Arthropoda Ishihara 1953
Creators: name: Zahniser, James N.
name: Dietrich, Chris H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda

description: Paraboloponina Ishihara, 1953
Fig. 20
Type genus: Parabolopona Matsumura, 1912.
Diagnosis
Paraboloponina are medium sized to large leafhoppers, and are variable in shape and color. They can be distinguished from Drabescina by the antennal ledges which are weak or absent, antennae usually longer, 1.5 x width of head or longer, texture of the frontoclypeus shagreen, protibia rounded dorsally or rarely somewhat flattened, and forewing appendix not especially large.
Description
HEAD. Head subequal to or wider than pronotum. Discal portion of crown glabrous with radial or longitudinal striae, or shagreen. Anterior margin of head glabrous, irregularly textured, foliaceous, with numerous transverse striations, with 2 or 3 parallel carinae, or with numerous carinae. Frontoclypeus not tumid; texture shagreen or striate. Clypellus widening apically, apex following or slightly surpassing normal curve of gena. Lorum subequal to or wider than clypellus near base. Antennal bases near upper or anterodorsal corners of eyes. Antennal pits often very large and encroaching onto frontoclypeus. Antennae long, 1.5 x width of head or longer. Gena not incised or obtusely incised laterally; with fine erect seta beside laterofrontal suture. Antennal ledges absent or weakly developed (carinate or weakly carinate). Ocelli present; close to or distant from eyes; on anterior margin of head.
THORAX. Pronotum lateral margin carinate; lateral margin shorter than basal width of eye.
WINGS. Forewings macropterous; appendix restricted to anal margin; with 3 anteapical cells; veins not raised; without or with reflexed costal veins; A1-A2 crossvein absent or present; apical venation not highly reticulate.
LEGS. Profemur with AM1 seta only; intercalary row with one row of five or more fine setae; row AV with thin, hair-like setae or without setae, or rarely with short, stout setae. Protibia dorsal surface rounded, convex. Mesofemur row AV sometimes with several long macrosetae. Metafemur apex macrosetae 2+1 or 2+1+1 or 2+2+1. Metatarsomere I not expanded apically, plantar setae simple, tapered.
MALE GENITALIA. Valve articulated with pygofer; with short point of articulation with pygofer. Pygofer basolateral membranous cleft present; macrosetae absent or reduced (≤ two rows) or well differentiated into several rows. Subgenital plates free from each other; articulated with valve; without macrosetae or with macrosetae scattered, irregularly arranged or uniseriate laterally. Style broadly bilobed basally, median anterior lobe pronounced. Basal processes of the aedeagus/connective absent or reduced or present, connected or articulated to connective or near base of aedeagus. Aedeagus without basal hinge; with a single shaft and gonopore. Connective anterior arms somewhat divergent, Y - or U -shaped; articulated with aedeagus.
FEMALE GENITALIA. Pygofer with numerous macrosetae. Ovipositor not protruding far beyond pygofer apex. First valvula convex; dorsal sculpturing pattern strigate, concatenate, or reticulate; sculpturing reaching dorsal margin; without distinctly delimited ventroapical sculpturing. Second valvula abruptly broadened medially or subapically or gradually broadened medially or subapically; with or without dorsal median tooth; teeth on apical 1/3 or more or restricted to apical 1/4 or less; teeth small, regularly or irregularly shaped.
Geography and ecology
Distribution: Palearctic, Afrotropical, Oriental and Australian regions.
Remarks
Paraboloponina contains 36 genera and 132 species.
Included genera
Athysanopsis Matsumura, 1914
Bhatia Distant, 1908
Canopyana Viraktamath & Srinivasa, 2006
Carvaka Distant, 1918
Divus Distant, 1908
Drabescoides Kwon & Lee, 1979
Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy, 1906
Eminea Seven, 1997
Favintiga Webb, 1981
Halimunella Kamitani, 2012
Hybrasil Kirkaldy, 1907
Indokutara Viraktamath, 1998
Isaca Walker, 1857
Jamitettix Matsumura, 1940
Karoseefa Webb, 1981
Kotabala Viraktamath, 1998
Kutara Distant, 1908
Megabyzus Distant, 1908
Mysolis Kirkaldy, 1904
Nakula Distant, 1918
Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb, 1996
Oceanopona Linnavuori, 1960
Odmiella Linnavuori, 1978
Odzalana Linnavuori, 1969
Omanella Merino, 1936
Parabolopona Matsumura, 1912
Parohinka Webb, 1981
Rhutelorbus Webb, 1981
Roxasella Merino, 1936
Roxasellana Zhang & Zhang, 1998
Sombakidia Zhang & Webb, 1996
Stenomiella Evans, 1955
Tengatka Zhang & Webb, 1996
Tenompoella Zhang & Webb, 1996
Waigara Zhang & Webb, 1996
Welmaya Zhang & Webb, 1996
description: Published as part of Zahniser, James N. & Dietrich, Chris H., 2013, A review of the tribes of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae), pp. 1-211 in European Journal of Taxonomy 45 on pages 72-74, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.45, http://zenodo.org/record/3822710