Dentaneura henanensis Song, Li & Dai, 2016

Song, YueHua, Li, ZiZhong & Dai, RenHuai, 2016, A remarkable new genus and species of Erythroneurini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Florida Entomologist 99 (3), pp. 371-375 : 375

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1653/024.099.0305

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/30475F36-FF97-FFFA-4CD5-E10FFAF7A070

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Felipe

scientific name

Dentaneura henanensis Song, Li & Dai
status

sp. nov.

Dentaneura henanensis Song, Li & Dai View in CoL sp. nov. ( Figs. 1–12 View Figs )

TYPE LOCALITY

China: Henan Province, Mt. Baiyun.

DESCRIPTION

Body length: Ƌ, 3.1–3.2 mm.

Vertex ( Figs. 1 and 6 View Figs ) brownish yellow, with pair of milky irregular preapical spots and with longitudinal milky stripes along inner sides of eyes. Eyes ( Figs. 1, 2, 3 View Figs ) brown black. Pronotum ( Figs. 1, 6 View Figs ) whitish yellow, with median and posterior margin dark. Face ( Fig. 3 View Figs ) brown yellow, frontoclypeus long and narrow, with 2 large milky white markings apically; anteclypeus broad, whitish yellow. Forewing ( Figs. 1 and 4 View Figs ) pale, with 1 continuous light brown vitta parallel to clavus suture.

Male: Second sternal apodemes (2S) ( Fig. 5 View Figs ) bladelike, extended to 4th sternite.

Pygofer side ( Fig. 7 View Figs ) broad, with 1 dorsal macroseta, numerous microtrichia scattered at caudal area. Pygofer dorsal appendage movably articulated, bifurcate at base, dorsal branch longer than ventral branch, extended beyond apex of lobe. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 8 View Figs ) with 3 marginal macrosetae at base, 4 macrosetae on lateral surface, and 2 robust teethlike setae at apex. Style ( Fig. 9 View Figs ) with apex inverted-footlike, preapical lobe small, with apex hooklike. Connective ( Fig. 12 View Figs ) Y-shaped, with stem truncate apically, central lobe much short than lateral arms. Aedeagus ( Figs. 10 and 11 View Figs ) with paired short apical processes, preatrium little longer than aedeagal shaf, dorsal apodeme small in lateral view, gonopore apical on ventral surface.

Female: Unknown.

MATERIAL EXAMINED

HOLOTYPE: 1 male; CHINA: Henan Prov., Mt. Baiyun (33.6° N, 111.83° E), 1,300–1,400 m, 17-VIII-2008, coll. Yuehua Song and Can Li. GoogleMaps PARATYPE: 1 male, same data as Holotype GoogleMaps .

DISTRIBUTION

China (Henan Province).

DIAGNOSIS

The new species can be distinguished from other species with its subgenital plate extremely short, with 3 macrosetae along upper margin sub-basally and 2 strong toothlike setae apically; pygofer lobe with a single dorsal macroseta.

ETYMOLOGY

The specific name refers to the type-locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Dentaneura

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