Pediopsoides Matsumura

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2009, The genus Pediopsoides Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae, Macropsini) from Mainland China, with description of two new species, Zootaxa 2134, pp. 23-35 : 23-24

Pediopsoides Matsumura

Pediopsoides Matsumura, 1912: 305 . Type species: Pediopsoides formosanus Matsumura, 1912 . Digitalis Liu and Zhang, 2002: 175 . syn. nov. Type species: Digitalis striolatus Liu et Zhang.

Head slightly wider to slightly narrower than pronotum. Crown shorter in middle than next to eyes, slightly convex and short. Face slightly longer than wide, slightly shorter than width across eyes; frontoclypeus slight to distinctly inflated; ocelli usually about twice as far from midline of face as from eyes; lora small, clearly defined in female ( Figs. 13, 16 ), in male varying from clearly defined ( Fig. 15 ) to very narrow, concealed by prominent lobes of frontoclypeus ( Figs. 10-12, 14, 17-18 ); clypellus slightly tapered. Pronotum slightly declivous, indistinctly striate in transverse to oblique direction. Forewings usually with 2 or 3 anteapical cells. Hind tibiae with 6-11 lateral macrosetae.

Pygofer with short process slanting inwards, branched, with two apices or with enlarged base. Dorsal connectives sinuate, armed with spatulate process on dorsal end and articulating against upper margins of pygofer. Aedeagus bulbous in basal half, shaft slightly narrowed distally; gonopore apical.

Distribution. China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Philippines, Indonesia, India, United States, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola.

Remark: The genus Pediopsoides , placed in Macropsini, was originally described by Matsumura in 1912. This genus was reviewed and was expanded to include as subgenera three former genera and one new subgenus by Hamilton (1980). Recently, Liu et Zhang (2002) described the genus Digitalis based on type species Digitalis striolatus from Sichuan, however, the original descriptions and examining of the type material revealed that Digitalis striolatus should belong to Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) based on the three anteapical cells of forewing, male pygofer process and the structure of dorsal connective. Therefore, Digitalis is here considered as a junior synonym of Pediopsoides .

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. Face. 10 – 14. Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) kurentsovi (Anufriev); 15 – 16. Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) aomians (Kuoh, 1981) (15. male; 16. female); 17. Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) dilatus sp. nov; 18, Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) heterodigitatus sp. nov. (13, 16. female; 10 – 12, 14, 15, 17, 18. male)