Zahniserius cylindricus, Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012

Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, Redescription of the grassland leafhopper genus Doraturopsis Lindberg (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) with description of a new genus and species from China, Zootaxa 3177, pp. 24-32 : 30-31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.279927

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173762

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D487A6-7009-A076-4E9F-4A3FFECAF8B7

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scientific name

Zahniserius cylindricus
status

sp. nov.

Zahniserius cylindricus View in CoL sp. n.

( Figures 3–4 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 , Plate II)

Length. Male: 3.4–3.5mm; female: 4.5–4.7mm.

Vertex light yellow with (usually male) or without (usually female) brown markings on anterior margin (Plate II: A & B); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs (Plate II: C). Crown width nearly as long as 2x length and nearly as long as pronotum (Plate II: A & B). Ocelli on anterior margin of head 2– 3 x their own diameter from eye (Plate II: A & B). Clypellus tapering to apex (Plate II: C). Forewings with round apex (Plate II: A & B).

Male genitalia. Pygofer side length slightly more than width ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 A). Subgenital plate with median margin straight, lateral margin concave ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 B). Connective with parallel arms with distinct stem ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 F). Aedeagus gonopore large, subapical on dorsal surface ( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 G, 3H).

Female genitalia. Pygofer without macrosetae (Plate II: E). Sternite VII “W”-shaped on posterior margin (Plate II: E).

Material examined. Holotype: male, China, Sichuan Prov., Batang, Mt. Wumingshan, 4000m, 13.VII.2001, coll. Sun Qiang ( NWAFU). Paratypes: China: Yunnan Prov.: 1 male, Zhongdian City 20.VII.2007, coll. Wei Cong ( NWAFU); 6 females, Zhongdian City, 3150m, 15.VII.2001, coll. Sun Qiang ( NWAFU). Etymology. The specific epithet is the Latin word “ cylindricus ” referring to the shape of the aedeagal shaft being cylindrical.

PLATE II. Zahniserius cylindricus , sp. n. A: male habitus, dorsal view; B: female habitus, dorsal view; C: face; D: female habitus, lateral view; E: female pygofer, ventral view; F: first valvula; G: detail of first valvula; H: second valvula; I: detail of second valvula.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Zahniserius

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