Dietrichia menglongensis (Wang, Li & Dai), 2025

Li, Yu-Jian, Dai, Ren-Huai, Li, Zi-Zhong & Jiang, Li-Na, 2025, Notes on the leafhopper genus Midoria Kato (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), with descriptions of one new genus and three new species from China, Zootaxa 5632 (1), pp. 181-191 : 184-185

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.1.11

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D0F5306F-CD1B-4D1D-AA7F-C328B0F161EC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15397067

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/800B961B-3F45-D721-63E7-F9E016C0FE2B

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scientific name

Dietrichia menglongensis (Wang, Li & Dai)
status

comb. nov.

Dietrichia menglongensis (Wang, Li & Dai) comb. nov.

Fig. 1d–f View FIGURE 1 , Fig.2 e–h View FIGURE 2

Midoria menglongensis Wang, Li & Dai 2024 View in CoL (in Wang et al. 2024): 16 ( Figs. 5H View FIGURE 5 1–H View FIGURE 1 3 View FIGURE 3 , 6H View FIGURE 6 , 7H View FIGURE 7 1–H View FIGURE 1 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Description. Head yellowish brown, eyes light grey, ocelli transparent. Thorax yellowish brown. Forewings semitransparent, base densely covered with small dots.

Crown longer than half of width between eyes. Pronotum shallowly foveate on either side of median line in anterior half, posterior half slightly gibbous, anterior margin slightly convex, posterior margin medially concave, lateral margin somewhat concave, medially longer than crown. Mesonotum equal in length to the pronotum. Forewing claval region densely punctate, apical margin obliquely acute.

Male pygofer gradually narrowed posteriorly, apex narrow and curved dorsally, with a fine process on apical half of ventral margin ( Fig. 2e View FIGURE 2 ); aedeagus with shaft relatively slender, slightly curved dorsad, apex angulately emarginate in lateral view, with short and sharp distal process ventrally; gonopore apical ( Fig. 2f, g View FIGURE 2 ); style apex elliptical with heel and toe rounded, with few fine preapical setae ( Fig. 2h View FIGURE 2 ).

Other characteristics are as shown in Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 , 2 View FIGURE 2 .

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 8.8 mm.

Distribution. CHINA: Yunnan (Jinghong City (Bulong Nature Reserve)).

Host plant. Unknown.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Ledrinae

Tribe

Ledrini

Genus

Dietrichia

Loc

Dietrichia menglongensis (Wang, Li & Dai)

Li, Yu-Jian, Dai, Ren-Huai, Li, Zi-Zhong & Jiang, Li-Na 2025
2025
Loc

Midoria menglongensis

Wang, Li & Dai 2024
2024
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