Pseudoseliza crassiprocessa, Peng, Ling-Fei, Wang, Ying-Lun & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2010

Peng, Ling-Fei, Wang, Ying-Lun & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2010, A new genus and one new species of the Tribe Selizini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) from China, with a checklist of the tribe from the Oriental Region, Zootaxa 2420, pp. 46-52 : 49

Pseudoseliza crassiprocessa sp. n.

( Figs. 1–9 )

Color. Body and tegmen fawn, hindwing light brown. Eye dark brown. Ocelli reddish. Male genitalia all pale fawn.

Structure. Body length 8.30–8.43. Head including eyes narrower than pronotum; vertex wider (0.77) than long (0.47–0.48), rounded into frons; anterior margin slightly pointed, lateral carinae subparallel and slightly raised; intergenal carina obvious, positioned near anterior margin of pronotum ( Fig. 1 ). Frons wider (1.10) at widest part than long (0.90) in middle line, widest at level of antennae, apical margin and basal margin rounded, lateral carinae slightly elevated, leaf-like, with a clear median carina extending onto vertex ( Fig. 3 ). Clypeus triangular. Antenna with basal segment short, second segment cylindrical (fig. 2). Pronotum longest in midline (0.37–0.38), anterior margin width 0.55, convex and truncate and extending to level of middle of eyes, posterior margin concave, postocular eminence conical ( Figs. 1–2 ). Mesonotum wider (1.95–2.17) than long (1.28–1.30), without median longitudinal carina. Post-tibia with 6 or 7 spines apically, basal tarsal segment with 9 or 10 spines apically. Tegmen length 7.36–7.45, width between costal and sutural margins 3.20–3.25; rounded at apical and anal angles, postclaval sutural margin convex; precostal membrane wider than costal cell about 1: 0.6; vein Sc with one fork at apex, fork of M slightly basad of bifurcation of R; vein Cu forked at midlength of tegmen, both branches joining postclaval submarginal line beyond claval apex ( Fig. 4 ).

Male genitalia. Abdominal segment IX ring-like, in lateral view slightly elongate trapezium ( Fig. 6 ). Genital style parallel-sided in lateral view, dorsocaudal portion produced dorsad into broad process ( Fig. 6 ). Anal segment elongate, widest at midlength in dorsal view, apically concave ( Fig. 5 ). Phallus as long as genital style, phallobase tubular in lateral view, with line of teeth from middle of dorsolateral margin to ventral surface near apex; dorsolateral emargination shallow in lateral view, deep and wide in dorsal view, lateral emargination distinct in ventral aspect ( Fig. 7 ), dorsal lobe prolonged and membranous, lateral lobe with pair of cephaloventrad processes reaching middle of phallobase, ventral lobe slender, sword-like. Dorsum of theca with small spine medially, distal part of theca inflated and lobed ( Figs. 7–9 ).

Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype, 3: Santaishan, Mangshi, Yunnan Province, China, 366m. 18. v.1955, Kpyzhanovs ( NWAFU); Paratype, 13: Damenglong, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, 198m. 16.iv.1958, Shuyong Wang ( NWAFU).

Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin words “ crass ” (big, thick) and “ processus ” (process) which means the phallobase is large.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Pseudoseliza crassiprocessa sp. n. 1, head and thorax, dorsal view, transverse intergenal carina (tic); 2, head and thorax, left lateral view; 3, face; 4, tegmen, show bulla; 5, male anal segment, dorsal view; 6, male genitalia, left lateral view; 7, phallus, left lateral view, show dorsolateral emargination (dle), lateral lobe (ll), dorsal lobe (dl), ventral lobe (vl); 8, phallus, dorsal view, show dorsolateral emargination (dle); 9, phallus, ventral view, show ventral lobe (vl), lateral emargination (le).