Destinoides Cai & He 2000
Creators: name: Huang, Weijian
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Destinoides

description: Genus Destinoides Cai & He
Destinoides Cai & He, 2000: 57
Type species: Destinoides fasciata Cai & He, by original designation (= D. latifrons (Walker)).
Diagnosis. Destinoides is similar to Petalocephala and Destinia but can be distinguished by: crown shorter, about half as long as wide, longer than pronotum in the middle (crown of Destinia shorter than pronotum); body more robust; pronotum without lateral extensions (Tituria, Thlasia, Dusuna and Neotituria with lateral extensions); pronotum not declivous or humped; lateral margins of crown immediately in front of eyes usually parallel to convergent; scutellum longer than pronotum (similar to Destinia, scutellum of Petalocephala usually shorter than pronotum); pygofer without process on upper hind angle (Destinia with a horizontal process); style slender and flat (style of Destinia thick), curved ventrally at apex, with a small subapical tooth laterally (style of Petalocephala without any tooth).
Description. Body medium to large (9–15mm) and robust. Lateral margins of head and pronotum dark. Dorsum densely punctate, acinose (Figs. 1–6).
Head about as wide as pronotum, flat; longer than anterior margin of scutellum. Crown smooth, slightly convex, produced forward, anterior margin angulate, setae absent. Coronal suture complete and distinct (Figs. 1, 4). Ocelli welldeveloped, near posterior margin of crown, equidistant from eye and each other (Figs. 1, 4). Head approximately as long as half width between eyes, concave in lateral view (Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5). Clypeal suture distinct. Frontoclypeus narrow and convex, broadened medially; frontoclypeus apical extension not well-defined. Anteclypeus small, distinctly convex, parallel-sided and extending beyond gena. Lora and genae flat (Figs. 3, 6). Antennae slightly longer than eye, extended nearly to margin of face; antennal ledges not distinct (Figs. 3, 6). Proepisternum large and quadrate (Figs. 3, 6). Pronotum broad and flat, anterior margin slightly convex, posterior margin slightly concave (Figs. 1–6). Scutellum triangular, shorter than head. Scutellar suture distinct, reaching lateral margin (Figs. 1, 4). Forewing punctate, venation regular in basal area, reticulate apically; appendix reduced (Figs. 2, 5). Hind wings hyaline, fully-developed. Pro- and mesothoracic leg chaetotaxy reduced. Hind femur macrosetal formula 2 + 1; hind tibia with 5 to 8 stout and enlarged setae perpendicular to axis of leg anterodorsally (AD); posterodorsal (PD) setae short and fine; anteroventral (AV) and posteroventral (PV) setae shorter and finer.
Male 8th sternite about as long as 7th sternite, posterior margin strongly concave medially (Figs. 13, 20). Male pygofer almost triangular, without macrosetae; ventroposterior margin with dorsally directed process (Figs. 10, 17). Subgenital plates ligulate and depressed, fused at base, tapered to rounded apex, with numerous short setae on ventral surface (Figs. 11, 18). Aedeagal shaft tubular or slightly lamellate, curved dorsally, generally with single and paired processes arising terminally (Figs. 7, 8, 14, 15). Style slender and flat, curved ventrally at apex, with a small subapical tooth laterally (Figs. 7, 8, 14, 15). Connective short, T-shaped (Figs. 7–9, 14–16).
Distribution. China, India.
description: Published as part of Huang, Weijian & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, Two new species in the genus Destinoides (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae, Ledrinae) from China, with DNA barcoding data, pp. 571-578 in Zootaxa 4711 (3) on pages 572-573, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4711.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/3586697