Review of the genus Sobrala Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Alebrini) with description of four new species and a new record from China
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Kang, Ju-Xia
Author
Zhang, Ya-Lin
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Zootaxa
2015
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.8
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Sobrala lamellaris
sp. nov.
(Figures 3, 8, 13, 46–54)
Vertex beige to brown, eyes blackish. Pronotum and scutum brown, scutellum dark brown, yellowish-brown at scutoscutellar sulcus. Fore wing and hind wing infuscate and semitransparent, wing venation dark infuscate.
Male genitalia.
Abdominal apodemes (
Fig.48
) reaching 4th abdominal sternite. Pygofer side (
Fig. 49
) broad with roundish termination, with row of microsetae at hind margin, provided with big lamelliform extension (
Fig. 50
) with some small teeth. Subgenital plate (
Fig. 51
) developed, slightly longer than pygofer side, provided with a few small teeth situated at process and several very small microsetae at the centre of plate. Connective (
Fig. 52
) Yshaped. Paramere (
Fig. 53
) with apex curved ventrad, beak-like at apical part. Penis (
Fig. 54
) dorsal apodeme and preatrium not developed, penis stem S-shaped, gonopore apical.
Measurements.
Male 3.35–3.70 mm (including wing); female 3.60–4.00 mm (including wing).
Material examined.
Holotype
: male, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov.,
18 Aug. 1985
, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui;
Paratypes
:
8 males
1 female
, same data as
holotype
;
1 male
10 females
, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov.,
3 Aug. 1985
, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui;
2 females
, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov.,
5 Aug. 1985
, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui;
13 females
, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov.,
8 Aug. 1985
, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui;
1 male
, Emei Qingyinge, Sichuan Prov.,
11 Sept. 1988
, coll. Zhou Jingruo, Zheng Shuling & Xu Qiuyuan;
9 males
, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov.,
650–670m
,
3 Aug. 2004
, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia;
11 males
2 females
, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov.,
650–670m
,
8 Aug. 2004
, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia;
7 males
2 females
, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov.,
650–670m
,
9 Aug. 2004
, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia;
1 male
1 female
, Suichuan Wuzhifeng, Jiangxi Prov.,
650–670m
,
13 Aug. 2004
, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia;
8 males
, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov.,
300m
,
27 Jul. 2011
, coll. Wang Yang;
2 males
, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov.,
1326m
,
28 Jul. 2011
, coll. Wang Yang;
15 males
, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov.,
300m
,
29 Jul. 2011
, coll. Wang Yang.
Remarks.
This species differs from all other species in this genus by roundish termination of pygofer side, beak-like apical part of paramere and S-shaped penis stem.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word “
lamellaris
” referring to the shape of the pygofer side extension.