Hiratettix Matsumura

Zhou, Xian, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, New leafhopper species and new records of Typhlocybini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 1082, pp. 135-151 : 135

Hiratettix Matsumura

Hiratettix Matsumura, 1931: 59 (in key); Matsumura 1932: 102 (full description); Dworakowska 1982: 152.

Type species.

Hiratettix arisanellus Matsumura, 1932.

Remarks.

After Matsumura (1931) described the genus Hiratettix (in a key to genera), Dworakowska (1982) added three new species from China (Taiwan), Myanmar, and India, and Sohi et al. (1990) published a new species from Nepal. Here we report two species new to China and provide a key to the Chinese species.

Diagnosis.

Body flat and overall black (Figs 4 , 5 ). Face wide and short (Figs 19 , 20 ). Pronotum with minute transverse sculpture (Figs 9 , 10 ). Forewing with 3rd apical cell triangular. Hind wing truncated terminally with two cross veins; apical cells short.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule high and short. Pygofer with several short rigid setae terminally on inner surface and long macrosetae ventrobasally. Subgenital plate broad basally, slightly narrowed distally, with several long macrosetae near middle part, a row of short rigid setae laterally and progressively shorter subbasally to apex. Connective wide with central lobe underdeveloped. Paramere thick with central part longer than basal and distal parts together; caudal part with sensorial pits on inner margin. Aedeagal shaft with paired apical and lateral processes; gonopore apical.

Distribution.

Oriental Region.

Figures

Figures 1 - 20. Typhlocybini of China 1 - 5 dorsal view 6 - 10 head and thorax, dorsal view 11 - 15 lateral view 16 - 20 face 1, 6, 11, 16 Edwardsiana corylicola 2, 7, 12, 17 E. praedestina 3, 8, 13, 18 E. singularis 4, 9, 14, 19 Hiratettix distanti 5, 10, 15, 20 H. malaisei. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (1 - 5, 11 - 15); 0.5 mm (6 - 10, 16 - 20).