Favintiga Webb, 1981

Lu, Lin & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Taxonomy of the Oriental leafhopper genus Favintiga Webb (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 4370 (4), pp. 446-450 : 446

Favintiga Webb, 1981

Favintiga Webb, 1981: 47 ; Zhang & Webb, 1996: 14; Shang, Zhang, Shen & Li, 2006: 35; Dai, Qu & Yang, 2017: 393 –397 Type-species: Parabolopona camphorae Matsumura, 1912 , original designation

Diagnosis. Color and external characters are as in the generic description ( Webb, 1981).

Scutellum as long as or longer than pronotum. Fore femur with AM1 long, near midheight of femur, AV without setae in basal half, AV1 short, IC with series of 11–15 fine setae; tibia rows AD and PD with 1 and 4 macrosetae, respectively. Macrosetal formula of hind femur 2+2+1 or 2+1+1.

Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, roundly extended without appendages; side lobe with macrosetae and fine setae near caudal margin. Segment X moderately long, strongly sclerotized and cylindrical. Valve broad, triangular. Subgenital plates moderately long, apex digitate, outer margin abruptly tapered near midlength, with fine setae on basal and distal lobes, and with inner margin straight.

Style moderately long with apex beak-like and basal and lateral lobes strong. Connective Y-shaped; stem long with bifurcate process distally on ventral surface; arms short. Aedeagus with atrium developed elongate; shaft curved dorsad, tapered to apex, with long pair of basal processes; gonopore apical on ventral surface.

Distribution. China, Japan.

Remarks. Favintiga resembles Parabolopona in external characters and in having the aedeagus with a long pair of basal processes articulated with the connective rather than connected to the middle of the connective by a membrane (Parabolopona group). Favintiga differs from others in the subtribe Paraboloponina by the presence of connective processes and in having the connective articulated to the aedeagus.