Hodoedocus mindanaoensis ( Baker, 1923 )

Duan, Yani, Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the leafhopper tribe Stenometopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China with description of four new species, Zootaxa 4171 (1), pp. 101-138 : 105-106

Hodoedocus mindanaoensis ( Baker, 1923)

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Stenometopius mindanaoensis Baker, 1923: 400 , plate 5, Figs. 46 & 47; Li, 1988: 73; Li & Chen 1999: 127, 128. Hodoedocus mindanaoensis, Linnavuori & DeLong, 1978: 208 .

Length. Female: 5.9mm.

Color. Generally sordid ochraceous ( Fig. 1 ). Vertex with two oblique pale brown stripes on either side of anterior half, two orange-red stripes start from the margin in front of eyes, cross pronotum and basal angles of mesonotum and scutellum ( Fig. 1 A). Color of face, see Fig. 1 C. Forewing with brown hue ( Fig. 1 A–B).

Body. Vertex as long as 3– 4x width between eyes, broadly spatulate in outline, obtuse-angulate at apex, lateral areas gently depressed, basal two-thirds shagreened, apical one-third longitudinally wrinkled ( Fig. 1 A). Ocellus a little farther from border of vertex than from eye ( Fig. 1 B). Eye relatively small ( Fig. 1 A). Anteclypeus tapering to apex, not extending beyond normal curve of genae ( Fig. 1 C). Pronotum nearly as long as 0.4x median length of crown. Mesonotum and scutellum shorter than pronotum ( Fig. 1 A). Forewing macropterous, female usually exposing apex of abdomen, outer anteapical cell length about as long as 0.66x central anteapical cell length, central anteapical cell length nearly as long as 7x width ( Fig. 1 A–B).

Male. Pygofer side with group of short setae near the tooth ( Fig. 2 A). Valve long, triangular ( Fig. 2 C). Subgenital plate triangular, strongly convex laterally, macrosetae uniseriate laterally ( Fig. 2 B). Style preapical angle indistinct, apophysis developed ( Fig. 2 D). Connective Y-shaped, stem shorter than anterior arms, stem curved ( Fig. 2 E). Aedeagal shaft long, somewhat straight ( Fig. 2 F–G).

Female. Hind margin of seventh sternum shallowly concave.

Material examined. China, Hainan Prov.: 1Ƌ, Mt. Bawang , 27 August 1983, coll. Y. W. Djau (SYU) ; Shaanxi Prov.: 1♀, Ankang City , 2 July 1980, coll. Ma Ning .

Distribution. Philippines; China (Guizhou, Hainan, Shaanxi).

Remarks. This species was described from an unknown number of specimens (female, syntypes) from the Philippines . The specimens recorded here from China are identified based on a comparison with the original description.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Hodoedocus mindanaoensis. Female. A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: face.

FIGURE 2. Hodoedocus mindanaoensis. A: male pygofer side, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: valve, ventral view; D: style, dorsal view; E: connective, dorsal view; F, G: aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view, respectively.