A taxonomic study of the genus Paralaevicephalus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of four new species from China
Author
Xing, Jichun
Author
Dai, Renhuai
Author
Li, Zizhong
text
Zootaxa
2009
1979
53
61
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185247
b690ca3e-0164-451f-9543-d5dc4b1d606d
1175-5326
185247
Paralaevicephalus lamellatus
sp. nov.
Figs. 36–41
Description.
General appearance as in
Paralaevicephalus grossus
sp. nov.
.
Male genitalia: Subgenital plate short, outer and apical margins rounded, macrosetae irregularly arranged towards apex; elongate stout process arising basally from inner margin, strongly curved dorsad at apex (
Fig.
38). Style short, apical process narrow, rounded, not exceeding apical margin of subgenital plate, base narrow (
Fig. 38
). Connective with arms forked, without stem (
Fig. 41
). Aedeagus with shaft short, curved dorsad, apex lamellar. (
Figs. 39, 40
).
Measurement.
Length (including tegmen): 3, 2.7–2.9 mm; Ƥ, 2.9–3.1 mm.
Host.
Weeds.
Type
Material.
Holotype
3,
China
: Henan Prov., Jiyuan City, Wangwushan,
21 August 2008
, coll. Jichun Xing (
IEGU
).
Paratypes
: 23,4Ƥ, same data as
holotype
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
Paralaevicephalus prima
(Rao)
, but the connective is Y-shaped and the apex of the aedeagus is lamellar. It also differs from
Paralaevicephalus grossus
sp. nov.
in lacking the stem of the connective and in is the apically lamellar aedeagus.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the Latin words
lamellatus
, indicating the end of aedeagus is lamellar.