Doraturopsis (Doraturopsis) heros Melichar
Creators: name: Duan, Yani
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Doraturopsis
Doraturopsis heros

description: Doraturopsis (Doraturopsis) heros (Melichar)
(Figures 1–2, Plate I)
Doratura heros Melichar, 1902: 126.
Doratura zolotovi Kusnezov, 1929: 316. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Doraturopsis acutus Lindberg, 1935: 423. Synonymised by Metcalf, 1967, 6(10a): 955. Adoratura desertorum Kusnezov, 1938: 222. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Adoratura fergana Kusnezov, 1938: 225. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Adoratura macrocephala Kusnezov, 1938: 227. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Adoratura pallida Kusnezov, 1938: 228. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Adoratura tamara Dlabola, 1958: 334, Figs 94–100. Synonymised by Nast, 1972: 346. Doraturopsis heros, Kalkandelen, 1974: 89, Figs 42A–F.
Doraturopsis (Doraturopsis) heros, Emeljanov, 1999: 561.
Length. Male: 5.3–6.2mm; female: 8.0– 8.7mm.
Ochraceous with markings as in Plate I: A–E.
Crown width as long as 1.5x length and slightly shorter than pronotum (Plate I: A & B). Ocelli on anterior margin of head 2– 3 x their own diameter from eye. Clypellus parallel-sided (Plate I: C).
Male genitalia. Valve width more than 3x median length, posterior margin medially convex (Fig. 1 B). Subgenital plate triangular divergent apically, with about 8 scattered macrosetae and several fine setae laterally (Fig. 1 B). Style preapical lobe triangular, apophysis moderately long, laterally curved (Figs 1 C–E). Connective with anterior arms closely appressed or crossed, with distinct stem (Fig. 1 F). Aedeagal shaft cylindrical, robust, hinged at base; gonopore large, subapical on dorsal surface (Figs 1 G, 1H).
Female genitalia. Pygofer without macrosetae, with few short fine setae (Plate I: D). Sternite VII truncated on posterior margin (Plate I: E).
Material examined. China: Gansu Prov.: 3 males, Dunhuang, 20–22.VI.1964, coll. Chou Io (Zhou Yao) & Liu Shaoyou (NWAFU); Xinjiang Autonomous Regions: 1 male, Kashi, 1300m, 29.VI.1979, coll. Chen Tong (NWAFU); 1 female, Shule City, Danhu, 1100m, 1.IX.1979, coll. Li Fasheng (CAU); 6 males, 4 females, Changji Agriculture School, 13.XI.1986, coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU); 1 female, Changji Agriculture School, 27.VI.1987, coll. Wang Min (NWAFU); 1 male, 2 females, Kuerle City, 16.XI.1986, coll. Zhang Yalin (NWAFU).
Distribution. Palearctic.
Remarks. Figs 1 C–E show the variation of the style. Fig. 1 C shows the style attached to part of the subgenital plate. As the color of the subgenital plate is similar to the style it has often been figured as a single pincer-shaped structure (Dlabola, 1958; Kalkandelen, 1974; Emeljanov, 1999). When the style is fully dissected it appears as in Figs 1 D and 1E.
PLATE I. Doraturopsis heros A: male habitus, dorsal view; B: female habitus, dorsal view; C: face; D: female habitus, lateral view; E: female pygofer, ventral view; F: first valvula; G: detail of first valvula; H: second valvula; I: detail of second valvula.
description: Published as part of Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, Redescription of the grassland leafhopper genus Doraturopsis Lindberg (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) with description of a new genus and species from China, pp. 24-32 in Zootaxa 3177 on pages 26-28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279927