Ommatocyba biguttata ( Wang & Li, 2003 ), 2025

Yan, Bin, Webb, Mick D., Deng, Zi-Yue, Yu, Xiao-Fei, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2025, A new leafhopper genus and one new species of the genus Edwardsiana of Typhlocybini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 1254, pp. 181-189 : 181-189

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1254.164010

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D5B85A1C-7DB8-4815-9BDA-9FAC5263D2BC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17244270

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CB47C9EE-CEA2-5DA7-8FC0-F94AE32DC0F1

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scientific name

Ommatocyba biguttata ( Wang & Li, 2003 )
status

comb. nov.

Ommatocyba biguttata ( Wang & Li, 2003) comb. nov.

Figs 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2

Mohunia biguttata Wang & Li, 2003: 186, figs 1–7.

Material examined.

2 ♂♂ (abdomen detached and lost), China, Yunnan Province, Longling County, 26 July 2002, coll. Maofa Yang ; • 2 ♂♂, China, Guangxi Province, Damingshan Mountain , 14–17 May 2011, coll. Xiaofei Yu and Rong Huang ; • 2 ♂♂, China, Guangxi Province, Huaping National Nature Reserve , alt. 730 m, 5 May 2017, coll. Bin Yan ; • 1 ♀ (abdomen detached and lost), China, Hainan Province, Bawangling National Nature Reserve , alt. 1055 m, 28 April 2017, coll. Bin Yan.

Description.

Length of male 4.0– 4.3 mm; female 4.3 mm. Crown yellow with a black spot each side of midline anteriorly and reddish band between spot and eye (Fig. 1 A, B View Figure 1 ); eyes red-brownish (Fig. 1 A – D View Figure 1 ); face yellowish to brownish (Fig. 1 C, D View Figure 1 ); thorax reddish marked with yellow as a longitudinal patch on pronotum each side of midline, at apex of scutellum and a transverse patch subbasally across forewing and at apex of clavus (Fig. 1 A, B View Figure 1 ); distal part of forewing infuscate with reddish veins (Figs 1 F, G View Figure 1 , 2 B View Figure 2 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer triangular-shaped in lateral view; dorsal bridge short; lobe with rows of microsetae on caudal ventral margin; with two caudal appendages, the more dorsal appendage longer, abruptly curved ventrad, with few setae on medial area (Figs 1 H View Figure 1 , 2 A View Figure 2 ). Anal tube robust and dilated with elongate ventral processes, processes slightly curved inward in posterior view (Figs 1 I View Figure 1 , 2 A View Figure 2 ). Style with subapical tooth; distally without microsetae on outer margin, few sensorial pits at inner margin, with serrated lobe on inner margin two-thirds distance from base to apex (Figs 1 K View Figure 1 , 2 D View Figure 2 ). Connective V-shaped, lateral ledges developed, central rib not exceeding central lobe (Figs 1 K View Figure 1 , 2 D View Figure 2 ). Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme moderately long; preatrium present, short; shaft slightly curved with apex membranous, subapical processes slender, directed caudally, extending slightly beyond shaft apex, slightly sinuate (Figs 1 K View Figure 1 , 2 F, G View Figure 2 ).

Distribution.

China ( Yunnan, Hainan, Guangxi).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Typhlocybinae

Tribe

Typhlocybini

Genus

Ommatocyba

Loc

Ommatocyba biguttata ( Wang & Li, 2003 )

Yan, Bin, Webb, Mick D., Deng, Zi-Yue, Yu, Xiao-Fei, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yang, Mao-Fa 2025
2025
Loc

Mohunia biguttata

Wang LM & Li ZZ 2003: 186
2003