Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species
Author
Lu, Lin
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
Author
Webb, M. D.
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-05-13
4604
1
176
182
journal article
26844
10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7
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Chandrapona vespertilis
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 3
)
Length (including tegmen). Male:
7.5 mm
.
Colour and external characters as in generic description. Fore femur with AM1 near midheight, IC with series of 11 fine setae; fore tibia with dorsal setal arrangement of rows PD and AD 4+4.
Male genitalia with pygofer appendage very long, curved slightly ventrally and tapered to acute apex. Style lateral lobe distinct, apophysis short and robust, apex truncate with lateroapical angle slightly produced. Aedeagus with shaft short, laterally compressed, tapered distally to hook-like apex; lateral flange-like processes very large batwing-like; ventral processes long and stout, strongly curved dorsally, extending to beyond shaft apex.
Material examined.
Holotype
: ♂,
Malaysia
(Borneo),
Sabah
,
Bukit Monkobo
, base camp, stunted hill forest,
51°48’N
,
116°58’E
,
7.viii.
1987
, 900 m,
light trap
,
A.H. Kirk-Spriggs
(
NMW
).
Distribution.
Malaysia
(
Sabah
).
Etymology.
The species takes its name from
vespertilio
the Latin name for a bat for the bat wing-like processes of the aedeagus.