Thagria projecta Distant
Creators: name: Fan, Zhi-Hua
name: Li, Zi-Zhong
name: Dai, Ren-Huai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Thagria
Thagria projecta

description: Thagria projecta (Distant)
(Figs. 214–223)
Dharmma projecta Distant 1908: 324; Metcalf 1964: 23
Sabima prima Distant 1908: 325; Metcalf 1964: 20
Sabima stelifera Distant 1908: 325; Metcalf 1964: 21
Guliga erebus Distant 1908: 326; Metcalf 1964: 28
Sabima aryana Distant 1918: 46; Metcalf 1964: 20
Thagria projecta (Distant), Nielson 1977: 33 –35, Figs. 67–75; Zhang 1990: 92 –93, Fig. 88, after Nielson; Li & Wang 1991: 118, Fig. 61; Li 1993: 30; Zhang 1994: 20, Fig. 11, after Nielson; Nielson 2013: 96
Distribution. China (Guangxi, Zhejiang, Hubei, Fujian, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Guangdong, Beibu Gulf); Assam; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Vietnam; India.
Material examined. 1♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Pingxiang, Youyiguan, 1 June 1997, coll. Yang Maofa; 5♂, CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan, Tengchong, 14–15 July 2002, coll. Li Zizhong & Dai Renhuai; 3♂, CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan, Longling, 24 Aug. 2002, coll. Li Zizhong; 12♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Leigongshan, 31 July to 4 Aug. 2004, coll. Xu Pian, Liao Qirong & Song Qiongzhang; 9♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Daozhen, Dashahe, 17–20 Aug. 2004, coll. Yang Maofa; 1♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Damingshan, 22 July 2007, coll. Zhang Yubo; 1♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Laibin, Jinxiu, Changdong, 18 May 2009, coll. Zheng Yanli; 3♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Kuankuoshui, 10–13 Aug. 2010, coll. Zhang Bin, Li Yujian & Song Qiongzhang; 6♂, CHINA: Yunnan, Baoshan, Baihualing, 13–14 June 2011, coll. Li Yujian & Long Jiankun; 2♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Fanjingshan, 21 Sep. 2011, coll. Fan Zhihua & Long Jiankun; 6♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Chongzuo, Daxin, Detian, 11–12 May 2012, coll. Fan Zhihua & Li Hu; 9♂, CHINA: Hubei, Yichang, Wufenghouhe, 22–24 July 2013, coll. Chang Zhimin & Xing Dongliang; 10♂, CHINA: Yunnan, Dehong, Lianghe, Mengyang, 27 July 2013, coll. Fan Zhihua & Yang Weicheng; 23♂, CHINA: Hunan, Badagongshan, 2–6 Aug. 2013, coll. Chang Zhimin, Li Hu, Xing Dongliang, Qu Ling & Wu Yunfei; 1♂, CHINA: Yunnan, Gaoligongshan, 6 Aug. 2013, coll. Sun Haiyan (GUGC).
Variation. Based on the examined specimens, this species is without band on the base of clypeus (Nielson 1977: 34, Fig. 71) in Yunnan or with a shallow V-shaped orange band (Figs. 217) in Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi.
Remarks. This species was placed in the genus by Nielson (1977), and described from the holotype (female) from BMNH. It is similar to T. philagroides (Jacobi, 1914), T. bispina Zhang, 1990, T. conica Zhang, 1990 and T. birama Zhang, 1994 in external morphology. The style is bifurcate (Fig. 221), but differs in having three to four processes (Figs. 209, 211–213; Nielson 1977: 36, Fig. 79) in T. philagroides; T. projecta has the paraphysis without process (Fig. 221), but two basal processes are present in T. bispina (Figs. 33, 36); the ventral processes of segment X are short, with one small spine distally in T. projecta (Fig. 218), while in T. conica this pair of processes are long, slender, and pointed distally (Fig. 54); and the shape of the paraphysis, style and ventral processes of segment X are different in both T. birama and T. projecta (Figs. 21, 23, 219, 221).
description: Published as part of Fan, Zhi-Hua, Li, Zi-Zhong & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Thagria Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from Guangxi, China, pp. 451-491 in Zootaxa 3918 (4) on pages 465-466, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253917