Philippogalla, a new genus for Philipposcopus modestus (Baker) from the Philippines, and a new species of Philipposcopus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae) from China
Author
Xue, Qingquan
Author
Mckamey, Stuart H.
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2017
4291
1
journal volume
32695
10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.2
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1175-5326
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Philipposcopus processus
Xue & Zhang
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 2
,
4
)
Description
. Length (including wings): male
5.7 mm
.
Body brownish. Ocelli transparent, surrounded by black; face basally brownish, medially yellowish; frontoclypeus and anteclypeus mainly yellowish, apex of anteclypeus brownish; lora and gena dark brown (
Fig. 2
D). Pronotum brown, with yellowish brown stripes, posterior margin black. Mesoscutum basal triangles brown, with small inner triangles, black; disc dark brown (
Fig. 2
C). Forewing brownish hyaline, veins dark brown.
Pygofer posterodorsal angle triangular, incurved, hook-like, with several small and stout setae (
Figs. 4
A–B). Subgenital plate slender, with several hairlike setae on dorsal margin. Style with middle part with several setae laterally. Aedeagus curved, with pair of long, thin, curved apical processes; shaft cylindrical, straight; gonopore apical on ventral surface; dorsal apodeme wide and short in lateral view; preatrium long (
Figs. 4
D–E).
Etymology
. The specific name refers to the aedeagal shaft with a pair of processes.
Specimen
examined
.
Holotype
:
♂
,
CHINA
,
Yunnan
Prov.,
Menglun
,
19. v. 1991
, coll.
Wang Yinglun
&
Tian Rungang
(
NWAFU
).
Remarks
. This new species is very similar to the
type
species in the color of the head and pronotum, and the shape of style. However, it can be distinguished from the
type
species by the aedeagal shaft processes.