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Shortcrowna leishanensis Li & Li, 2014, sp. nov.

Description

Shortcrowna leishanensis sp. nov.

Figs 26 36

Description. General coloration. Head, pronotum and scutellum black, caudal area of pronotum brown (Fig. 7). Eyes dark; ocelli translucent (Fig. 7). Face light yellow; apex of anteclypeus black; lora light yellow (Fig. 8). Forewings brown with black translucent longitudinal stripes on clavus and corium (Fig. 8). Hindwings dark gray. Head and thorax. Head apex arcuately produced, median longitudinal carina lamellate (Fig. 7); submarginal carina concentrated on head, and submarginal carina furcated in front of ocelli (Fig. 7); area between median carina and submarginal carina distinctly concave (Fig. 7). Vertex shorter than pronotum and scutellum (Fig. 7). Ocelli small, about in the middle of eye and vertex (Fig. 7). Pronotum broad, wider than head (Fig. 7). Scutellum triangular, shorter than pronotum, with transverse depression distinct (Fig. 7). Face including eyes, longer than wide (Figs. 8). Frontoclypeus broad and swollen at base, with median longitudinal carina more strongly elevated, laterally obliquely striate; lora nearly reaching apex of clypellus (Fig. 8). Forewing veins slightly prominent, with R1a; four apical cells; appendix very narrow (Fig. 7).

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate with single longitudinal row of macrosetae. Aedeagal shaft tubular, nearly straight in lateral view; lateral membranous lobes extended beyond the end of shaft (Figs 26 28). Style apex strongly recurved medioventrally, with few small setae on preapical lobe (Figs 26 28). Connective with large median anterior lobe between relatively short arms (Figs 26 28). Other genitalia characteristics as shown in Figs 26 30.

Female genitalia. Female seventh sternite (Fig. 31) longer than sixth and posterior margin produced; first valvulae (Figs 32 33) slender, dorsal sculpturing concatenate; apex of second valvulae (Figs 34 35) with dorsal teeth more numerous, prominent and closely spaced. Other genitalia characteristics as shown in Figs 31 36.

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): , 7.4~7.6 mm; ♀, 8.5~8.7 mm.

Type material. Holotype , CHINA: Guizhou, Leishan, Fangxiang, 4 June 2005, coll. Li Zizhong & Zhang Bin. Paratypes: 2 ♂2♀, same data as holotype.

Host plant. Unknown.

Etymology. The species name is derived from the place name where the specimen was collected.

Notes

Published as part of Li, Yu-Jian & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2014, Shortcrowna, a new genus of Evacanthinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from China, pp. 467-474 in Zootaxa 3764 (4) on pages 472-473, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/230473

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Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Shortcrowna
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Species
leishanensis
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Shortcrowna leishanensis Li & Li, 2014