Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) rectus Li, Li & Dai

Li, Hu, Li, Juan & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2019, Review of the leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Eurymelinae, Macropsini) with description of two new species from China, ZooKeys 855, pp. 71-83 : 76-78

Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) rectus Li, Li & Dai sp. nov. Figs 27-37

Type material.

HOLOTYPE: ♂, CHINA: Sichuan Province, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê, Luding County, Minya Konka, Yajiageng, 3800 m above sea level, 13.viii.2015, collected by Zhan Hong-Ping. PARATYPE: 1 ♂, CHINA: Sichuan Province, Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Garzê, Xiangcheng County, Shagong Town, Dagen, 3500-3900 m above sea level, 15.viii.2015, collected by Zhan Hong-Ping.

Etymology.

The new specific epithet was derived from the Latin words " rectus " indicating that the aedeagal shaft is straight relatively.

Description.

Body color. Body background color (Figs 27, 28) chocolate, punctures on surface of head, face, pronotum and scutellum darker brown. Face (Fig. 29) brownish, eyes reddish brown on facial view and pale brown on dorsal view (Fig. 27). Scutellum (Fig. 27) darker brown, both lateral corners with black triangular spots. Forewing (Figs 27, 28) evenly brown except area around outer apical cell, venation darker.

Body appearance. Head (Fig. 27) short, and prominent forward, anterior margin slightly depressed near eyes, including eyes as wide as pronotum. Face (Fig. 29) covered distinct punctures; frons with weak carina and oblique striations, central part with two smooth inflated regions without any stripes or maculae; distance between ocelli nearly 4 times of that from ocellus to adjacent eye. Pronotum (Fig. 27) with obvious, intensively transverse striations and punctures, anterior margin round, and prominent frontally, posterior margin depressed in middle, 2.6 times broader than long. Scutellum (Fig. 27) surface granulose, mid-length 1.5 times that of pronotum. Forewing (Figs 27, 28) opaque, with three anteapical cells, veins prominent.

Male genitalia. Pygofer (Fig. 30) broad basally, dorsal margin incised and straight, distal part of ventral and caudal margins carries irregular small spine-like processes, and scattered setae. Subgenital plate (Fig. 30) slender, approximatively 0.65 times ventral margin of pygofer, marginated with setae. Aedeagus (Figs 33, 34) basally broad, dorsal apodeme well developed, shaft slender, and almost straight in lateral view, lateral margins parallel in ventral view, apex of ventral margin strongly expanded, and produced to bifid process which bifurcates again; gonopore apical. Dorsal connective (Fig. 32) in lateral aspect S-shaped, carries large bifurcate process from its inner ventral margin with both branches of equal length. Style (Fig. 35), stem stout and widened gradually to truncate apex, with marginal setae.

Measurement.

Body length (including tegmen): 4.8-4.9 mm.

Distribution.

China (Sichuan).

Remarks.

This new species somewhat resembles P. (S.) aomians with both sharing approximate color pattern and external body form more or less, but it can be distinguished from the latter and other known species of Pediopsoides (Sispocnis) by the different structures of the pygofer ventral processes, aedeagus and the dorsal connective.