Review of the leafhopper genus Jilinga Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini), with description of two new species from China
Author
Xing, Ji-Chun
Author
Dai, Ren-Huai
Author
Li, Zi-Zhong
text
Zootaxa
2012
3164
49
56
journal article
45632
10.5281/zenodo.209532
f926a928-1569-4b84-b4e0-3bab784c346d
1175-5326
209532
Jilinga linzhiensis
sp. nov.
Figs 18–27
,
37–39
Description.
Body robust, color pattern of anterior dorsum and face as in
Figs. 37–39
. Vertex with pair of black stripes on anterior margin, median length shorter than width between eyes.
Hind
wings with three apical cells, macropterous, with two anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell closed basally. Legs dark brown. External features as in generic description.
Male genitalia.
Male pygofer side with long sharp spine on inner surface arising near posteroventral margin and directed apically and ventrally, with many macrosetae posteriorly (
Fig 18
). Anal tube produced anteroventrally into pair of long sharp spine-like processes (
Fig 19
). Aedeagus with short preatrium attached to dorsal connective with two pairs of sharp spines, aedeagal shaft with five short spines on each side, gonopore apical (
Figs 22–24
). Connective, loop-shaped with arms fused apically (
Figs 25, 26
). Style elongate,apex acute (
Fig 27
).
Measurements.
Length (including tegmen): Male, 3.0–3.1mm, female, 3.1–3.3mm.
Host.
Grasses.
Type
Material.
Holotype
3,
CHINA
: Xizang Autonomous Region, Linzhi,
14 August 1992
, coll. Baohai Wang (
GUGC
).
Paratypes
: 1 3, 3Ƥ, same data as
holotype
(
GUGC
).
Diagnosis.
This new species is similar to
J. darjilingensis
but differs in the structure of the aedeagal shaft, apex of the style is long and acute, and in the structure of the dorsal connective..
Etymology.
The species name is derived from the
type
locality Linzhi.