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Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb 2019

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & The Provincial Special Key Laboratory for Development and Utilization of Insect Resources of Guizhou, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China. & Guizhou Key Laboratory for Agricultural Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550025, PR China.
  • 2. Gannan Normal University, Ganzhou, Jiangxi, 341000, PR China.

Description

Genus Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb

Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb, 2019: 20.

Mukariella Ramaiah, Meshram & Dey, 2023.

Type species: Mukariella daii Viraktamath & Webb, 2019, by original designation.

Diagnosis. External characters as in generic description of Viraktamath & Webb (2019).

Remarks. The genus can be identified by the following characteristics. Medium sized body, mostly black or tawny. Width of head including eyes is narrow to width of pronotum, the anterior margin of the crown extends foreward, with three marginal ridges, crown seam obvious. Face including eyes broader than long, horizontal, flat in lateral view; frontoclypeus gradually narrowed; lorum long and narrow. Pronotum longer than crown, posterior margin slightly concave, anterior margin convex. Forewings yellow or black, with 3 subapical cells. Male pygofer is wide at base, tipped with setae, ventral margin with or without protuberance. Valve triangular. Subgenital plates with a few hair-like setae, trapezoidal with or without apical membranous appendage. Distal apophysis of style with or without dentate prominences, tapered distally and sculptured ventrally. Connective and aedeagus fused. Aedeagus shaft tubular with apical large gonopore, with or without protrusions in subterminal.

Distributions. China, India.

Descriptions

Notes

Published as part of Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, pp. 259-270 in Zootaxa 5474 (3) on pages 263-266, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/12567715

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C287BBFFEBFFE830BC2634FEE497A9

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/12567715 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFFBFFC3FFEFFFEF302B2027FFD79718 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/9562F4AC-2627-4DD5-B802-EC3E52E35545 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03C287BBFFEBFFE830BC2634FEE497A9 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/241281590 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/303306/taxon/03C287BBFFEBFFE830BC2634FEE497A9.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Mukariella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Viraktamath & Webb
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Mukariella Viraktamath, 2019 sec. Zhao, Luo, Yang & Chen, 2024

References

  • Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D. (2019) Revision of the bamboo leafhopper tribe Mukariini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and species. Zootaxa, 4547 (1), 1 - 69. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4547.1.1
  • Ramaiah, M., Meshram N. M., Dey D. (2023) A new species of bamboo-feeding leafhopper genus Mukariella Viraktamath and Webb (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) along with its morphological variant from India [J]. Zootaxa, 5239 (2), 289 - 295. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5239.2.7