Cladolidia Nielson, 2015

Yang, Li, Jin, Mengyuan, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2025, Two new species of tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from the Oriental Reigon, Zootaxa 5665 (1), pp. 130-136 : 131

Cladolidia Nielson, 2015

Cladolidia Nielson, 2015: 14

Type-species: Lodiana cladopenis Zhang, 1990 , by original designation.

Description. Body robust and size moderate, length 7.20–9.00 mm. Color asphalt black to fuscous, forewings with ochraceous bands or specks.

Head narrower than pronotum. Crown produced beyond anterior margin of eyes. Ocelli small, located near anterior margin of crown; eyes large, hemispherical, occupying about 2/3 of entire dorsal area of head. Face with frontoclypeus narrow and elongated or broad and short, with fine granular protuberances on the surface, without median longitudinal carina, lateral margins convex; clypellus long with apex expanded laterally. Pronotum broad and short, often with tubercular protrusions, median length approximately equal to median length of crown; scutoscutellar sulcus prominent, median length of mesonotum greater than median length of pronotum. Forewings longer than abdomen, with veins distinct, 3 ante-apical cells, outer one closed, and 5 apical cells, appendix well developed.

Male genitalia. Aedeagus long, more or less broadly tubular, never narrowly tubular, always constricted, slightly to broadly inflated on one or each side of constriction, sometimes shaft broadly incurvated medially with toothed margin, processes long, subapical or near middle, often attached to narrow or broad flange near middle of shaft, dorsal margin of shaft often toothed apically; pygofer glabrous to setose; style often with well-developed apophysis; subgenital plate glabrous or with microsetae, never with apical spine.

Remarks. Cladolidia is similar to other Oriental genera of Coelidiini that possess a broad, aedeagal shaft ( Tumidorus , Jenolidia , Zhangolidia , Laosolidia , Mahellus ) but can be distinguished from them by the combination of: 1) aedeagal shaft with preapical flange adorned with processes; 2) style robust and 3) subgenital plate without apical spine.