The Chinese Hecalina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Hecalini) with descriptions of a new genus and seven new species
Author
He, Zhiqiang
College of Plant Science, Tarim University, Alar, Xinjiang 843300, CHINA E-mail: hzqzky @ 163. com
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, CHINA. E-mail: yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn.
yalinzh@nwsuaf.edu.cn
Author
Mckamey, Stuart H.
USDA / ARS Systematic Entomology Laboratory, c / o National Museum of Natural History, MRC- 168, Smithsonian Institution, 10 St. & Constitution Ave., PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012. E-mail: stuart. mckamey @ usda. gov.
Author
Zahniser, James N.
USDA-APHIS-PPQ, National Museum of Natural History, MRC- 160, Smithsonian Institution, 10 St. & Constitution Ave., PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012. E-mail: james. n. zahniser @ usda. gov
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-10-02
4679
2
257
285
journal article
22531
10.11646/zootaxa.4679.2.3
6bca4eb8-bfdd-496c-9916-dc998447a172
1175-5326
3772508
CAFEA77F-1A4B-49D0-91DB-E55BE443B28C
Thomsonia breviaea
,
sp. n.
(
Figs 106–115
)
Type material.
Holotype
:
♂
,
CHINA
:
Shandong Province
:
Yantai
,
Kunlun Mountain
,
12. xii. 2001
, coll.
Daozheng Qin
and & Zhenjiang Liu.
Paratypes
:
1♀
, same data as holotype
;
1♂
,
Laiyang
,
14. xii. 2001
, coll.
Daozheng Qin
and
Zhenjiang Liu
;
1♂
,
Qixia
,
Shibapan
,
16. xii. 2001
, coll.
Daozheng Qin
and
Zhenjiang Liu.
Description. Colour.
Yellow green. Frontoclypeus yellowish. Ocelli pale yellow. Eyes brown, sometime with a white line medially. Forewings hyaline and veins slightly greenish.
Body length, male
7.1 mm
to the tip of forewing, female 7.0–
7.6 mm
to the tip of forewing, 7.5–8.0 mm to the end of ovipositor. Vertex wide triangular, apically subangular in male and broadly rounded in female, slightly upturned anteriorly. Ocellus close to corresponding eye. Measurements of vertex length: interocular width: pronotal length (mm): male 0.67: 1.1: 0.78, female 0.84: 1.4: 0.84. Pronotum as wide as head.
Male genitalia:
Subgenital plate with 4 setae laterally. Pygofer side slightly rounded apically. Aedeagus with pair of branched terminal processes, outer pair curving dorsally, about 1/4 as long as shaft, inner pair projecting dorsally, short, less than 1/3 as long as outer pair, tapering apically; gonopore subapical; apodeme developed
Female genitalia:
Ovipositor extending beyond pygofer approximately 2 times its apical width. Seventh sternum with U-shaped excavation medially.
Distribution.
China
(
Shandong
).
Etymology.
The species name, an adjective, is derived from the Latin word “breviae” referring to the shorter terminal processes.
Remarks.
This species resembles
T. lineatus
, but the latter has subequal slender aedeagal processes.