Malaysiapona brevipenis, Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2019

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4604 (1), pp. 176-182 : 178

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EB0717E7-E22D-4BE4-9F9E-E00E57C1B699

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6B45F-FF96-3A30-A784-D3D6C3BCFA7F

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Plazi

scientific name

Malaysiapona brevipenis
status

sp. nov.

Malaysiapona brevipenis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 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). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Malaysia (Sabah).

Etymology. The species takes its name from the robust aedeagal shaft.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Malaysiapona

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