Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Author
Duan, Yani
text
Zootaxa
2011
2870
1
47
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.206115
e97f75f7-a045-4e42-99f4-a44cccbb989d
1175-5326
206115
Maiestas cultella
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 20
; Plate III: A & B; Plate V: N; Plate VI: M)
Length.
3.1–3.7mm
.
Light brown. Vertex light yellow with six small, dark brown marks on anterior margin, brown longitudinal band midway between eye and midline, eye from brown to dark (Plate III: A & B); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum light yellow with six brown longitudinal stripes (Plate III: A & B). Leg marked with dark brown. Forewing sordid, cells bordered fuscous, brown patch on central anteapical cell (Plate III: A & B).
FIGURE 18.
M. tareni
(Dash & Viraktamath)
. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: style, dorsal view; D & E: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.
Forewing macropterous or submacropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.
Male genitalia.
Subgenital plate subtriangular, apex acute (
Fig. 20
B); style preapical lobe obtusely triangular shaped, apophysis slim, tapered to acute apex, slightly laterally curved (
Fig. 20
C); connective longer than aedeagus, aedeagal shaft very short and robust with some small inconspicuous spines basally, gonopore large (
Figs 20
D, 20E).
Female genitalia.
Hind
margin of seventh sternum as in Plate V: N and Plate VI: M.
Material examined.
Holotype
: ɗ,
China
, Hainan Prov., Bawangling,
25 May 1983
, coll. Zhang Yalin, at light.
Paratypes
:
China
, Hainan Prov.:
4ΨΨ, Xinglong, 25,
26 April 1983
, at light; 7ɗɗ, 13ΨΨ, Liangyuan,
31 May
, 1, 2,
15 June 1983
, coll. Zhang Yalin (1ɗ, 1Ψ,
BMNH
); 1Ψ, Qiongzhong,
4 June 1983
; 1ɗ, Mt. Jianfengling,
25 August 2002
, coll. Wang Zongqing, Che Yanli & Wang Peiming; 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Mt. Jianfengling,
940m
,
7 June 2003
, coll. Duan Yani, at light; 1ɗ, Mt. Diaolue,
2 June 2003
, coll. Duan Yani. All
NWAFU
, except where indicated.
Remarks.
This species can be distinguished by the obtusely triangular shaped style preapical lobe (
Fig. 20
C) and very short and robust aedeagal shaft (
Figs 20
D, 20E).
Etymology.
This name is based on the knife-like shape of the aedeagus in lateral view.