Maiestas remigia, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 22-23

Maiestas remigia sp. nov.

( Fig. 21 ; Plate III: C; Plate IV: F; Plate VI: N)

Length. Male: 3.8–3.9mm; female: 4.3–4.5mm.

Stramineous (Plate III: C). Vertex light yellow with six small, dark brown dots on anterior margin, brown longitudinal band midway between eye and midline, eye from brown to dark (Plate III: C); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum and scutellum stramineous (Plate III: C). Leg marked with dark brown. Forewing light brown, bor- der of cells fuscous (Plate III: C).

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate lateral margin slightly convex, apex bluntly rounded ( Fig. 21 C); style very long, preapical lobe short and narrow, apophysis digitate, slightly upturned distally ( Fig. 21 D); connective lightly longer than aedeagus, aedeagal shaft in lateral view sinuate, slightly broader basally and tapered to obliquely truncate apex ( Figs 21 E, 21F).

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternum with large median U-shape excavation (see Plate IV: F and Plate VI: N).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Fangcheng, Mt. Pinglongshan, 2 December 2001, coll. He Zhiqiang. Paratypes: China, 1ɗ, same data as holotype; Guangxi Autonomous Region: 1Ψ, Daxinxialei, 650m, 1 March 1998, coll. Huang Fusheng ( IZCAS); 2ɗ, Fangcheng, Tongzhong, 3 December 2001, coll. He Zhiqiang (1ɗ, BMNH); Hainan Prov.: 1ɗ, Yacheng, 16 May 1983; 1ɗ, Bawangling, 25 May 1983; 1ɗ, Liangyuan, 30 May 1983; 1ɗ, 2ΨΨ, Liangyuan, 1 June 1983; 1Ψ, Qiongzhong, 5 June 1983; 3ΨΨ, Tongshen, 7 June 1983; 1Ψ, Tongshen, 7 June 1983 ( BMNH). All collected at light by Zhang Yalin and NWAFU, except where indicated.

Remarks. This species is closely resembles to crura , but the subgenital plate has a more rounded lateral margin and apex ( Fig. 21 C) and the style apophysis is smooth ( Fig. 21 D).

Etymology. The name of this species is based on the oar-like shape of the connective and aedeagus in lateral view.

Figures

FIGURE 21. M. remigia sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: valve, ventral view; C: subgenital plate, ventral view; D: style, dorsal view; E & F: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.