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 huaxiensis
sp. nov.
Figs. 17–23
Description.
Color and external features as in generic description, vertex with four black maculae (
Fig.17
).
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. 20
). Style short, apex slender, rounded, exceeding apical margin of subgenital plate, base broad (
Fig. 20
). Connective with arms forked, Y-shaped and stem short, its stem nearly 1/5 of arms (
Fig. 23
). Aedeagus with shaft elongate and slender, curved dorsad, with dorsal apodeme, gonopore apical on ventral surface (
Figs. 21, 22
).
Measurement.
Length (including tegmen): 3, 2.9– 3.0 mm; Ƥ, 3.0–3.1 mm.
Host.
Weeds.
Type
Material.
Holotype
3,
China
: Guizhou Prov., Guiyang City, Huaxi,
3 June 2008
, coll. Jichun Xing (
IEGU
).
Paratypes
: 13,2Ƥ, same data as
holotype
.
Diagnosis.
This species is similar to
Paralaevicephalus gracilipenis
Dai, Zhang
et
Hu
in having the subgenital plate process curved at the apex and the aedeagal shaft long and slender, but differs from this and other species in having the connective with arms forked, Y-shaped, with the stem short.
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the
type
locality Huaxi.