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Head (Fig. 1) width about equal in length to greast width of pronotum. Vertex (Fig. 1) yellow, with a large median apical spot, orange red and with four irregular spots: one pair near posterior margin of crown light brown; other pair smaller, blackishbrwon. Eyes (Figs 1, 2) greyish black. Face (Fig. 2) brownish black, with a orange red spot at its upper part. Anteclypeus quite large and broad, little expanded, nearly pentagonal. Pronotum (Fig. 1) with large irregular nut-brown stripes. Scutellum (Fig. 1) small, triangular; basal triangles blackish brown, a longitudinal dark stripe extended from base to apex. Forewing wax field orange yellow, with several irregular markings as inFig. 3.
Abdominal apodemes (Fig. 4) extended to posterior margin of 4th sternite.
Pygofer lobe (Fig. 5) broad, with few of long macrosetae on lateral surface. Pygofer dorsal appendage immovably fused to margin, its terminal part bifurcate. Subgenital plate (Fig. 6) long, much protruding beyond pygofer lobe, with four basal macrosetae and numerous short rigid setae along upper margin. Style (Fig. 7) broad in middle, long and slender at apical portion, with four sensory pits not far from preapical lobe. Preapical lobe small, but prominent. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 8, 9) curved ventrally, with serrated lateral margin in median; shaft elongated. Preatrium with a large process, its length about as long as that of dorsal apodeme. Gonopore subapical, ventrad. Connective (Fig. 10) Y-shaped, two lateral arms very long, which more than two times of connective stem length; central lobe small, quite vestigial.
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- Yuehua Song, Zizhong Li, Jing Xiong
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- Song Y, Li Z, Xiong J (2011) A new species of the leafhopper genus Diomma Motschulsky (Hemiptera, Cidadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China ZooKeys 83: 57–62
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- Yuehua Song
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- Zizhong Li
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- Jing Xiong