Scaphomonoides Li, 2011

Duan, Ke-Ting, Webb, Mick D. & Xing, Ji-Chun, 2025, Review of Chinese species of the leafhopper genus Scaphomonoides Li, 2011 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Scaphoideini), with description of a new species, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72 (2), pp. 459-463 : 459-463

Scaphomonoides Li, 2011

Scaphomonoides Li (in Li et al. 2011): 259.

Type species.

Scaphotettix redstripeus Li & Wang, 2005 .

Description.

Body ochraceous. Head yellowish with a thin dark brown transverse band anteriorly either side of ocellus. Vertex with an orange arcuate band between eyes. Pronotum with pair of orange arcuate bands.

Head slightly narrower than greatest width of pronotum; ocelli on anterior margin, separated from corresponding eye by approximately their own diameter; vertex longer medially than next to eye, anterior margin distinctly angulate. Face slightly flattened, antenna located near upper corner of eye; anteclypeus flat and slightly expanded from base to apex. Pronotum anterior margin strongly produced, posterior margin slightly concave, with length slightly longer than scutellum. Fore femur with 2 dorsoapical setae, row AM with 1 stout seta, row IC with 14 setae, and row AV with several short setae in basal half. Fore tibia with 3 macrosetae in row AD and numerous macrosetae in row AV. Hind femur with apical setal formula 2 + 2 + 1. Hind tibia flattened and slightly incurved, row AD with approximately 10 long stout setae and 1–3 shorter setae between each long seta; row PD with 15 macrosetae decreasing in length toward base.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with numerous macrosetae on posterior area. Valve subtriangular. Subgenital plate short with several macrosetae on lateral margin; three apical setae dark brown, rest pale. Aedeagus with a pair of processes fused to base of ventral margin; shaft cylindrical with or without apical processes, gonopore apical; dorsal apodeme elongate bifurcate apically. Style broad basally, apical processes short and curved; lateral lobe triangular shaped. Connective Y-shaped with stem very short, articulated with aedeagus.

Remarks.

The appearance of this genus is similar to several other genera of the Scaphoideini : Scaphoideus group (see Wei et al. 2025: 237) with a pair of thin dark transverse bands on the anterior margin of the head and orange transverse bands on the head and thorax. It can be distinguished from other members of this group by a combination of characters in the male genitalia, i. e., aedeagus with pair of basal processes from the ventral margin and basal apodeme elongate, subgenital plate short and stem of connective very short.

Distribution.

Oriental Region: China, Vietnam.