Makilingia paranigra, Dietrich & Zahniser, 2019

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 489-490

Makilingia paranigra n. sp.

( Figs 2 A–B, 6K–O, 8L, 9W–X)

Description. Length of male 5.5 mm, female 6.0 mm. Coloration. Black, unmarked except antennae and legs pale stramineous. Structure. Head produced with crown anterior margin broadly parabolic; face with frontoclypeus and anteclypeus finely shagreen and finely punctate, clypeal suture obsolete, anteclypeus in profile very slightly angulate; large punctations restricted to genae. Forewing venation relatively well delimited, without supernumerary branches or crossveins; s crossvein absent.

Male genitalia. Pygofer appendage robust, straight in basal half, curved slightly dorsad distally, broadened then tapered preapically, extended beyond lobe by ca. 1/4 total length. Subgenital plate relatively elongate and narrow, nearly straight in lateral view, lateral margins distinctly constricted near midlength in ventral view distal compressed section with extensive brown pigmentation, dorsal callosity with slender posteromedial extension. Style with preapical lobe sharply angulate, preapical heel distinct but small. Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium narrow, nearly straight basally then bent dorsad near atrium, atrial flanges depressed and curved dorsad, shaft compressed and strongly expanded distally, with arcuate anteroapical hoodlike ridge; in posterior view with preatrium strongly tapered toward atrium, atrium triangular with flanges tapered, shaft parallel-sided with apex shallowly bifid.

Female. Sternite VII less than twice as wide as long, posterior margin with pair of prominent submedial lobes separated by V-shaped emargination. Second valvulae with dorsal margin arcuate at base of blade, nearly straight distally, teeth prominent, rounded, becoming smaller and more close-set distally.

Etymology. The species name alludes to the overall similarity of this species to M. nigra .

Material examined. Holotype male, PHILIPPINES: Negros Occidental, Murcia, Mt. Canlaon 500–700m, 1–3 August 2010, A. Mohagan; 1 male and 1 female paratype, same data ( INHS).

Notes. This species differs from other species having the dorsum uniformly black in having the lateral processes of the aedeagal atrium lamelliform.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Makilingia spp., dorsal and lateral habitus: A–B, M. paranigra, holotype male; C–D, M. pruinosa, male; E–F, M. siamensis, holotype male; G–H, M. sibuyanensis lectotype male. I–J, M. similima, lectotype male; K–L, M. speciosa, paralectotype female; M–N, M. surigaoensis, lectotype male; O–P, M. suturalis, lectotype male; Q–R, M. tenebrifrons, holotype male. S–T, M. tettigonoides, lectotype male. U–V, M. uncinata, holotype male; W–X, M. viraktamathi, holotype male; Y–Z, M. woodworthi, holotype male. AA–BB, M. xanthopicta, holotype male.