Agnesiella (Draberiella) erosa, Yan, Bin & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2016

Yan, Bin & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2016, Three new species and one new record of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska, 1970 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Typhlocybini) from China, Zootaxa 4184 (3), pp. 529-540 : 534

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.7

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6074198

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/8377D40F-FFEB-DD49-FF34-FE3CFC72E7B3

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scientific name

Agnesiella (Draberiella) erosa
status

sp. nov.

Agnesiella (Draberiella) erosa View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 9–16 View FIGURES 1 – 16 , 40–48 View FIGURES 40 – 48 )

Descriptions. Male. Vertex and thorax sordid dark brownish (somewhat ochre to reddish); crown with two dark brown spots near eyes, eyes pale reddish to dark brown ( Figs 9, 11 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Frontoclypeal area sordid beige and anteclypeus dark brownish ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Pronotum with 5 black spots (one on anteromedian margin, a pair anterolaterally and larger pair posterolaterally); scutum and scutellum dark brownish to ochre ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Fore wing mostly sordid whitish with dark brownish pattern as in Fig. 42 View FIGURES 40 – 48 , brochosome field infumated with black patches on both ends, cell 1 and median of cell 2 colorless and subhyaline, cell 3 and SCP+RA vein dark brown ( Figs 10 View FIGURES 1 – 16 , 42 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Hind wing colorless and subhyaline ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ).

Female. Body general color more bright brown-reddish than male ( Figs 11, 15 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Frontoclypeal area on face broader than male, and lorum with blackish ( Figs 12, 16 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ).

Head broadly convex in front, anterior margin nearly parallel with hind margin, coronal suture extended to anterior margin of crown ( Figs 9, 11 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Length of crown distinctly less than interocular width, width of crown less than width of pronotum ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 1 – 16 ). Fore wing apex rounded, with cell 2 largest, cell 1 and cell 4 substantially equal, cell 3 smallest and subtriangular with longer petiole ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ).

Abdominal apodemes reaching apex of 6th abdominal sternite ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ).

Male genital capsule in lateral view square ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Pygpfer with two bands of setae bodering oblong area near ventral margin, large distal membranous part of candual margin with few stout dorsal setae, with single long recurved process on ventral margin ( Fig. 40 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Subgenital plate curved dorsad with club-shaped, apex curved laterad ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Paramere slender, with small preapical tooth and distal spine extend laterad ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Connective Yshaped with stem as long as arms ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ). Aedeagus dorsoatrium more developed than preatrium; shaft in lateral view, narrow in basal half, broad in apical half, with posterior serrate flange terminating in short posteroventrally curved spine, apex with pair of short, anteroventrally curved processes ( Figs 46, 47 View FIGURES 40 – 48 ).

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, Luding, Ganzi , Sichuan Province, 2300m, 13 August 2015, Coll. Hongping Zhan . Paratypes, 3♂♂, 2♀♀, same data as holotype .

Etymology. The species name refers to the erosa posterior flange on the aedeagus.

Remarks. The new species differs from all others of the genus in having the aedeagus in lateral view narrow in the basal half, broad in the apical half, with a serrate posterior flange.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Agnesiella

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