Review of the leafhopper genus Thaia Ghauri and related genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
Author
Cao, Yanghui
0000-0002-0515-0767
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China & Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & caoyh @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0515 - 0767
caoyh@illinois.edu
Author
Dmitriev, Dmitry A.
0000-0002-3293-4794
Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & arboridia @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3293 - 4794
arboridia@gmail.com
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
0000-0003-4005-4305
Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA & chdietri @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4005 - 4305
chdietri@illinois.edu
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, P. R. China
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-10-28
4868
3
331
367
journal article
8891
10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.2
03a9be04-f633-4adc-8397-058c282f216b
1175-5326
4417761
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9.
Etmaria magna
Cao & Dietrich
sp. nov.
Figs 8
,
19
e–h
Description.
Ground color dark (specimen preserved in ethanol before examined), vertex and face lighter, midline of frontoclypeal area infuscated, eyes dark grey. Crown fore margin parallel to hind margin, coronal suture indistinct; anteclypeus relatively narrow.
Anal tube appendage very slim, located near middle of anal tube.
Boundary between basal and distal pygofer lobes rounded; ventral appendage tubular with furrows, sinuated, only expanded at very base, with rigid setae at base, apex surpassing hind margin of lobe. Subgenital plate with about 4 macrosetae. Style with apical part slim and short, apex slightly curved inwards in dorsal view, pointed and curved in lateral view. Connective with manubrium long and relatively narrow, central lobe with fore margin slightly concave, extended to tip of lateral arms. Aedeagal shaft relatively short, directed dorsad, atrium wide and very long in lateral view, expanded medially in caudal view, mushroom-shaped; dorsal apodeme well developed, lamellate; preatrium elongated, without processes.
Measurement.
Male length 5.05 mm.
Material examined.
Holotype
:
♂
,
CHINA
,
Taiwan
,
Taichung
,
Dashuishan Forest Rd.
km
20, 1250m
,
24°15'6"N
,
120°54'58"E
,
18 vi 2004
, sweeping, coll.
C.H. Dietrich.
[
TNMNS
].
Etymology.
The new specific epithet is derived from Latin adjective “
magnus
” which means large, big, referring to that the large body size of this species.
Diagnosis.
The new species is similar to
E. dentata
sp. nov.
, but the anal tube appendage is much slimmer, the pygofer ventral appendage is only expanded at the very base, the central lobe of the connective is extended to the tip of the lateral arms, and the aedeagal atrium is mushroom-shaped.