Mukariella yanheensis (Chen, Yang & Li) Zhao & Luo & Yang & Chen, 2024

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, Zootaxa 5474 (3), pp. 259-270 : 269

Mukariella yanheensis (Chen, Yang & Li) comb. nov.

Mukaria yanheensis Chen, Yang & Li, 2012:76 .

Body length: male: 3.70–3.75 mm.

Descriptions and illustrations of external features and male genitalia of this species see Chen et al., 2012:76.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: 1 ♂, China: Tongren , Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, Mayang River National Nature Reserve (28°64’N, 108°29’E), 5 June 2007, collectors: Xiangsheng Chen, paratypes: 2♂♂, China: Tongren, Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County , Mayang River National Nature Reserve (28°64’N, 108°29’E), 5 June 2007, collectors: Xiangsheng Chen.

Distribution. China (Guizhou).

Host Plant. Phyllostachys edulis (Carrière) J. Houz.

Note. This species is moved to Mukariella based on the following characteristics: (1) crown with pronounced forward extension; (2) frontoclypeus middle and tip flattened in lateral view; (3) aedeagus single-branched, terminal part with a pair of short forked spinules on each side, one gonopore.