Dwightla McKamey, 2003

Lu, Lin & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Review of the Afrotropical genus Dwightla McKamey (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of a new species from Nigeria, Zootaxa 4370 (3), pp. 267-270 : 267-268

Genus Dwightla McKamey, 2003

Dwightia Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy, 1983: 24. Type species: Dwightia acutipennis Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy, 1983 by original designation. Preoc.: Dwightia Wilson, 1924

Dwightla McKamey, 2003: 449 ; Zahniser & Dietrich, 2013: 159 . Type species: Dwightia acutipennis Linnavuori & Al-Ne'amy, 1983

Diagnosis. Large, ochraceous or reddish brown. Head with vertex marked with large dark basal spots and sometimes with row of four dark spots near hind margin. Pronotum with oblique transverse row of dark spots symmetrically arranged. Scutellum without dark spots. Scape of antenna white and pedicel dark brown. Forewing with callosities and one row of about eight brown spots along costal margin. Head as broad as pronotum. Vertex short, anterior and posterior margins parallel. Ocelli situated their own diameter distant from adjacent eye. Face very broad. Frontoclypeus concave, not tumid. Antennae short, arising near upper corners of eyes with antennal pit obtuse or oblique. Pronotum with disc transversely striate, lateral margin short, carinate. Forewing macropterous, elongate, strongly tapering to apex, uneven, coriaceous and with setal covering and extra crossveins near costal margin, with three subapical cells, two closed; cross vein present between outer claval vein and claval suture, appendix distinct. Profemur row AM with AM1 and two or more additional proximal setae, intercalary row (IC) with about five or more fine setae; anteroventral setae (AV) row with very long macrosetae in basal half. Fore tibiae with irregular setae. Hind femur with apical setal formula 2+2+1 or 2+2+1+1.

Pygofer broad, conical dorsally, side lobes without macrosetae, with or without appendages. Valve broadly triangular and articulated with pygofer. Subgenital plates subtriangular and articulated with valve, macrosetae irregularly arranged near lateral margin. Style with apical process long and preapical angle distinct. Connective short. Aedeagus articulated to apex of connective, symmetrical and recurved dorsad, with simple shaft long with one or two pairs of lateral processes; gonopore large, subapical on ventral side. Female 7th sternite longer than 6th, hind margin insinuated.

Distribution: Afrotropical Region.