Midoria plana Li, Li & Jiang, 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 : 186-187

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.15371417

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/800B961B-3F43-D723-63E7-FCD314E7FE0F

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scientific name

Midoria plana Li, Li & Jiang
status

sp. nov.

Midoria plana Li, Li & Jiang , sp. nov.

Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4

Description. Head, pronotum and scutellum dark brown, with any light black luster ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Median length of vertex about as long as half width between eyes ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Pronotum rectangular, anterior margin slightly convex, lateral margins oblique, slightly divergent posteriorly, posterior margin wavy. Scutellum ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ) triangular, shorter than pronotum, about as long as median carina of crown. Face black ( Fig. 2c View FIGURE 2 ). Forewing with some black spots on veins and yellowish brown band ( Fig. 3a, b View FIGURE 3 ).

Male pygofer rectangular, with long posterior process (the structure of the holotype is damaged) from ventral margin ( Fig. 4a View FIGURE 4 ). Aedeagus shaft compressed, curved dorsally and expanded graduall, end flattened, with two unobtrusive ventral processes basal area ( Fig. 4c, d View FIGURE 4 ). Style long, anterior portion longer than caudal portion, caudal portion somewhat robust, apex strongly recurved medioventrally ( Fig. 4c, d View FIGURE 4 ). Connective T-shaped with dorsomedial keel ( Fig. 4c, d View FIGURE 4 ). Other characteristics are as shown in Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 .

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 6.6 mm.

Hosts. Unknown.

Type Material. Holotype ♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Suiyang, Kuankuoshui, Chachang , 2-5 June 2010, coll. Zhang Pei.

Remarks. This species is similar to Midoria deplanata Li & Li , but can be distinguished by the shape of the male pygofer side, the shape of the aedeagal shaft in side view and the shape of the aedeagal ventral processes ( Fig. 4d View FIGURE 4 ). It is unusual in having the lateral preapical processes of the aedeagus relatively short and fused to the sides of the shaft but other characters support including this species in Midoria .

Etymology. The species name refers to the end of aedeagus is flattened.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Ledrinae

Tribe

Ledrini

Genus

Midoria

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