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 condupulicata
sp. n.
(
Fig. 8
)
Description.
Body length: ɗ
6.4mm
. Body colour generally brown; vertex with black apically and over medial line, a pair of blackish brown elongate spots situated subbasally (
Fig. 8
B); frontoclypeus and lora darker; anteclypeus with pair of stout setae apically (
Fig. 8
E). Pronotum darker on disc; thorax with somewhat dense short white setae; tufts of hairlike setae on scutellum very long, brown to black (
Fig. 8
B).
Male genital capsule with short to long macrosetae and very short setae; subgenital plate extending nearly to apex of pygofer side (
Fig. 8
G). Aedeagal shaft with lateral margin serrate, double layered medially, apex distinctively incised medially in ventral view (
Figs 8
C, D).
Type
material.
Holotype
:
ɗ (
NWAFU
), E.
MALAYSIA
,
SABAH
: Tinanamantawaram (Ca
1000m
), nr. Poling,
18-VI-1983
, S. Nagai leg, Coll. M. Hayashi.
Etymology.
The specific name is derived from the conduplicate aedeagal shaft.
Remarks.
This species can be distinguished from other species of this genus by its unique aedeagal shaft which is double layered medially with its lateral margin serrate and its apex distinctively incised medially in ventral view (
Figs 8
C, D).