Revision of the leafhopper genus Smyga (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae)
Author
Webb, Michael D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1312-6142
Department of Life Sciences (Insects), The Natural History Museum, London, SW 7 5 BD, UK
m.webb@nhm.ac.uk
Author
Xu, Ye
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3230-7923
School of Agricultural Science, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang 330045, China
yexu@jxau.edu.cn
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Smyga Dworakowska, 1995
Smyga
Dworakowska, 1995: 151.
Type species.
Smyga distincta
Dworakowska, 1995 by original designation.
Description.
Body relatively robust. Pale yellow; head with a brown patch anteriorly (Figs
1
,
9
); face with anteclypeus brown distally (Fig.
2
), sometimes with more extensive brown marking (
S. divergens
); pronotum with a brown transverse narrow band at midlength, pale yellow anterior to band and silvery posterior to band (Figs
1
,
9
); mesonotum with yellow to brown basal triangles (Figs
1
,
9
).
Head including eyes broader than pronotum in dorsal view, crown short and broad, round anteriorly, length along midline shorter than one-half width between eyes; coronal suture well developed, extended onto face, and terminating at level of antennal bases (Fig.
2
). Ocelli distinct, well separated from eyes (Fig.
2
). Face moderately broad; lateral frontal suture well developed, curved mesad above antennal pit and meeting coronal suture at midline ventromesad of ocelli; anteclypeus slightly convex, not expanded (Fig.
2
). Pronotum large with sinuate transverse depression (Figs
1
,
9
). Forewing narrow, rounded apically; apical cells occupying almost one-third of total length; vein R2 and RM dissociated at bases, joined by cross-vein, both arising from r cell; vein ScP+RA is not detectable; vein MCu almost parallel with vein RM apically. Hindwing with MP+CuA confluent. Front femur seta AM1 stout, situated near ventral margin; intercalary row with one large basal seta and eight or nine smaller setae near tip of femur. Hind femur with macrosetal formula 2 + 1 + 1; tibia row AV with six or seven preapical macrosetae.
Male basal abdominal sternal apodemes (2S apodemes) well developed (Fig.
3
). Male pygofer elongated, strongly narrowing caudad, posterior margin acute with few rigid microsetae distally, dorsal margin with macrosetae, long fine ventrolateral setae present, ventral appendage absent (Figs
4
,
10
). Anal tube process elongate, extended to ventral margin of genital capsule (Figs
4
,
10
). Subgenital plate broadest near base (Fig.
10
) or subapically (Fig.
4
), all categories of setae well differentiated; basal setae encompassing mid-length of plate; marginal setae well defined; macrosetae uniserate; feeble microsetae arranged in 2-4 irregular rows apically (Fig.
4
). Connective with media sclerotization, anterior margin and posterior margin deeply emarginated (Fig.
7
). Style short, sinuate, with tiny teeth and microsetae preapically (Fig.
11
). Aedeagus shaft short, tubular, with basal apodeme long (Figs
5
,
13
) or laterally compressed with basal apodeme short (Figs
6
,
12
); gonopore apical on ventral surface (Fig.
12
).
Notes.
Smyga
superficially resembles
Dapitana
Mahmood, 1967 in the features of the head and wings (coronal suture extended onto face and terminating at level of antennal bases (Fig.
2
), forewing with vein R2 and RM dissociated at bases, joined by cross-vein, both arising from r cell and vein ScP+RA is not detectable). It differs from
Dapitana
in color pattern (see generic description) and in having the male pygofer with one or two dorsal macrosetae and long fine ventrolateral setae (Figs
4
,
10
) (pygofer without macrosetae and long fine setae in
Dapitana
). Both genera occur on both sides of
Wallace's
Line, separating the Oriental from Australian regions.
Smyga
includes five previously known species, all from Borneo, described by
Dworakowska (1995)
. In her treatment of the type species,
S. distincta
, Dworakowska also described and illustrated some "aberrant specimens" that she excluded from the type series because she considered the small, ventrally positioned aedeagal shaft to be "not functional." Here we recognize these specimens as a valid species:
S. brevipenis
sp. nov., as similar specimens of two new species have been seen in
Xu's
(2019)
PhD thesis.
As most
Smyga
species are from similar localities in Borneo (see Checklist) and as males are needed for identification, the female paratypes of two species (
S. distincta
and
S. zonata
) must be regarded as of uncertain identity (see also comments under
S. distincta
and
S. zonata
). It is also of some interest that, compared to males, the number of known females is very low.
Distribution.
Oriental Region (Brunei, Malaysia).
Checklist to species of
Smyga
S. brevipenis
Webb & Xu, sp. nov. (Brunei, Ulu Temburong; Sarawak, Gunong Mulu National Park)
S. distincta
Dworakowska, 1995: 153-155, figs 168-177 (Brunei, Ulu Temburong)
S. exhibita
Dworakowska, 1995: 155, figs 198-205 (Brunei, Ulu Temburong)
S. niema
Dworakowska, 1995: 155-156, figs 206-212 (Sabah)
S. ziewa
Dworakowska, 1995: 155, figs 188-192 (Brunei, Bukit Sulang)
S. zonata
Dworakowska, 1995: 155, figs 193-197 (Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park)