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Biprocessa jiaoi Yang & Li 2005, comb. nov.

Description

Biprocessa jiaoi (Yang & Li, 2005) comb. nov.

Atkinsoniella jiaoi Yang & Li, in Yang, Song & Li, 2005: 138. (Figs 1–13)

Type-locality: Guizhou (China)

Description. Length. 7.2–7.6mm.

Coloration. Head and thorax pale in dorsal view. Vertex with a small round black spot; ocelli, area around ocelli, and eyes black. Pronotum with median small black spot; basal angles of mesonotum with small spot (indistinct in some females). Forewing pale to orange-yellow, inner and outer margins usually deep orange-yellow or orange-red. Face, thoracic sternum and legs pale; abdomen yellow in ventral view.

External features. Width between ocelli slightly more than to adjacent eye. Other features as in generic diagnosis.

Male genitalia. Pygofer (Fig. 2) angulate posterodorsally; disk with median and apical portion with macrosetae; pygofer process with apical 2/3 bent dorsally. Subgenital plates (Fig. 3) scabbard-shaped. Aedeagus (Figs 4 and 5) with pair of inner sclerotized processes apically, and with developed basal process extending anterior-dorsally. Paraphysis (Figs 4 and 5), in ventral view, gradually widen posteriorly, with apical margin concave medially, apical lateral projections short. Connective (Fig. 6) broadly Y-shaped with lateral margins slightly concave. Style (Fig.7) extending posteriorly as far as apex of connective.

Female genitalia. Abdominal sternite VII (Fig. 8), in ventral view, posterior margin approximately transverse, slight convex medially; surface with relatively concentrated setae distributed on bilateral portion of anterior half. Valvifers I, in lateral view, with posterodorsal margin nearly angulate and posteroventral margin rounded. Valvifers II with small group of clustered setae near articulation point. Other features as in generic diagnosis.

Material examined. 1 male (Holotype) and 1 female (Paratype), China, Guizhou Province, Daozhen County, Dashahe, 22 to 26 May 2004, coll. Song Qiong-zhang, Zhang Bin and Xu Fang-ling; 1 female, China, Guizhou Province, Maolan, 23 May 1998, coll. Li Zi-zhong; 1 female, China, Guizhou Province, Shibing County, Yuntaishan, 20 May 2009, coll. Yang Zai-hua; 2 males, China, Guizhou Province, Suiyang County, Kuankuoshui, 2 to 5 June 2010, coll. Song Qiong-zhang.

Notes

Published as part of Meng, Ze-Hong & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2015, A new genus and species of Cicadellini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China, pp. 489-494 in Zootaxa 4039 (3) on page 492, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.3.10, http://zenodo.org/record/243701

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Biprocessa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Yang & Li
Species
jiaoi
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Biprocessa jiaoi (Yang, 2005) sec. Meng & Yang, 2015

References

  • Yang, M. F., Song, D. M. & Li, Z. Z. (2005) Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae. In: Yang, M. F. & Jin, D. C. (Eds.), Insects from Dashahe Nature Reserve of Guizhou. Guizhou Peoples Publishing House, Guiyang, pp. 133 - 142.