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Thagria periserrula Zhang

Description

Thagria periserrula Zhang

(Figs. 191–201)

Thagria periserrula Zhang 1994: 48 –49, Fig. 44; Nielson 2013: 96

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan); Laos; Vietnam.

Material examined. 2♂ 2♀, CHINA: Guizhou, Libo, Dongtang, 22 May 1995, coll. Chen Xiangsheng; 4♂, CHINA: Guizhou, Libo, Maolan, 25 May 1998, coll. Li Zizhong; 1♂, CHINA: Hainan, Jianfengling, 12 July 2007, coll. Song Qiongzhang; 1♂, CHINA: Hainan, Bawangling, 27 April 2009, coll. Jiang Xiaohong; 1♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Longzhou, Nonggang, 6 May 2012; 1♂, CHINA: Hainan, Wuzhishan, 3 April 2013, coll. Li Bin; 2♂ 2♀, CHINA: Hainan, Bawangling, 13–16 April 2014, coll. Yang Weicheng, Long Jiankun, Sun Haiyan & Xu Fangling; 1♂, CHINA: Hainan, Jianfengling, 23 April 2014, coll. Long Jiankun (GUGC).

Variation. Based on the examined specimens, the pygofer caudoventral lobe is long and bluntly narrowed in lateral view and the segment X ventral processes are long, exceeding the apex of pygofer in specimens from Guangxi, Guizhou (Fig. 195), but in Hainan both are relatively short (Fig. 201).

Remarks. This species was described from the holotype (male) from ZSU (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China). It resembles T. vastestyla Wang & Li, 2002 in general appearance, but differs in having the ventral processes of segment X straight (Figs. 195, 201), versus curved in T. vastestyla (Wang & Li 2002: 2, Fig. 2); the paraphysis lateral margins are toothed, without process, and the style is slender with the apex pointed (Fig. 198), whereas in T. vastestyla there are two processes on the paraphysis, and the style is broad, with apex expanded (Wang & Li 2002: 2, Figs. 4, 6).

Notes

Published as part of Fan, Zhi-Hua, Li, Zi-Zhong & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Thagria Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from Guangxi, China, pp. 451-491 in Zootaxa 3918 (4) on page 464, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253917

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Zhang
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Thagria
Species
periserrula
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Zhang, Y. L. (1994) A taxonomic study of Chinese Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Henan Science and Technology Press, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, 151 pp.
  • Nielson, M. W. (2013) New species in the genus Thagria Melichar from the Oriental and Australian regions, with a revised key to genera and species and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae). Zootaxa, 3625 (1), 1 - 105. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3625.1
  • Wang, L. M. & Li, Z. Z. (2002) A new species of genus Thagria from Guizhou province in China (Homoptera: Cicadellidae, Coelidiinae). Entomological Journal of East China, 11 (2), 1 - 2.