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Nephotettix malayanus Ishihara & Kawase

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Nephotettix malayanus Ishihara & Kawase

(Plate II; Plate VI: E–H; Figures 6–13; Figure 5 C)

Nephotettix malayanus Ishihara & Kawase, 1968: 119.

Length. Male: 3.75 mm; female: 3.99 mm.

Material examined. China: Jilin Prov.: 2 males, Jinghong Town, 30.VII.1983; Zhejiang Prov.: 8 males, 9 females, Qingliangfeng, 6.VIII.2008, coll. Xiao Bin; Fujian Prov.: 32 males, 42 females, Gutian Mountain, 28.VIII.2008; Hainan Prov.: 14 males, 24 females, Wuzhi Mountain, V.2011, coll. Duan Yani; Guangxi Prov.: 8 males, 9 females, Fangcheng, 3.XII.2011, coll. He Zhiqiang; Yunnan Prov.: 1 male, Yexianggu, 822m, 17.V.2011, coll. Lu Lin, at light; 1 male, Mengla County, Mohan, 852m, 18.V.2011, coll. Lu Lin, at light; 2 males, Mengla County, Yiwu Town, 1307m, 21.V.2011, coll. Lu Lin; 1 male, Yingjiang County, Zhanxi Town, 1009m, 02.VI.2011, coll. Lu Lin, at light.

Remarks. An adequate description of this species was given by Ghauri (1971). But some variation occurs as follows. Crown and forewing with or without black markings (Plate II: A–F). Pygofer side usually distodorsal corner round, distoventral corner pointed, spine 1 long, spine 2 and others absent (Fig. 8 B), but much variation is found (Figs. 6–9); style usually as in Fig. 10 C, apophysis of style is always shorter, but its shape varies (Figs. 10– 11); aedeagal shaft usually as in Figs. 12 B, 13B, but much variation is found (Figs. 12 A–F, 13A–I), the paired median lateral processes of aedeagal shaft short (Figs. 12 A–F, 13A–I), but the relative length of the shaft and the shape of median lateral process varies, and the number of aedeagal spines also varies usually from 3–5 (Figs. 12 A– F, 13A–I). The nearly round crown of both males and females make this species very distinct (Plate II: A–F).

PLATE II. Nephotettix malayanus Ishihara & Kawase. A –F: habitus, dorsal view (A–E: male, F: female); G: face.

Notes

Published as part of Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, Review of the grassland leafhopper genus Nephotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from the Chinese mainland, pp. 201-229 in Zootaxa 3755 (3) on pages 209-210, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/226685

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Ishihara & Kawase
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Nephotettix
Species
malayanus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Ishihara, T. & Kawase, E. (1968) Two new Malayan species of the genus Nephotettix (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology, 3 (3), 119 - 123.
  • Ghauri, M. S. K. (1971) Revision of the genus Nephotettix Matsumura (Homoptera, Cicadelloidea, Euscelidae) based on the type material. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 60 (3), 481 - 512. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1017 / s 0007485300040438