Salka Dworakowska, 1972

Ohara, Naomichi, 2012, Taxonomic study of the Japanese species of the genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 3281, pp. 22-40 : 22-23

Genus Salka Dworakowska, 1972

Type species: Zygina nigricans Matsumura, 1932 .

Salka Dworakowska, 1972: 778 ; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 229; Sohi & Mann, 1994: 31; Zhang, Yang & Huang, 2009: 23.

Body yellow to brownish black. Fore wing semitransparent with brochosome field yellow to brownish black; hind wing semitransparent, with veins darkened.

Head as wide as or somewhat narrower than pronotum; vertex slightly produced anteriad, about twice as wide as long at dorsal mid-line, with coronal suture indistinct or short. Pronotum about twice as wide as long. Male abdominal sternal apodemes small, not or slightly exceeding 3rd sternite.

Male genitalia. Pygofer bearing 1 or more macrosetae on dorsal margin and tuft of various sized macrosetae at lower basal angle, with dorsal process, with or without ventral process. Subgenital plate triangular, bearing 2 5 macrosetae in row or arranging triangularly and numerous short stout setae on outer lateral margin. Style with apophysis variable in shape. Connective U- or Y-shaped, with or without central lobe. Aedeagus tubular, usually with 1 or more processes; shaft long, as long as or longer than preatrium; gonopore apical or subapical, usually on ventral or caudal surface. Anal tube process present or absent.

Distribution. Oriental region.