Circulocercopis sinuatus, Liang & Webb, 2002

Liang, A. - P. & Webb, M. D., 2002, New taxa and revisionary notes in Rhinaulacini spittlebugs from southern Asia (Homoptera: Cercopidae), Journal of Natural History 36 (6), pp. 729-756 : 740

Circulocercopis sinuatus sp. nov.

(®gures 6±10)

Length: 5.8±6.0 mm, 6.8 mm.

External characters as in generic description with head and pronotum with brown transverse bands and markings on fore wings indistinct; vertex with medial length 0.9 times narrowest transocular width.

Male genitalia with subgenital plate (®gure 7) with expanded basal area similar in length to apical process; style (®gure 10) with dorsal process subapical, dorsal lobe acuminate; aedeagal shaft in lateral aspect (®gure 6) with ®liform distal half sinuate.

Etymology. This species is named based on the shape of its aedeagal shaft.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE:, China: Guangxi, Napo, Defu , 1300 m, 16 August 1998 ( T.- L. He) ( IZCAS) . PARATYPES: China: 1, same data as holotype; 1 , same data as holotype, except, 15 August 1998 (W.-Z. Li); 1 , same data except, 15 August 1998 (F.-S. Huang) ( IZCAS, BMNH) .

Distribution. South-west China (south Guangxi).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by its longer vertex and sinuate rather than apically coiled aedeagal shaft.