The second species of the leafhopper genus Watara Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Author
Yang, Meixia
text
Zootaxa
2011
2897
64
68
journal article
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10.5281/zenodo.202991
5755da9a-c573-4503-89f5-dce5827e4846
1175-5326
202991
Watara cordata
sp. nov.
Figs 9–18, 21–22, 24.
Body (
Fig. 21
) yellow. Vertex with brown patches at each side of coronal suture which merge to form heart-shaped median patch. Pronotum with two central brown patches at anterior margin; light brown medially; sordid whitish at posterior margin. Scutellum with dark brown basal triangles and rounded central brown patch below transverse depression. Face (
Fig. 22
) with gena whitish. Forewing (Fig. 9) brochosome field yellow, area basad with rounded dark brown patch; apical half of cua cell, four apical cells and clavus light brown.
Hind
wing (Fig. 10) av extended as continuation of A to CuP.
Male genitalia.
Pygofer dorsal appendage (Figs 11, 12) nearly parallel-sided; ventral appendage (Fig. 11) protruding beyond anterior margin of pygofer lobe. Subgenital plate (Fig. 14) bearing two rows of short stout setae along base of outer margin. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 17, 18) with subapical extension dorsad in lateral view and with pair of subapical processes.
Measurement.
Male 2.68mm, female 2.58mm.
Material examined.
Holotype
male,
China
: Yunnan Prov., Lancang Country, Munai,
1100m
,
2 xii 1999
;
Paratypes
: Yunnan Prov.: 43 18ƤƤ, same date as
holotype
; 23 6ƤƤ, Menglun,
600m
,
11 xii 1999
; 1Ƥ, Menglun, Cuipingfeng,
500m
,
4 xii 1999
; 8ƤƤ, Lancang Country,
1100m
,
2 xii 1999
, coll. Qin Daozheng; 131Ƥ, Mengla Country, Mt. Nangong,
1150m
,
12 xii 1999
; 133ƤƤ, Mengla Country, Mt. Nangong,
1150m
,
12 xii 1999
, coll. Qin Daozheng; 13, Jinghong City,
25 xii 1999
, coll. Qin Daozheng; 2ƤƤ, Menglong,
24 xii 1999
, coll. Qin Daozheng. All collected by I. Dworakowska except where indicated.
Remarks.
The new species is similar to
W. sudra
(Distant)
, but can be distinguished by the vertex (
Fig. 21
) with a heart-shaped patch, forewing with rounded brown patch at the base of the brochosome field, and the aedeagal shaft (Figs 17, 18) with subapical extension dorsad in lateral view and with a pair of subapical processes.
Etymology.
The specific name is derived from the Latin word “
cordatus
”, referring to the vertex with a heartshaped patch.