Uniformus Jiao & Yang 2020
Creators: name: Song, Yuanyuan
name: Huang, Min
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Uniformus

description: Genus Uniformus Jiao & Yang, 2020
Uniformus Jiao & Yang, 2020: 596
Type species: Uniformus rostellatus Jiao & Yang, 2020
Type locality: China (Yunnan)
Description. Body medium-sized, brightly colored with yellowish and orange stripes and patches (Figs 1, 16). Face depressed in lateral view with frontoclypeal area slightly concave (Figs 4, 19). Crown convex with length along midline shorter than distance between eyes, coronal suture distinct and short (Figs 3, 18). Forewing with 4th apical cell not reaching apex (Figs 8, 23); hindwing transparent with anal vein branched (Figs 7, 22).
Abdominal apodemes reaching 4th or 5th abdominal sternite (Figs 12, 26). Pygofer side broad basally with lateral side narrowed and prolonged, row of rigid microsetae along caudal margin (Figs 10, 25). Subgenital plate broad basally and curved dorsad distally, rows of macrosetae and rigid microsetae laterally (Figs 9–10, 24–25). Paramere slender and straight with apex slightly to strongly curved (Figs 15, 30). Connective lamellate with central ridge absent (Figs 11, 26). Aedeagus structurally complex; dorsal apodeme developed; preatrium large with large posteriorly directed process bearing one or more pairs of posterolateral branches bent dorsad; aedeagal shaft tubular, with dense microsetae terminally; gonopore apical (Figs 13–14, 28–29).
Remarks. Uniformus is very similar to Naratettix Matsumura in having the aedeagus with a posterior preatrial process, but Uniformus differs in having the processes of the preatrium bent dorsad distally (bent ventrad in Naratettix), the paramere thin and long (broad and short in Naratettix) and connective with central ridge absent (present in Naratettix).
Check list of the genus Uniformus Jiao & Yang, 2020
Uniformus inclusus Jiao & Yang, 2020
Uniformus inclusus Jiao & Yang, 2020: 597 (Fig A)
Distribution: China (Yunnan)
Uniformus rostellatus Jiao & Yang, 2020
Uniformus rostellatus Jiao & Yang, 2020: 597 (Fig B)
Distribution: China (Yunnan)
Uniformus robustispinus Song and Huang sp. nov. (Figs, 1–15)
Distribution: China (Yunnan)
Uniformus semicircularis Song and Huang sp. nov. (Figs, 16–30)
Distribution: China (Zhejiang)
Key to species of Uniformus (male)
1 Aedeagal shaft with a pair of digitiform ventral processes basally (Fig. 29).................... U. semicircularis sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft without process.......................................................................... 2
2 Subgenital plate extended beyond end of pygofer side........................................................ 3
- Subgenital plate extended not beyond end of pygofer side.................................. U. robustispinus sp. nov.
3 Aedeagus shaft only partly enclosed by subapical processes of preatrium................................. U. inclusus
- Aedeagal shaft encircled by subapical processes of preatrium........................................ U. rostellatus
description: Published as part of Song, Yuanyuan & Huang, Min, 2023, Descriptions of two new species of leafhopper genus Uniformus (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini) from China, pp. 291-295 in Zootaxa 5339 (3) on pages 291-292, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5339.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/8309046