New taxa and new records of Erythroneurini from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae)
Author
Cao, Yanghui
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, CN- 712100, P. R. China; e-mail: yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn & Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA; e-mails: caoyh @ illinois. edu, arboridia @ gmail. com, chdietri @ illinois. edu
Author
Dmitriev, Dmitry A.
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA; e-mails: caoyh @ illinois. edu, arboridia @ gmail. com, chdietri @ illinois. edu
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA; e-mails: caoyh @ illinois. edu, arboridia @ gmail. com, chdietri @ illinois. edu
Author
Zhang, Yalin
Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, CN- 712100, P. R. China; e-mail: yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn
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Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2019
Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae
2019-06-03
59
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189
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http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aemnp-2019-0017
journal article
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10.2478/aemnp-2019-0017
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Levigata arborea
sp. nov.
(
Figs 2
A–O, 12E–H)
Type
locality.
China
,
Yunnan province
, Jinghong city environs, Bubeng village.
Type material.
HOLOTYPE
: ♁,
CHINA
:
YUNNAN
:
Jinghong
,
Bubeng village
,
4.ix.2010
,
light trap
,
Meng Zhang
leg. (
NWAU
)
.
PARATYPES
: 16 ♁♁, same data as
holotype
; 16 ♁♁, same data as
holotype
except Juan Han leg.; 2♁♁, same data as
holotype
except
3.ix.2010
; 9♁♁, Jinghong, Yexianggu,
30.viii.2010
, light trap, Meng Zhang leg. (all
NWAU
).
Description.
Ground color (
Figs 12
E–H) dirty tawny, eyes black, vertex dirty pale-yellow, with blurry orange markings and small black patch in middle of transition from crown to face; frontoclypeal area dark with edges lighter, anteclypeus brown basomedially, lorum and gena pale. Pronotum with large black medial patch on fore margin. Scutum and scutellum off-white, black at tip. Forewing brown, with several lighter areas.
Abdominal apodemes 2S (
Fig. 2E
) extremely small, apodemes 3T (
Figs 2C, D
) variable in size among individuals.
Male terminalia.Anal tube (
Fig. 2F
) weakly sclerotized basally, with short appendage (
Fig. 2G
), bent in right angle, apex blunt. Pygofer side (
Fig. 2F
) nearly rectangular, hind margin truncate; dorsal appendage (
Figs 2F, G
) short, slightly curved ventrad. Subgenital plate (
Figs 2I, J
) with membranous dorsal side wider than sclerotized ventral side in apical part, with 2–3 macrosetae. Style (
Figs 2K, L
) with apex lance-shaped in lateral view, curved ventrad. Connective (
Fig. 2M
) broad, central lobe slim and long. Aedeagal shaft (
Figs 2N, O
) with lateral surfaces well sclerotized, bifurcated both basally and apically in ventral view, two sides only fused at the connection with preatrium, with membranous inner side and apical part; dorsal apodeme wide in ventral view; preatrium about twice longer than shaft; gonopore not delimited.
Measurements. Male body length 2.85–2.90 mm.
Etymology.
The specific epithet is the Latin adjective “
arboreus
” which means “resembling a tree”, referring to the tree-like aedeagal shaft in the ventral view.
Distribution.
So far only known from
Yunnan province
in the south of
China
.