Ziczacella hirayamella
Creators: name: Hossain, Md. Shamim
name: Kwon, Jin Hyung
name: Suh, Sang Jae
name: Kwon, Yong Jung
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Ziczacella
Ziczacella hirayamella

description: Ziczacella hirayamella (Matsumura, 1932)
(Figs. 12–22)
Zygina hirayamella Matsumura, 1932, Ins. Mats. 6: 111 (Japan).
Erythroneura (Ziczacella) hirayamella: Anufriev, 1970, Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. (Ser. Sci. Biol.) 17(11–12): 698 (Korea). Ziczacella hirayamella: Nast, 1972, Pal. Auch. Ann. Check List: 312 (Korean peninsula).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Lee & Kwon, 1977c, Nat. & Life 7(2): 92 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Lee & Kwon, 1979, Ill. Fl. & Faun. Kor. 23, Ins.(VII): 951 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Choe, 1986, Thes. Dr. Agr. Seoul. Nat. Univ.: 46 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Morimoto, 1989, Check list. Jap. Ins. 1: 103 (Korean peninsula).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kim, 1989, Sci. Res. Rep. Ecosys. Three Riv. Cheju City: 106, 126 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kim, 1993, Journ. Cheju. 1(2): 299 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kwon et al., 1994, Check List Ins. Kor.: 92 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kwon & Huh, 1995, Ins. Kor. Suppl. 5: 39 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kwon & Huh, 1995, Ins. Quelp. Isl.: 255 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Kwon & Huh, 2001, Ins. Kor. Suppl.: 299 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Paek et al., 2010, Check List Kor. Ins.: 64 (Korea).
Ziczacella hirayamella: Lee et al., 2014, Nat. List Spec. Kor. Ins. Hem. II: 93 (Korea).
Description. General body color shiny, white. Crown milky whitish, with two medium sized dark brown spots near coronal suture. Face ivory medially, whitish laterally, without conspicuous spot or streak; basal limb of antennae yellowish. Pronotum mainly pale brown, with brown patches anteriorly, with two large irregular whitish patches medially, with median irregular milky and many ivory patches adjacent to posterior and lateral margins. Scutellum dark brown, with two fused pale yellowish triangles; lateral sides yellowish with distinct infuscation posteriorly; scutellar suture prominent. Forewing white, with brown or dark brown zigzag oblique stripes concentrated on clavus and apical cells; hindwing subhyaline. Second sternal apodeme in male with posterior lobes not well developed, extended beyond second sternite.
Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe broadly rounded posteriorly, reaching 2/3 of subgenital plate posteriorly; dorsal process more or less long, curved downward and gradually narrowing to bifurcate apex. Subgenital plate gently upcurved laterally, with 3 macrosetae on outer base. Styles with inner apical process about 1.8–1.9 times as long as outer one. Connective U-shaped, with long and divergent arms. Aedeagal shaft arched, with pair of short subapical lateral processes; basal paired processes strong and hooked.
Length. Male 2.6–2.7mm, female 2.7–2.8mm.
Material examined. Korea, Gyeongbuk Province: 2 males & 1 female, Daegu city, 6.VIII.2012, Y.J. Kwon.
Distribution. Korea (North, Central, Jejudo), Japan (Honshu), Russia (Maritime Territory).
Host plant. Unknown.
description: Published as part of Hossain, Md. Shamim, Kwon, Jin Hyung, Suh, Sang Jae & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the microleafhopper genus Ziczacella Anufriev 1970 from Korea (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), pp. 363-372 in Zootaxa 4571 (3) on page 366, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/2612734