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Indodictyophara Liang & Song 2012

Description

INDODICTYOPHARA LIANG & SONG, 2012

Indodictyophara Liang & Song, 2012: 418.

Type species

Indodictyophara lobosa Liang & Song, 2012; by original designation.

Diagnosis

The genus can be separated from other Aluntiini genera by the following combination of characters: cephalic process nearly 1.3 times as long as pronotum and mesonotum combined; vertex with median carina only visible basally; frons with lateral and median carinae strongly ridged and blade-like; tegmina without dendroid secondary veins; ten suboblique veins on costal cell from basal one-third to apex; and aedeagus with a pair of spinous, sclerotized, black-tipped, and not inflated endosomal processes.

Diversity and distribution

Indodictyophara is a monotypic genus known only from southern India.

Notes

Published as part of Song, Zhi-Shun, Szwedo, Jacek, Wang, Rong-Rong & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2016, Systematic revision of Aluntiini Emeljanov, 1979 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae: Dictyopharinae): reclassification, phylogenetic analysis, and biogeography, pp. 349-398 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (2) on page 368, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12319, http://zenodo.org/record/5357644

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References

  • Liang A-P, Song Z-S. 2012. Revision of the Austro-Oriental planthopper genus Dictyomorpha Melichar, with description of a new genus Indodictyophara gen. nov. from south India (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Dictyopharidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 105: 403 - 421.