Mimotettix multispinosus, Wei, Xingtao & Xing, Jichun, 2018

Wei, Xingtao & Xing, Jichun, 2018, Additions to the leafhopper genus Mimotettix (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) from Yunnan Province, China, ZooKeys 786, pp. 129-138 : 129

Mimotettix multispinosus sp. n. Figs 1-4, 5-12

Description.

Body reddish brown, vertex with two cream transverse bands anteriorly bordered with dark brown (Figs 1, 3). Eyes black, ocelli pale yellow. Forewings brownish hyaline, with scattered hyaline areas, veins dark brown (Figs 1, 2). Legs dark brown.

Head including eyes slightly wider than pronotum. Vertex roundly produced, slightly shorter medially than the distance between eyes. Ocelli located on anterior margin of vertex, separated from eyes by own diameter. Face slightly flattened, similar in length to width; frontoclypeus narrow, longer than width between eyes; anteclypeus slightly expanded apically (Fig. 4); antennae arising near mid-height of eye in facial view. Pronotum slightly longer than vertex, laterally carinate. Forewings with four apical cells and three subapical cells, outer subapical cell slightly tapered apically, inner subapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia: Pygofer very elongate and tapered posteriorly in lateral view, with long stout setae on posteroventral margins (Fig. 5). Valve triangulate (Fig. 6). Subgenital plate elongate, tapering posteriorly to lightly sclerotised elongate apex, with uniseriate submarginal row of stout setae ventrolaterally (Fig. 7). Aedeagus with shaft very elongate; apical process relatively short, its length nearly 1/7 length of shaft, curved to one side, with many fine spines; gonopore apical (Figs 8, 9). Connective ‘H’ shaped with arms of stem long and sinuate in lateral view, bracing base of aedeagus (Figs 10, 11). Style relatively narrow, apical process acute, turned laterally (Fig. 12).

Measurement.

Length (including tegmen): ♂, 5.5-5.7 mm.

Type material.

Holotype ♂, China: Yunnan Prov., Pingbian County, Daweishan, 7 August 2014, coll. Meina Guo (GUGC); paratypes, 2♂♂, same data as holotype except 4 August 2014, coll. Zhengxiang Zhou and 18 August 2017, coll. Yingjian Wang (GUGC).

Distribution.

China (Yunnan).

Remarks.

The new species is similar to M. sinuatus sp. n., but can be distinguished by the characters noted in the key. See also Discussion.

Etymology.

The new species name is derived from the Latin words “multi” and “spinosus”, referring to the apical process of aedeagal shaft with many spines.