Cicimora Emeljanov, 1998

Chen, Xiang-Sheng & Gong, Nian, 2025, Taxonomic study of the Caliscelidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoroidea) from China, Zootaxa 5670 (1), pp. 1-129 : 65

Cicimora Emeljanov, 1998 , rec. nov.

Cicimora Emeljanov, 1998: 565 .

Type species. Cicimora sicildia Emeljanov, 1998 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Body large, 13.5–15.4 mm typically. Head with long spiny process in the center of the apical margin of the vertex. Head including eyes distinctly narrower than width of pronotum. Vertex and frons extend in bullet-shape to the front of the eyes, tilted down. Vertex nearly rectangle, disc depressed, with length in middle line 4 times longer than width at base; posterior margin roundly concave, sublateral margins parallel; in lateral view, sinuated. Frons with length in midline distinctly longer than maximum width, with median carina. Clypeus slightly raised, with median carina. Rostrum long, reaching posterior trochanters. Pronotum distinct shorter than vertex, anterior margin roundly convex strongly in the middle, posterior margin roundly concave broadly, lateral domain rather broad and large. Mesonotum nearly triangle, widest part slightly longer than the middle length, carinae obscure. Forewing subhyaline, relatively narrow, parallel-sided; veins distinct, claval suture present, ScP+R and M united in basal sixth, ScP+R forking close to nodal transverse line; MP with seven branches after nodal line, reticulate; CuA with two branches after nodal line; Pcu uniting A1 at basal 1/3 of clavus. Hindwing hyaline, longer than half length of forewing, with 2 lobes, anal cleft deep; ScP, MP and CuA each with 2 branches, RP single. Abdomen elongate, narrowly cylindrical, with anterior and posterior margins of terga and sterna respectively transverse and chevronlike. Fore femora and tibiae rectangular dilated, hind tibia with a single lateral tooth; spinal formula of hind leg 6-0-0, indicating number of spines at apex of hind tibia and tarsomeres I and II respectively.

Male genitalia. Anal segment in dorsal view with apex bifurcated, anal pore near apex. Pygofer in profile with dorsal margin and ventral margin parallel; posterior margin with claviform process in the middle, upper 1/3 roundly convex; in ventral view, posterior margin with a nearly heart-shape medioventral process. Genital style rather large and long, widest part at apex, a triangular process arising from dorsal margin apically, directed dorsad. Aedeagus simple, tubular, apical 1/3 divided into two slender processes, dorsally reflexed.

Female genitalia. Anal segment rather short and small, nearly quadrangle. Abdominal sternite VII large, posterior margin roundly convex strongly in the middle. Gonapophysis VIII elongate, with six spines at apical margin. Gonapophysis IX with two symmetrical lobes, each lobe with many large spines at dorsal margin. Gonoplac with outer surface shagreen; in lateral view broad, nearly triangle, dorsal margin deeply concave.

Host plant. Bamboo.

Distribution. China (Xizang and Yunnan Province).

Remarks. The genus is closely related to Augilodes ( Distant, 1906) , but differs in: 1) fore femora and tibiae rectangular dilated (fore femora and tibiae foliately dilated in Augilodes ); 2) pronotum with lateral domain rather broad and large (narrow in Augilodes ); 3) forewing with nodal line (without nodal line in Augilodes ).

Note. The genus was discovered by Emeljanov (1998) with female species in Vietnam. Newly recorded genus in China. The male specimens are first collected and described in Xizang and Yunnan Province, China.