Changwhania digitata Zhang and Duan

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2009, A taxonomic review of the Old World leafhopper genus Changwhania Kwon (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini), Zootaxa 2089, pp. 19-32 : 31

Changwhania digitata Zhang and Duan , n. sp.

(Figs 7–8, 9E, 9I –M)

Length (including tegmen), male: 2.8–3.1mm; female: 3.0–3.2mm.

Coloration as in ceylonensis but two transverse black markings near coronal margin on vertex usually wider and female seventh sternite with medial lobelike posterior margin usually entirely black.

Head with eyes wider than pronotum, about as long as or slightly longer than width between eyes.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate with truncate apex. Style apical process spine-like, with adjacent pronounced digitate apical lobe, slightly curved laterally. Aedeagal shaft somewhat twisted near middle, asymmetrical, with shorter subapical process and slightly longer process near apex, each process armed with a tooth.

Female seventh sternum produced lobelike medially on posterior margin.

Type. Holotype: 3, China, Yunnan Prov., Country Tengchong, Dahaoping, 2000m, 1999. xi.26, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratypes: China, Yunnan Prov.: 13, 2ƤƤ, data as holotype; 1Ƥ, Menglun, 1100m, 1999. xi.02, coll. I. Dworakowska; 13, 14ƤƤ, Country Tengchong, 1660m, 1999. xi.20, coll. Qin Daozheng; 1Ƥ, Country Tengchong, 1660m, 1999. xi.20, coll. Qin Daozheng ( BMNH); 33, 6ƤƤ, Country Tengchong, 1660m, 1999. xi.22, coll. Qin Daozheng; 13, Country Tengchong, 1660m, 1999. xi.22, coll. Qin Daozheng ( BMNH); 23, 3ƤƤ, Country Tengchong, 2000m, 1999. xi.26, coll. Qin Daozheng; 1Ƥ, Country Tengchong, 2000m, 1999. xi.26, coll. Qin Daozheng ( BMNH); 13, Country Tengchong, 1660m, 1999. xi.20, coll. Qin Daozheng; 43, 3ƤƤ, Country Tengchong, 1700m, 2006. viii.16, coll. Li Meng; 23, 1ƤƤ, Country Tengchong, 1700m, 2006. viii.16, coll. Li Meng ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the digitate inner apical process of the style.

Etymology. The name of this species is based on the finger-like inner apical process of the style.