A taxonomic study of Chinese Empoascini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) (II)
Author
Qin, Dao-Zheng
Author
Liu, Yang
Author
Zhang, Ya-Lin
text
Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
46617
10.5281/zenodo.277935
4eb609fe-ac18-485b-9a6f-1030a69a1f5d
1175-5326
277935
Membranacea unijugata
Qin & Zhang
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 16–31
)
Type
materials.
Holotype
, male (
NWAFU
), Mt. Emei, Sichuan Province,
15 Aug. 2001
, coll. Cong Wei, Suqin Shang & Zhaofu Yang, by light trap.
Paratypes
.
1 male
, same data as
holotype
;
1 male
, Mt. Taibai, Shaanxi Province,
1500 m
, coll. Jingruo Zhou & Lan Liu (
NWAFU
).
Description.
Length, male 4.1–4.3 mm.
General color brown to reddish brown. Vertex with a blackish patch centrally on each side of coronal suture, median black apical spot circled by creamy patch, the creamy patch extends basad of vertex, centrally joining the coronal suture (
Figs 16, 17
). Eyes dark. Face yellow to yellowish brown, postclypeus centrally infuscated with a longitudinal stripe in apical half. Pronotum reddish brown centrally and posteriorly, at anterior margin with an orange patch medially (
Fig. 16
). Centre of scutellum with a quadrate patch anteriorly which is furnished with a narrow brownish stripe medially, caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus with a large and irregular patch, scutoscutellar sulcus black (
Fig. 16
). Forewing semi-transparent, hindwing hyaline, veins beige to brown. Abdomen black brown. Legs slightly orange except the hind tibiae tan medially.
Basal sternal abdominal apodemes exceeding half of segment V (
Fig. 31
). Male pygofer with ca. 9 rigid setae at caudo-dorsal angle of lobe (
Figs 21, 23
), dorsal bridge less than third of the total length of pygofer (
Fig. 22
), Subgenital plate expanded dorso-laterad in middle and bearing 4 fairly long and broad setae forming the basal group, 14 lateral macrosetae, 21–25 marginal microsetae and several feeble microsetae in 3 irregular rows (
Figs 21, 29
). Paramere with 10 prominent teeth in dentifer, a few sensory pits and ca. 10 long setae in line more cephald (
Fig. 30
). Aedeagal shaft with pair of flanges latero-ventrally at apical 2/5, margins smooth or dentate basally, subapex of shaft smooth at ventral side, or slightly produced ventro-medially in a narrow process which is dendate at ventral margin in lateral view, shaft sharply narrowing in terminal part, apex acuminate, preatrium nearly half length of shaft, gonopore ventral near apex (
Figs 21, 26–28
).
Remarks.
Membranacea unijugata
Qin & Zhang
,
sp. n.
differs from other species of this genus by the aedeagal shaft having only one pair of flanges in dorsal aspect.
Etymology.
The species name is formed from “
unijugatus
” (Latin; adjective), with the feminine termination – a, referring to the single pair of flanges of the aedeagus.