Description of two new species and a new combination for the leafhopper genus Reticuluma (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Penthimiini) from China
Author
Fu, Xiao
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2015
3931
2
253
260
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3931.2.4
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1175-5326
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2A7205B0-E09C-42C1-A64A-87487FD2744A
Reticuluma dactyla
Fu & Zhang
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 1A–D
,
3A–H
)
Description.
Length (including wings): male
3.4–3.9mm
; female
4.2–4.4mm
.
Body covered with black reticulations. Numerous transverse striations on anterior margin of vertex; eyes black with inner edge reddish brown. Face black. Pronotum marked with white and black reticulations. Scutellum with brown and black reticulations with the end of the transverse line milky (
Figs. 1A–D
). Reticulations on forewing dense and dark (
Fig. 5A
)
External characters as in generic description.
Male genitalia. Pygofer side longer than broad, with short and long macrosetae near posterior margin (
Fig. 3A
). Subgenital plate extending beyond apex of pygofer, triangular; lateral margin slightly concave; on ventral side with a row of moderately long macrosetae and several short setae near the lateral margin and apex (
Fig. 3B
). Connective ‘Y’ shaped, similar in length to style (
Figs. 3D–F
). Aedeagus finger-like with gonopore on posterior side (
Figs. 3G–H
).
Female 7th sternum shorter than wide, rectangular, apical margin slightly convex, with a median shallow concavity in the middle. Second pair of valvulae with end truncated, with dorsal teeth (
Fig. 3C
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet refers to the fingerlike aedeagus.
Material examined.
Holotype
: ♂,
CHINA
, Shaanxi Prov., Yangling,
30-V-2013
, Zhong Haiying.
Paratypes
:
5♂
, 8♀, same data as the
holotype
.
Remarks.
This species can be distinguished from other species of this genus by the fingerlike aedeagus.