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
Deltocephalus uncinatus
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 4
; Plate I: E; Plate V: C; Plate VI: C)
Length. Male:
3.3–3.5mm
; female: 3.6–4.0mm.
Ochraceous. Vertex with sinuate dark brown band on antero-lateral margin and orange or brown longitudinal band each side of midline extending to scutellum (
Fig. 4
A; Plate I: E); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum stramineous with two orange or brown longitudinal bands on each side in addition to those continuing from vertex; scutellum stramineous (
Fig. 4
A; Plate I: E). Leg marked with brown. Forewing with cells embrowned, veins paler (Plate I: E).
Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally. Sternal apodemes at base of abdomen long with rounded apices (
Fig. 4D
).
FIGURE 4.
D. uncinatus
sp. nov.
A: head and thorax, dorsal view; B: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; C: subgenital plate, ventral view; D: sternal apodemes at base of abdomen; E: style, dorsal view; F: valve, ventral view; G & H: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.
Male genitalia.
Subgenital plate broadly triangular (
Fig. 4
C); style preapical lobe short, apophysis digitate, slightly laterally curved (
Fig. 4
E); aedeagal shaft short and robust, distinctly broad basally, strongly curved dorsally at apical 0.33, apex directed cephalad and strongly notched (
Figs 4
G, 4H).
Female genitalia.
Hind
margin of seventh sternum as in Plate V: C and Plate VI: C.
Material examined.
Holotype
: ɗ,
China
, Zhejiang Prov., Wuyanling,
680m
,
30 July 2005
, coll. Duan Yani.
Paratypes
:
China
, Zhejiang Prov.:
1ɗ, 1Ψ, Mt. Gutianshan, 17,
18 August 2003
, coll. Dai Wu; 3ΨΨ, Wuyanling,
400m
,
1 August 2005
, coll. Duan Yani, at light; 1Ψ, Wuyanling,
1000m
,
1 August 2005
, coll. Duan Yani;
Hunan Prov.:
1Ψ, Zhangjiajie,
25 July 2002
, coll. Sun Qinxia;
Guangxi Prov.:
1Ψ, Fangcheng, Naliang,
9 December 2001
, coll. He Zhiqiang;
Hainan Prov.:
1Ψ, Liangyuan,
30 May 1983
, coll. Zhang Yalin; 1Ψ, Mt. Diaoluoshan,
4 June 1983
, coll. Zhang Yalin, at light; 1Ψ, Country Baisha, Yinggeling,
23 May 2007
, coll. Duan Yani. All
NWAFU
.
Remarks.
This species is closely related to
vulgaris
, but differs in the broadly triangular subgenital plate (
Fig. 4
C) and in having the apex of the aedeagus directed cephalad (
Figs 4
G, 4H).
Etymology.
This name is based on the hooked apex of the aedeagus.