Taxonomic study of the genus Kapsa Dworakowska with a new subgenus, and new combinations and records for Tautoneura Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
Author
Yang, Meixia
Author
Cao, Yanghui
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2013
3630
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117
142
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.4
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1175-5326
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1.
Tautoneura albida
(Dworakowska, 1970)
(
Fig. 14
)
Erythroneura
(
Balila
)
albida
Dworakowska, 1970: 353
, Figs 51, 52, 65–70
Tautoneura albida
Dworakowska, 1977: 290
, Figs 66–68
T. albida
Song, Li & Xiong, 2011: 65
Kapsa yanheensis
Song & Li, 2012: 30, Figs 25–33
syn. nov.
Material examined.
33,
China
: Yunnan Prov., Lancang,
1700m
, 0
1 xii 1999
, coll. I. Dworakowska; 13,
China
: Sichuan Prov., Mt. Emei,
550m
,
26 vi 2010
, coll. Cao Yanghui; 83,
China
: Sichuan Prov., Yaan, Zhangjiashan Park,
11 vii 2010
, coll. Cao Yanghui
Distribution:
India
;
China
(Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan).
Remarks.
This species is extremely similar to
T. ahmedi
Dworakowska
and
T. alba
(Ahmed)
in view of their distinctive subgenital plate and paramere. The subgenital plate of this group has the basal part (region below the lateral projection) extremely long, with enlarged marginal microsetae subapically and reduced, relatively small marginal microsetae in the basal group. The paramere has the apical part and basal part long, the central part relatively short, and the apical part slender and twisted. The three species can be distinguished mainly by the length of the aedeagal processes and the distance between the process and the shaft.
T. albida
has the aedeagal processes (
Fig. 14
j) close to the shaft in ventral view and sinuate, with the apex directed outwards and surpassing the midlength of the shaft;
T. ahmedi
has the aedeagal processes (
Fig.
15
g) far form the shaft in ventral view, slightly curved mesad, and extended approximately to the midlength of the shaft;
T. alba
has the processes shorter than the midlength of the shaft; the distance between process and shaft is unknown according to the original description and illustrations.
The description and illustrations of
Kapsa yanheensis
Song & Li indicat that it is a synonym of
T. albida
(Dworakowska)
, despite apparent differences in the drawing of the pygofer dorsal appendage.