Salka taoyuanensis, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Seven new species of the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3430, pp. 50-60 : 56-57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282029

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6175097

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scientific name

Salka taoyuanensis
status

sp. nov.

Salka taoyuanensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 42–48 View FIGURES 42 – 48 )

Description. Vertex and anterior part of pronotum sordid yellow, with large central black patch on vertex. Eyes black. Pronotum blackish brown near hind margin, with two greyish white impressions medially. Scutellum brownish black ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ). Face fulvous, with anteclypeus, postclypeus and lorum blackish brown. Fore wing light brown. Male abdominal apodemes small, not exceeding 3rd sternite ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ).

Male genitalia: Pygofer with dorsal appendage basal half dark, pale and acute apically; ventral appendage elongate, extended dorso-caudally and tapering. Subgenital plate with 4 macrosetae in oblique row and row of short rigid setae along upper margin, about basal 1/3, with lobelike process arising from dorsolateral margin near base ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ). Style with apex thin and truncate, very slim at base ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ). Aedeagal shaft with pair of apical and basal processes; gonopore apical on ventral surface; preatrium broad and dorsal apodeme small ( Figs 46, 47 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ). Connective Y-shaped, with lateral arms long; stem short, depressed ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ).

Specimen examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Taiwan, Gaoxiong, 20-XI-2002, coll. Zizhong Li.

Measurement. Male length 3.0 mm (including wing).

Remarks. This species is similar to S. armata Dworakowska (1976) , but differs in having the aedeagus with paired basal processes ( Figs 46, 47 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ); the ventral appendage extended dorso-caudally ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ); and the connective with a well developed central lobe ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 42 – 48 ).

Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Taoyuan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Typhlocybinae

Genus

Salka

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