A review of the leafhopper genus Subulatus Yang & Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae), with description of a new species from China
Author
Li, Yu-Jian
Author
Li, Zi-Zhong
Author
Yang, Mao-Fa
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Zootaxa
2015
3914
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3914.1.6
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Subulatus
Yang
& Z h an g
Subulatus
Yang & Zhang, 2001
: 177
Type
species
:
Subulatus bipunctatus
Yang & Zhang
Distribution.
China
(Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan).
Description.
Body medium-sized, 6.0–
7.5 mm
in length (including tegmen). Front of head slightly conically produced; vertex slightly shorter than wide, about as long as pronotum, with paired preapical spots and median apical spot black; lateral margin carinate; median longitudinal carina lamellate, median carina and submarginal carina concentrated on head; area between median carina and submarginal carina slightly concave. Frontoclypeus broad, with median longitudinal carina strongly elevated, laterally obliquely striate; lora nearly reaching apex of clypellus. Pronotum broad, wider than head. Scutellum triangular, about as long as pronotum, with transverse depression distinct. Forewing with veins prominent, with R1a present; five apical cells; appendix very narrow.
Male pygofer with elongate, slender ventral process arising near base, base wider than the distal half. Subgenital plate elongate, macrosetae irregularly distributed. Aedeagus somewhat bulbous; with pair of curved processes arising dorsally from atrium and extended posterad; distal half subulate, arched in lateral view, with many small scalelike bumps; gonopore apical. Style stout, with beaklike apex of apophysis having elongated lateral angle. Connective Y-shaped with stem longer than arms.
Remarks.
This genus is similar to
Carinata
Li & Wang
, but they can be distinguished from each other by: 1) the shape of the male pygofer in side view; 2) aedeagal end of
Subulatus
with many scalelike bumps.