Hecaloidella nitida

Redescription. Body length (including tegmina), male: 4.5 – 4.8 mm; female: 5.2 – 6.2 mm. Head and thorax dorsally pale sordid yellow. Thorax and abdomen ventrally brown. Forewings brownish hyaline. Male genitalia with subgenital plate elongate triangular basally with short digitate apex, with a few short fine setae laterobasally. Connective with arms separated distally or joined loop-shaped, stem extended caudally into a long dorsally curved process, distally with a dorsal medial keel. Aedeagus very small, disassociated from connective; shaft very short and stout, terminating in a pair of short recurved hook-like processes, with a short to long spine-like process basally; gonopore apical on ventral surface.

Sumber: Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species

This group comprises five species (H. bimaculata, H. caudospina, H. nitida, H. nudapenis and H. pacifica) with the following combination of characters: vertex usually orange at least anteriorly with a pair of anterior spots; vertex with distinct longitudinal or oblique striations at least to anterior transverse sulcus; pronotum with distinct transverse striations; forewings with outer subapical cell tapered basally (Figs 2 B, 3 D); aedeagus disassociated from connective, very small or relatively large (H. bimaculata), shaft short and robust, laterally compressed, with or without processes.

Sumber: Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species