Multiformis, a new genus of Evacanthini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae), with the descriptions of two new species from China
Author
Li, Yu-Jian
Author
Li, Zi-Zhong
text
Zootaxa
2012
3185
53
58
journal article
45491
10.5281/zenodo.210536
51458191-066e-469a-9bdd-582db7f1586b
1175-5326
210536
Multiformis nigrifacialis
sp. nov.
Figs 3–4
,
11–15
Description.
Crown (
Fig. 3
) light yellow. Pronotum and scutellum (
Fig. 3
) black, lateral part of pronotum becoming yellow. Eyes (
Fig. 3
) dark with some yellow, ocelli nearly translucent. Face (
Fig. 4
) black, base of anteclypeus black, apex of anteclypeus yellowish gray. Forewings (
Figs 3, 4
) gray yellow and translucent, area near the apex of forewing gray, veins gray black.
Hind
wings (
Figs 3, 4
) gray.
Male pygofer (
Fig. 11
) appreciably longer than high, conically produced caudally. Subgenital (
Figs 11, 15
) with twelve fine setae on inside submargin and several long setae near apex. Aedeagus (
Figs 12–13
) swollen at base; dorsal apodeme with ventral margin somewhat flexed; processes on side of aedeagal shaft with three small spicules lamellate on ventral submargin, spacing of two contiguous spicules even; apex of aedeagal ventral processes bifurcate. Other male genitalia characteristics as in
Figs 11–15
.
Measurement.
Length (including tegmen): 3, 6.3–6.5 mm.
Type
material.
Holotype
3,
CHINA
: Yunnan, Longling,
25 July 2002
, coll. Li Zizhong.
Paratypes
: 33, same data as
holotype
.
Host plant.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the Latin words
nigri-
(black) and
facialis
(face), indicating the color of its face.
Remarks.
This species resembles
Multiformis longlingensis
sp. nov.
, but it can be distinguished by its entirely black face (
Fig. 4
) and by the bifurcate apices of the aedeagal ventral processes (
Figs 12–13
).