Aconurella prolixa Matsumura
Creators: name: Duan, Yani
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Aconurella
Aconurella prolixa

description: Aconurella prolixa (Matsumura)
(Figure 1, Plate I, Plate VII)
Thamnotettix prolixa Lethierry, 1885: 102.
Doratulina orientalis Matsumura, 1914: 233; Ishihara, 1954: 377, Fig. 1, Taiwan. syn. n.
Thamnotettix minutus Haupt, 1917: 254. Synonymised by Dlabola, 1963: 324.
Deltocephalus simplex Haupt, 1927: 29. (Prim.hom.)
Thamnotettix sanguisuga Lindberg, 1927: 88. Synonymised by Metcalf, 1967: 1597.
Cicadula indica Pruthi, 1930: 54. Synonymised by Khatri & Webb, 2010: 9.
Deltocephalus obtusus Metcalf, 1955: 266. (nom.nov. for Deltocephalus simplex Haupt, 1927, not D. simplex Van Duzee, 1892: 304)
Chiasmus karachiensis Ahmed, Qadeer & Malik, 1988: 13, Figs 3 A–J. Synonymised by Khatri & Webb, 2010: 9.
Chiasmus lobata Ahmed, Qadeer & Malik, 1988: 14, Figs 4 A–J. Synonymised by Khatri & Webb, 2010: 9.
Aconurella neosolana Rao & Ramakrishnan, 1990: 268, Fig. 1. Synonymised by Khatri & Webb, 2010: 9.
Length. Male: 2.8–3.0mm; female: 2.9–3.9mm.
Greenish-ochraceous (Plate I: A, B). Vertex with a central spot, two transversely striae between eyes, markings sometimes reduced to absent (Plate I: E–I). Frontoclypeus entirely black or ochraceous, obliquely striae in the lateral regions (Plate I: J). Forewing macropterous (Plate I: A, B).
Male genitalia. The darkly sclerotized part of pygofer side on posteroventral margin more than half its length, with small spines, dorsoapical margin without or with sparse small spinules (Figs 1 A–C); connective with arms close together distally (Fig. 1 G); aedeagus shaft gently curved dorsally (Fig. 1 H).
Female. Sternite VII produced in middle (Plate I: D).
Material examined. China: Zhejiang Prov.: 13, Qingliang Mountain, 530m, 09.viii.2008, coll. Xiao Bin (NWAFU); Anhui Prov.: 13, 1Ƥ, Huoshan Mountain, vii.2011 (NWAFU); Fujian Prov.: 13, 1Ƥ, Wuping County, 320m, 01.ix.2008, coll. Xiao Bin (NWAFU); Jiangxi Prov.: 33, Anfu County, 10.viii.2002, coll. Yuan Zhonglin (NWAFU); Guangdong Prov.: 13, Guangzhou City, 11.iii.2006, coll. Zhai Xin & Li Jun (NWAFU); Guangxi Prov.: 33, Shiwandashan Park, 29/ 30.xi.2001, coll. Wang Zongqing (NWAFU); Hainan Prov.: 33, 3Ƥ, Yacheng County, 14.iv.1983, coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU); Yunnan Prov.: 23, 2Ƥ, Simao City, 1331m, 29.vii.2005, coll. Lu Lin (NWAFU); Shaanxi Prov.: 1Ƥ, Dingbian County, 23.v.2006, coll. Yang Zhaofu (NWAFU); Xinjiang Autonomous Region: 53, 2Ƥ, Yining City, 28.vii.2006, coll. Kang Juxia (NWAFU).
Distribution. China (Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Taiwan); France; Russia; Georgia; Azerbaijan; Serbia; Spain; Sudan; Iraq; France; Canary Islands; Italy; Romania; Portugal; Jordan; Saudi Arabia; Ethiopia; Pakistan; Japan; India.
Remarks. Based on the figures of A. orientalis (Ishihara, 1954: 377, Fig. 1), it should be a synonym of this species. Although the aedeagus apex is slightly different, this difference could be an artifact of the perspective of drawing.
PLATE I. Aconurella prolixa (Matsumura). A & B: habitus, dorsal view; C: habitus, lateral view; D: the end of female abdomen, ventral view; E–I: head and thorax, dorsal view; J: face.
description: Published as part of Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, A taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Aconurella Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from China with the description of two new species, pp. 28-44 in Zootaxa 3397 on pages 29-30, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281804