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Gurawa minorcephala Pruthi. A 1930

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China. & School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China.
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China.

Description

Gurawa minorcephala Pruthi, 1930

(Plate I, Figures 1–2)

Gurawa minorcephala Pruthi, 1930: 29, Plate II-Figs 10, 10a, 10b, Text-Figs 41–42; Zahniser, 2008: 22, Figs 77–85; Dai, Xing & Li, 2011: 38, Fig. 1.

Length. Male: 4.0– 4.7mm; female: 4.2mm.

Brownish-yellow with dark brown markings (Plate I: A–C). Vertex with broad longitudinal piceous median fascia, sometimes two or four fuscous spots on lateral margin (Plate I: A–B); face with black markings (Plate I: D). Pronotum with indistinct longitudinal shadings, one central pale carinate line, sometimes with indistinct lateral pale carinate lines and with a series of transverse linear dark spots before anterior margin (Plate I: A–B). Scutellum usually with piceous spot near each basal angle (Plate I: A–B).

Vertex shorter than interocular width (Plate I: A–B). Face longer than wide (Plate I: D). Pronotum shorter than vertex (Plate I: A–B). Scutellum nearly as long as pronotum (Plate I: A–B). Forewing inner anteapical cell either closed or open basally (Plate I: A–C).

Male genitalia. Pygofer side constricted preapically, hind margin slightly truncate (Figs 1A–B). Style preapical lobe stout and short, angular; apophysis long, digitate (Fig. 1D). Aedeagus arcuate in lateral view, apex widened with pair of short, pointed apical processes, lateral margin serrate (Figs 1F–G).

Female. Sternite VII posterior margin as in Plate I: E.

Material examined. China: Yunnan Prov.: 1♂, Jinping County, 1900m, 10.vi.2009, coll. Cui Wei (NWAFU); 1♀, Luchun County, 08.vi.2009, coll. Cui Wei (NWAFU); 1♂, Tengchong County, 1632m, 05.vi.2011, coll. Lu Lin (NWAFU); Shaanxi Prov.: 2♂, Feng County, Liufengguan, 17.vii.1995, coll. Zhang Wenzhu & Ren Liyun (NWAFU).

Distribution. China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi); India.

Remarks. Pruthi described this species from India based on two males and two females from India. Identification of our Chinese materal is made from a comparison of Pruthi’s figure of the male genitalia, in particular the shape of the aedeagal apex in lateral view. Li’s (1986) record of G. vexillum from China, may be this species. His figure (habitus only), is very similar to G. minorcephala. Zahniser (2008) provided good photographs of this species, including the male and female genitalia.

Notes

Published as part of Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, A taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genera Gurawa Distant and Chiasmus Mulsant & Rey (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from China with description of a new species, pp. 41-52 in Zootaxa 3537 on page 44

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
NWAFU
Event date
1995-07-17 , 2009-06-08 , 2009-06-10 , 2011-06-05
Verbatim event date
1995-07-17 , 2009-06-08 , 2009-06-10 , 2011-06-05
Scientific name authorship
Pruthi. A
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Gurawa
Species
minorcephala
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Gurawa minorcephala A, 1930 sec. Duan & Zhang, 2012

References

  • Pruthi, H. S. (1930) Studies on Indian Jassidae (Homoptera). Part I. Introductory and Description of some new genera and species. Memoirs of the Indian Museum, 11 (1), 1 - 68.
  • Zahniser, J. N. (2008) Seven new species and new distributions of Old World Chiasmini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with a redescription, key to genera, and species checklist for the tribe. Zootaxa, 1808, 1 - 32.
  • Dai, R. H., Xing, J. C. & Li, H. (2011) A new record species of Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China. Guizhou Science, 29 (4), 38 - 39.
  • Li, Z. Z. (1986) Two new record genera and two new record species of Cicadellidae from China. Journal of Mountain Agriculture & Biology, 2, 115 - 116.