Key to species of the leafhopper genus Bhatia Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of a new species from China
Author
Yu, Zhou
Author
Qu, Ling
Author
Dai, Ren-Huai
Author
Yang, Mao-Fa
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-06-27
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journal article
26384
10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.11
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Bhatia longiradiata
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 1
)
Measurement
. Length (including tegmen): (
holotype
), 7.0 mm.
Description
. Body pattern yellowish brown. Head with eyes faint brown (
Fig. 1c
); ocelli separated by about
4x
distance from ocelli to adjacent eyes (
Fig. 1a
); antenna situated near upper corner of eye; anteclypeus flat and broad at base (
Fig. 1c
). Pronotum shorter than crown, with pair of black spots submarginally and straight lateral carinae. Scutellum yellowish with pair of semicircular brown markings; suture distinct and arched forward. Forewings opaque, veins yellow and anterior margin yellowish (
Fig. 1a
). Hind femur with apical setae 2+2+1.
Male genitalia
. Pygofer side rounded with numerous setae, with notch in middle of ventral margin (
Fig. 1d
). Valve nearly pentagonal. Subgenital plate broad at base, narrowing at middle, without macrosetae, only with few marginal fine setae (
Fig. 1e
). Connective short and H-shaped (
Fig. 1f
), slightly curved in profile (
Fig.
1g
). Style slender, broad at base, curved laterally and acute to apex (
Fig. 1h
). Aedeagal shaft tubulose, short moderately, curved dorsad with single elongate ventral processes in lateral view, forked and expanded in middle, extending to approximately
2x
length of aedeagal shaft in dorsal view (
Fig.
1i
). Gonopore apical.
Material examined
Holotype
,
♂
,
China
:
Guangdong province
,
Huizhou
city,
Mt. Xiangtou
,
18. V. 2013
, collected by
Meng Jiao
&
Bin Li.
Paratype
,
1♂
,
China
,
Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region
,
Rongshui village
,
Yangmei
depression,
12. VII. 2015
, collected by
Hongping Zhan.
Distribution
.
China
(
Guangdong
,
Guangxi
).
Etymology
. The new species name is derived from the Latin word “
longiradiate
”, referring to the aedeagal has a elongate forked processes.
Remarks
. This species is similar to
B. satsumensis
but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagus shaft without processes and with the shaft short and triangular in dorsal view.