Flaviata Lu & Qin, 2014

Xu, Ye, Lu, Si-Han & Qin, Dao-Zheng, 2015, Flaviata longa, a new species in Flaviata Lu & Qin and new synonymies in Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Empoascini), Zootaxa 4027 (2), pp. 296-300 : 297

Genus Flaviata Lu & Qin, 2014

Flaviata Lu & Qin , in Qin et al., 2014: 1506. Type species. Flaviata variata Lu & Qin, 2014 , by original designation. Body robust. Head including eyes broader than pronotum in dorsal view. Crown short and broad, rounded anteriorly, anterior and posterior margins parallel, coronal suture short; ocelli on margin about equidistant between eye and midline. Face broad, distinctly convex in profile. Pronotum large. Forewing narrow, rounded apically, veins RP and MP’ arising from r cell and MP”+CuA’ from m cell. Hind wing with bifurcation point of CuA basad of coalescence of CuA with MP”, cell cua’ fairly large. Front femur with dorsoapical pair of macrosetae, AM1 enlarged and situated on ventral margin, intercalary row with 2 large basal setae and 8 smaller setae more distad. Hind femur macrosetae 2+1+1, row AV with 9 macrosetae near apex.

Male basal abdominal apodemes developed. Pygofer strongly sclerotized dorsally and terminating in a process, ventral appendage absent, dorsal bridge short. Subgenital plate surpassing pygofer side, A-group setae absent. Paramere robust, apically curved, with a few fine setae and sensory pits near middle. Connective trapezoidal. Aedeagal shaft tubular, dorso-basally with broad lamella connecting with base of anal tube, preatrium short, dorsoatrium absent. Anal tube with pair of basal ventral processes.

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Zhejiang, Yunnan).