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Salka cambera Song & Li, 2016, sp. nov.

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Salka cambera sp. nov. (Figs 8–15)

Description. Dorsum dark brown. Vertex with large central black patch (Fig. 8). Eyes black (Fig. 8). Pronotum dark brown, with single transverse oval impression medially (Fig. 8). Scutellum also dark brown (Fig. 8). Fore wing dark brown, with brochosome field, 3rd apical cell, 4th apical cell and adjacent area light brown (Fig. 10).

Male abdominal apodemes not exceeding 3rd sternite (Fig. 9).

Male genitalia: Pygofer lobe with dorsal appendage broad at base and narrow at apex (Fig. 11). Subgenital plate with 3 macrosetae on outer surface and row of short setae along upper margin irregular at base and uniseriate distally (Fig. 11). Style apex truncate, with 3 points in lateral view (Fig. 12). Aedeagal shaft tubular, slender, curved dorsad in lateral view, dorsal apodeme with single fingerlike process extended dorsally, apex of shaft with pair of slender processes extended posterodorsad; preatrium small; gonopore apical on ventral surface (Figs 13, 14). Connective U-shaped, without central lobe (Fig. 15).

Specimen examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Henan Prov., Mt. Baiyun, 1300~ 1400 m, 17-VIII-2008, coll. Yuehua Song and Can Li. Paratype: 2♀♀, same data as holotype.

Measurement. Body length male 2.7 mm, females 2.8–3.0 (including wing).

Remarks. This species is close to Salka belanda Sohi & Mann (1994), but differs in having the aedeagal shaft without paired subapical processes (Figs 13, 14); the dorsal apodeme of aedeagus with a single fingerlike process (Fig. 13); and the connective U-shaped, without central lobe (Fig. 15).

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ cambera ”, referring to the C-shaped aedeagal shaft (Fig. 13).

Notes

Published as part of Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2016, New additions to the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Hainan and Henan Provinces of China, pp. 445-450 in Zootaxa 4092 (3) on page 449, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.3.11, http://zenodo.org/record/261202

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Salka
Species
cambera
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
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Salka cambera Song & Li, 2016