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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Malaysiapona brevipenis
sp. nov.
(
Fig. 1
)
Diagnosis.
This species can be distinguished in the male genitalia by the apically bi-lobed style apophysis and ro- bust aedeagal shaft.
Description.
Length (including tegmen). Male: 6.5 mm.
Crown with anterior orange band occupying less than half length, with three small black spots; pronotum slightly wider than long, forewing veins testaceous.
Head with coronal suture long; ocelli twice own diameter from adjacent eyes; fore femur AV with 5 stout setae; IC with 11 setae.
Male genitalia. Style relatively narrow, apex of apophysis bi-lobed, lateral lobe weakly developed; aedeagal shaft robust, abruptly tapered distally to acute apex in lateral view, column-like in ventral view, with several sub- apical denticuli on ventral surface; with a pair of elongate processes extended caudally from base of preatrium-like area, sinuate, another single shorter elongate process arising slightly more dorsad. Small accessory sclerite (pa- raphysis) between connective and aedeagus.
Material examined.
Holotype
:
♂
,
Malaysia
(Borneo),
Sabah
,
Danum Valley
,
5°01’N
,
117°47’E
,
30-xi-
1987
, 200 m,
light trap
, understory forest, lowland mixed dipterocarp forest grid,
No.
52,
A.H. Kirk-Spriggs
(NMW).
Distribution.
Malaysia (Sabah).
Etymology.
The species takes its name from the robust aedeagal shaft.