Revision of the New World leafhopper genus Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
Author
Dietrich, C. H.
Author
Dmitriev, D. A.
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-05-17
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Neozygina chiapensis
n. sp.
(
Figs. 1J
,
3D–F
)
Diagnosis.
Length of male
3.1 mm
. Ground color stramineous, heavily mottled with brown; anteclypeus, mesonotal triangles, scutellum apex, mesosternum, and abdominal terga dark brown; pronotum with extensive symmetrical brown markings anteriorly; forewing without distinct markings. Male pygofer (fig. 3D) with dor- sal appendage arising near midlength, short, tapered, curved mesad; ventral appendage long, slender, extended dorsomesad and crossing midline; lobe between appendages broadly rounded, weakly sclerotized near margin. Aedeagus (
Figs. 3E, F
) with preatrium nearly as long as shaft; shaft broad basally, slender and curved dorsad distally, with pair of slender posterolaterally directed spines arising adjacent to dorsal apodeme, apex with pair of short laterally directed processes; gonopore apical.
Material examined.
Holotype
male,
MEXICO
:
Chiapas
, rt.
195 km
#31, 10 km
NE
Chiapa de Corzo
,
1000m
,
16°49’W
,
92°58’W
,
4 November 2001
(
C.H. Dietrich
, vacuum, 01-051-03) [
INHS
].
Note.
This species is somewhat similar to
N. quadricornis
in coloration, but is readily distinguished by the distinctive aedeagus. The specific name refers to the Mexican state where the
type
specimen was collected.