Japananoides, Cao & Xing, 2022

Cao, Wenjun & Xing, Jichun, 2022, Japananoides, a new leafhopper genus from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 5154 (3), pp. 345-354 : 348-350

Japananoides gen. nov.

Type species: Japananoides circularis sp. nov.

Description. Body yellowish-brown. Crown yellow, with a white marking. Eyes dark yellowish-brown, ocelli brown. Pronotum with anterior yellowish-brown and posterior yellow. Face dark brown, with regular white stripes. Forewing yellowish with symmetrical brown markings. Legs yellowish-brown.

Body robust. Head including eyes narrower than pronotum; crown depressed, anteriorly angularly produced, length much shorter medially than width between eyes; ocelli on anterior margin, separated from corresponding eye by approximately their own diameter; face slightly flattened, its width narrower than length; gena broad, with very slight concavity below eye in anteroventral view; anteclypeus slightly expanded apically. Pronotum obviously wider than long, anterior margin strongly and roundly produced, posterior margin slightly concave. Scutellum triangular, as long as pronotum, with transverse suture depressed. Forewing hyaline, with four apical cells and three subapical cells, about 3 times as long as wide. Fore femur with 2 dorsoapical setae, row AM with 2 stout setae and row IC with 5 stout setae. Hind femur broadened distally and slightly bowed, apical setal formula 2+2+1. Hind tibia flattened and nearly straight, row AD with 12 macrosetae decreasing in length toward base; row PD with approximately 14 long stout setae and 0-5 shorter stout setae between each long seta.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer slightly longer than high, with macrosetae on posterior margin. Valve subtriangular. Subgenital plate with wide base, narrowed posteriorly, without macrosetae. Aedeagus with paired shafts curved, slender U-shaped in ventral view, each shaft with a few preapical spines, gonopore subapical. Connective Y-shaped, articulated with aedeagus. Style broad at base, without preapical lobe, distal part straight and slightly narrowing subapically.

Remarks. This new genus is distinguished from other genera by the aedeagus with a few processes and forewing yellowish with symmetrical brown markings. The new genus is similar to Japananus Ball, 1931 in general appearance, but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagal shafts with subapical spines, subgenital plate without a caudal attenuated process, and vertex shorter than width between eyes (vertex longer than width between eyes in Japananus ).

Etymology. The genus name refers to similarity to the genus Japananus .

Distribution. Oriental Region ( China).