Latycephala McKamey, 2006

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Genus Latycephala McKamey

Latycephala McKamey, 2005: 506 (replacement name for Platycephala Kuoh ).

Type species. Platycephala tortilla Kuoh, 1992: 251 , 306, fig. 9, by original designation.

Synonymy. Platycephala Kuoh, 1992: 250 (type species Platycephala tortilla Kuoh, 1992 :0251), preoccupied (by Platycephala Fallén, 1820 ).

Description. Ge (1992): “This genus most closely resembles Petalocephala Stål , but can be readily distinguished by the vertex of the head much shorter than breadth between eyes, the lateral margins of vertex arched, the anterior margin upturned and ventrally longitudinally carinate raised, by the basal area of face without a strong central ridge, the anteclypeus rectangle, especially in the pygofer, which has a process, the aedeagus with long laminate processes in pairs and in the styli with some denticles near apex.”

Range. China (Sichuan; Yunnan) .

Species. [6]: decussata (Kuoh) ; graminea (Kuoh) ; laminata (Kuoh) ; sanguineomarginata (Kuoh) ; tortilla (Kuoh) ; viridula (Kuoh) .

Host plants. Unknown.

Material examined. None.

Remarks. The type specimen of P. tortilla may be located in either The Institute of Zoology, Academica Sinica, Beijing, or in “ Anhui Agricultural College”, Anhui, China.

Kuoh (Ge 1992) stated that this genus is “near to” Arenoledra and Petalocephala . From Kuoh’s drawings, the key features distinguishing Latycephala seem to be the crown being shorter than the distance betwen the eyes, the presence of denticles on the styli, and the highly developed paired processes of the adeagus. This genus seems to be very similar to Arenoledra Kuoh and Midoria Kato.

McKamey (2005), when he provided the replacement name Latycephala , appears to have omitted two species included by Ge (1992) in Platycephala as new combinations. Their corrected new combinations follow.

Latycephala sanguineomarginata (Kuoh [Ge in Chen, 1992]), NEW COMBINATION.

Synonymy. Petalocephala sanguineomarginata Kuoh 1985: 273 , 278, new species; Platycephala sanguineomarginata (Ge, 1992: 254, 307), new combination.

Latycephala viridula (Kuoh [Ge in Chen, 1992]), NEW COMBINATION.

Synonymy. Petalocephala viridula Kuoh 1985: 274 , 278, new species; Platycephala viridula (Ge, 1992: 254, 307), new combination.