Dendrophora Melichar 1903
Creators: name: Song, Zhi-Shun
name: Szwedo, Jacek
name: Wang, Rong-Rong
name: Liang, Ai-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Russulales
Peniophoraceae
Dendrophora

description: DENDROPHORA MELICHAR, 1903 STAT. REV.   
 Dendrophora Melichar, 1903: 21.   
 Synonymized under Aselgeia Walker, 1851 by Melichar 1905: 281.   
 Synonymized under Aluntia Stål, 1866 by Distant 1906: 237 and here resurrected.   
 Type species   
 Dendrophora ramosa Melichar, 1903; by original designation.   
 Diagnosis   
The genus can be separated from other Aluntiini genera by the following combination of characters: frons with intermediate carinae weakly ridged, median carina incomplete, absent in middle; tegmina somewhat trun- cate apically, with numerous dendroid nodose veins; Sc+R and M branched before CuA at basal one-third; apical area densely covered with transverse veins; costal cell distinctly broad, with dendroid nodose veins in entire area; and aedeagus with a pair of slender, elongate, sclerotized endosomal processes.  
 Redescription   
Body distinctly large and robust. General colour ochraceous in dead specimens (probably viridescent or stramineous green in life).  
 Head (Figs 7A–C, 9A–C) as long as or a little longer than pronotum and mesonotum combined. Cephalic process (Figs 7B, 9B) more or less compressed dorsoventrally. Vertex (Figs 7A, 9A) with median carina absent, only median furrowed suture visible between eyes; lateral carinae ridged, nearly parallel, relatively broad and flat towards apex; anterior margin angulately convex at ∼90°, posterior margin indistinct, sloped down into the pronotum. Frons (Figs 7C, 9C) with intermediate carinae converging posteriorly and extending before compound eyes; median carina incomplete, distinct at apex and base, absent in middle. Rostrum, eyes, ocelli, and antennae similar to Aluntia.   
 Pronotum and mesonotum (Figs 7C, 9C) similar to Aluntia, but mesonotum with lateral carinae more or less curved outwards. Tegmina (Fig. 2C) transparent, large, and broad, nearly 2.4–2.5 times as long as broad; apex somewhat truncate; anterior margin distinctly expanded into broad sclerotized costal area; basal twothirds to four-fifths with dendroid veins densely interspersed among longitudinal veins; Sc+R and M branched before CuA at basal one-third; M 3+4 bifurcating M 3 and M 4 not beyond the middle; Sc+R, M, and CuA branching into accessory veins successively four times; apical area densely covered with transverse veins, with 21–25 apical cells; costal cell distinctly broad, with numerous dendroid veins in entire area. Legs similar to Aluntia.   
 Male genitalia with pygofer similar to Aluntia, in lateral view posterior margin more or less projecting near upper middle (Figs 7E, 9E), in dorsal view
description: Published as part of Song, Zhi-Shun, Szwedo, Jacek, Wang, Rong-Rong & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2016, Systematic revision of Aluntiini Emeljanov, 1979 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae: Dictyopharinae): reclassification, phylogenetic analysis, and biogeography, pp. 349-398 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176 (2) on page 359, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12319, http://zenodo.org/record/5357644