Published August 21, 2025 | Version v1

Parocerus laurifoliae

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of the Ministry of Education; Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China.
  • 2. Institute of Plateau Biology of Xizang Autonomous Region, Lhasa, Xizang Autonomous Region, 850001, China.

Description

Parocerus laurifoliae (Vilbaste, 1965)

(Figs 4F–N)

Idiocerus laurifoliae Vilbaste, 1965: 36.

Parocerus laurifoliae (Vilbaste): Vilbaste, 1980: 63.

Diagnosis. Body brownish. Crown ochraceous with brown markings (Fig. 4F). Face yellowish except brown anterior margin (Fig. 4G). Pronotum ochraceous, anterior margin yellow; anterior half with pair of arched eyebrowlike brown stripes, with white markings below this stripe (Fig. 4F).

Material examined. 7♀♀, China, Xizang Autonomous Region, Shigatse City, Renbu Village, Xiubagang, 2022.vii.10, 3775m, coll. Qingquan Xue (NWAFU); 1♀, China, Xizang Autonomous Region, Lhasa City, 2017. vii.24, coll. Lin Zhou (NWAFU); 1♀, China, Xizang Autonomous Region, Lhasa City, 2017.vii.26, coll. Lin Zhou (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Jilin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Xizang), Russia, South Korea.

Remarks. This species is one of the largest species in Idiocerini. Most species of Idiocerini measure 3.0–5.0 mm in body length, but in this species the body length ranges from 6.5 mm to 7.3 mm. The pronotum with eyebrowlike arched brown stripes readily distinguish this species from other species of Idiocerini.

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Qingquan, Nyima, Tenzin, Da, Wa & Zhang, Yalin, 2025, Taxonomy of eurymeline leafhoppers from Xizang, China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with two new genera and three new species, pp. 377-396 in Zootaxa 5683 (3) on page 381, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5683.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/17016075

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NWAFU
Event date
2017-07-24 , 2017-07-26 , 2022-07-10
Verbatim event date
2017-07-24 , 2017-07-26 , 2022-07-10
Scientific name authorship
Vilbaste
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Parocerus
Species
laurifoliae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Parocerus laurifoliae (Vilbaste, 1965) sec. Xue, Nyima, Da & Zhang, 2025