Daochia reticulata, Wei & Zhang & Webb, 2006

Wei, C., Zhang, Y. - L. & Webb, M. D., 2006, New synonymy in the leafhopper genus Stegelytra Mulsant and Rey and description of a new genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2057-2069 : 2064

Daochia reticulata sp. n. ( Figures 15–27 )

Description

Body length 7.0– 7.8 mm. Dorsum generally yellow-brown with pale yellow markings as in Figures 15–18 ; anterior part of anteclypeus, lora and gena reddish; ocelli red-brown. Fore wing with veins generally yellow-white with some basal veins dark red; a triangular-shaped pale yellow patch at mid-length of the fore margin. Sternum yellow-white, legs yellow-white to dark brown.

Male genitalia with connective narrow. Aedeagus with shaft moderately long and narrow, fimbriolate apically on posterior margin; a laterally broad basal process on each side and a slightly shorter more posterior process on each side, both pairs of processes slightly divergent in posterior view and following curve of shaft in lateral view.

Type material

Holotype: „ ( CAU), P. R. China, Tibet: Bo-Mi Co., Yi Gong (30.01 ° N, 94.80 ° E), 2300 m, 31 July 1978, Fa-Sheng Li . Paratypes: P. R. China, Yunnan Prov.: 1 „ ( CAU), Rui-Li Co., Nan-Jing-Li (24.00 ° N, 97.83 ° E), 4 May 1981, Fa-Sheng Li; 1 „ ( CAU) , Sichuan Prov.: Omei Shan, Wan-Nian Temple (29.53 ° N, 103.35 ° E), 1020 m, 16 July 1978, Fa-Sheng Li .

Additional material. The following female specimens that are generally paler than the males may be this species:P. R. China, Yunnan Prov.: 1♀ ( CAU), Men-Hai Co., Nan-Nuo-Shan (21.95 ° N, 100.50 ° E), 1400 m, 2 March 1957, Da-Wei Liu ; 1♀ ( CAU), Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture (21.08, 22.36 ° N, 99.56, 101.50 ° E), 18 March 1957, Qiu-Zhen Liang .

Etymology

Named after the conspicuously reticulate fore wing venation.

Biology

Unknown (see Introduction).

Figures

Figures 15–27. Daochia reticulata sp. n. (15) Head and thorax, dorsal view. (16) Face, male. (17) Face, female. (18) Fore wing. (19) Apical part of female abdomen, ventral view. (20) Second valvulae, left lateral view. (21) First valvulae, left lateral view. (22) Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view. (23) Aedeagus, paramere, and connective, dorsal view. (24) Male genital capsule and anal tube, left lateral view. (25) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (26) Aedeagus, posterior view. (27) Detail of antero-ventral corner of male pygofer, lateral view.