and systematics of the leafhopper subfamily Ledrinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) 2186, Zootaxa 2186 (1), pp. 1-120 : 35-36

Genus Complanledra Cai

Complanledra Cai, 1998: 213 .

Type species. C. complana Cai 1998: 214 , fig. 3, by original designation.

Synonymy. None.

Description. Cai and Huang (1998): “Medium-sized leafhopper, body flat, light brunneus. Head spatulate and ventrally concave, median length of crown shorter than interocular width in male, the lateral margins straight in front of eyes and then oblique to apex, which is obtusely angulate. Eyes and ocelli prominent, ocelli situated in the line of anterior margin of eyes, nearer to each other than to eyes. Pronotum as long as crown, anterolaterally foveately depressed and declivous, with a shallow medial slit on apical part, lateral margins straight and parallel to each other, posterior margin concavely sinuous. Scutellum moderately large, slightly shorter than pronotum in length. Forewings long and narrow, semihyaline, costal margin and inner margin parallel, veins raised in relief and reticulate, base of vein A 1 crestiformly prominent. Legs moderately long and slender, with a white fringe of hairlike spines, metathoracic tibia somewhat foliaceously dilated, apical half of outer margin with several dentate-like spines. Male abdominal sternum VIII longer than sternum VII, posterior margin concave. Pygofer large and broad, with smaller process on apical half of ventral margin. Plates pod-shaped, long and narrow. Connective depressed, plate-shaped. Styli long and narrow, with distal parts inflected. Aedeagus tubulose, bent, with apical part swollen.”

Species. [1]: complana Cai & Huang.

Range. China (Yunnan).

Host plants. Unknown.

Material examined. None.

Remarks. Complanledra is monobasic. Cai and Huang stated that it is closely allied to Funkikonia , but distinguished by having a “flat body, the crown as long as the pronotum in the male, the lateral margins of pronotum straight and parallel [to] each other, the metathoracic tibia somewhat foliaceously dilated and the bent apex of the styli without processes.” They also indicated that the type specimens of Complanledra and two newly described species of Funkikonia were located at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Academica Sinica), Beijing, and the NMNS. However, no specimen matching the description of Complanledra was observed in material received from NMNS, and material at the Chinese Academy of Sciences was not made available for this project (no response was received to letters or emails).