The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus
Author
Wei, Cong
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2008
1793
1
27
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182576
438540c0-da6e-42c6-9c0d-acd4d7ccd907
1175-5326
182576
Cyrta coalita
sp. n.
(
Fig. 9
)
Description.
Body length: ɗ 8.0mm. Body colour generally brown to dark brown; anteclypeus and lora dark with pair of stout setae apically on anteclypeus (
Fig. 9
B). Scutellum with very short tufts of black hairlike setae on lateral margin (
Fig. 9
A).
Male pygofer with short to long macrosetae and very dense short setae; with a long dorsally curved inner process and process with two denticles on dorsal margin at about one third part (
Fig. 9
G). Subgenital plate not extending beyond to apex of pygofer side; fused with valve basally (
Fig. 9
F). Aedeagal shaft broad basally and tapered to apex in both lateral and ventral view, apex acute in lateral view and narrowly rounded in ventral view (
Figs 9
C, E).
Type
material.
Holotype
:
ɗ (
ZSU
),
CHINA
: Yunnan Prov., Western Hills, near Kunming,
6-VII-
(19)40, J. L. Gressit.
Etymology.
The specific name is derived from its subgenital plates fused to valve basally.
Remarks.
This species is similar to
C. striolata
,
C. flosifronta
,
C. incurvata
and
C. fujianensis
in having an inner pygofer process. It can be distinguished from these by: 1) subgenital plate acute apically and fused to valve basally; 2) inner process of pygofer with two denticles on dorsal margin at about one third part; 3) aedeagal shaft broad basally and tapered to apex in both lateral and ventral view, apex acute in lateral view and narrowly rounded in ventral view.