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Watara Dworakowska 1977

Description

Watara Dworakowska, 1977

Watara Dworakowska, 1977: 295; Ahmed, 1985: 194; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 252? Zhang & Yang, 2011: 64; Song & Li, 2014: 195

Type species: Typhlocyba sudra Distant, 1908

Diagnosis. Body shape as in Seriana Dworakowska, but pronotum and face shorter. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown fore margin moderately produced with single rounded dark patch medially. Vertex with coronal suture present. Anteclypeus and lora broad. Forewing broad, with 1 st apical cell largest and 4th apical cell quite small not reaching apex of forewing. Hind wing narrow at apex, venation resembling that of Diomma, av vein reduced, CuA vein of hind wing absent.

Abdominal apodemes broad, well developed.

Male genitalia: Pygofer lobe with one or two dorsal macrosetae, and sparse long fine setae. Pygofer with dorsal appendage and ventral appendage present; several enlarged macrosetae in group scattered at baso-ventral angle of lobe. Subgenital plate strongly protruding beyond hind margin of pygofer lobe; apex pigmented. Setosity slightly resembles that of Empoascanara Distant, with numerous short stout setae at base, row of rigid microsetae from near middle to apex and 3–4 long macrosetae in oblique row on outer lateral surface. Style with apex footlike, with some sculpturing; preapical lobe prominent, not very big. Connective Y-shaped. Aedeagus with or without pair of processes; preatrium slender or reduced. Aedeagal shaft curved dorsad, tubular; gonopore apical.

Distribution. India; Pakistan; China; Thailand.

Notes

Published as part of Song, Yue-Hua, Gao, Ya-Rong & Li, Can, 2018, One new species and new record of the leafhopper genus Watara Dworakowska from Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), pp. 281-286 in Zootaxa 4418 (3) on page 282, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1244884

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Watara
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Dworakowska
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Watara Dworakowska, 1977 sec. Song, Gao & Li, 2018

References

  • Dworakowska, I. (1977) On some north Indian Typhlocybinae (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Reichenbachia, 16 (29), 283 - 306.
  • Ahmed, M. (1985) Typhlocybinae of Pakistan. Fauna of the sub-family Typhlocybinae (Cicadellidae: Homoptera: Insecta). Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad, Pakistan, XI + 279 pp.
  • Chiang, C. C. & Knight, W. J. (1990) Studies on Taiwanese Typhlocybinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). IV. Tribe Erythroneurini. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural Science, 2, 191 - 255.
  • Zhang, Y. L. & Yang, M. X. (2011) The second species of the leafhopper genus Watara Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini). Zootaxa, 2897, 64 - 68.
  • Song, Y. H. & Li, Z. Z. (2014) Erythroneurini and Zyginellini from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae). Guizhou Science and Technology Publishing House, Guiyang, 286 pp.
  • Distant, W. L. (1908) Rhynchota. IV. Homoptera and appendix (Pt.). The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Taylor & Francis, London, XV + 501 pp.