Published October 28, 2020 | Version v1
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Etmaria ulterior Cao & Zhang 2020, sp. nov.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China & Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & caoyh @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0515 - 0767
  • 2. Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & arboridia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3293 - 4794
  • 3. Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & chdietri @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4005 - 4305
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China

Description

16. Etmaria ulterior Cao & Zhang sp. nov.

Figs 11, 19 q–t

Description. Ground color light yellowish-brown, eyes black. Crown fore margin rounded apically, coronal suture distinct basally, anteclypeus relatively short.

Anal tube appendage slim, slightly serrated on cephalic margin, located near middle of anal tube.

Boundary between basal and distal pygofer lobes rounded; pair of ventral appendages asymmetrical, tubular, one directed caudad, other bent cephalad, without rigid setae at base. Subgenital plate with about 3 macrosetae. Style with apical part thick and very short, straight in dorsal view, apex pointed and hooked in lateral view. Connective broad and short, manubrium very short, central lobe with fore margin slightly convex. Aedeagal shaft thick and slightly sinuated, directed dorsad, atrium very long in lateral view, widened medially in caudal view; dorsal apodeme rudimentary; preatrial processes slim and straight, far from aedeagal shaft.

Measurement. Male length 3.30 mm.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Yingjiang, Nabang, 284m, 24°46'12''N, 97°54'35''E, 03 v 2012, coll. Yanghui Cao. [NWAFU].

Etymology. The new specific epithet is derived from Latin adjective “ ulterior ” which means far, referring to that the preatrial processes far from the aedeagal shaft.

Diagnosis. The new species can be distinguished by the asymmetrical pygofer ventral appendages, the shortened, widened connective and the slim preatrial processes which are far from the aedeagal shaft.

Notes

Published as part of Cao, Yanghui, Dmitriev, Dmitry A., Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, Review of the leafhopper genus Thaia Ghauri and related genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), pp. 331-367 in Zootaxa 4868 (3) on page 350, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4417761

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NWAFU
Event date
2012-05-03
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Etmaria
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Cao & Zhang
Species
ulterior
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
2012-05-03
Taxonomic concept label
Etmaria ulterior Cao & Zhang, 2020