Mitjaevia Dworakowska, 1970

Luo, Guimei, Wang, Jinqiu & Song, Yuehua, 2022, Three new species of the leafhopper genus Mitjaevia Dworakowska from Karst areas in Southwest China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), ZooKeys 1125, pp. 159-169 : 159

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Mitjaevia Dworakowska

Mitjaevia Dworakowska, 1970: 763.

Type species.

Erythroneura amseli Dlabola, 1961.

Type locality.

Afghanistan.

Diagnosis.

Yellow with brown markings; vertex usually with a pair of dark brown spots; pronotum with brown markings or completely dark; scutellum with dark basal triangles; forewing hyaline with several dark patches; abdomen ventrally and subgenital plates dark. Head distinctly narrower than pronotum.

Male genitalia.

Pygofer caudally rounded or angulate, weakly sclerotized caudally; dorsal pygofer appendage movably articulated, not extended beyond pygofer apex. Style distally slender with apex foot-like; preapical lobe large. Subgenital plates extended beyond pygofer, darkly pigmented, gradually curved dorsad, with three or more macrosetae of differing length present in middle. Aedeagus with shaft tubular, straight or curved dorsad in lateral view, with or without basal processes; preatrium developed. Connective Y- or M-shaped, with short stem and arms, central lobe well developed.

Distribution.

Palaearctic and Oriental regions.

Checklist of species of Mitjaevia from China

M. aurantiaca Mitjaev, 1969: 1044 (pl. 3, figs 1, 2); Song & Li, 2014: 111, (pl. 2.71, figs D-F; I, J, M, S).

M. bifurcata Luo, Song & Song, 2021: 3-6, fig. 2.

M. diana (Distant, 1918: 100, Typhlocyba ); Dworakowska, 1970: 765 (lectotype designated by inference); Dworakowska, 1980: 179, figs 252-262; Song & Li, 2014: 112 (pl. 2.72, figs D-F; I, J, M).

M. dworakowskae Chen, Song & Webb, 2020: 34-39, figs 28-41.

M. korolevskayae Dworakowska, 1979: 44-45, figs 349-358; Song & Li, 2014: 113 (pl. 2.73, figs D-F; I, J, M).

M. nanaoensis Chiang & Knight, 1990: 223, fig. 18.

M. protuberanta Song, Li & Xiong, 2011: 27-29, figs 1-10.

M. bijiensis sp. nov.

M. ramosa Luo, Song & Song, 2021: 6-8, fig. 5.

M. salixia sp. nov.

M. shibingensis Chen, Song & Webb, 2020: 34, fig. 15-27.

M. solitaria sp. nov.

M. tappana Chiang & Knight, 1990: 225, fig. 19.

M. wangwushana Song, Li & Xiong, 2011: 29-30, figs 11-19.