Baibarana sinuata, Liang & Jiang & Webb, 2006

Liang, Ai-Ping, Jiang, Guo-Mei & Webb, M. D., 2006, Revision of the Oriental spittlebug genera Baibarana Matsumura and Telogmometopius Jacobi (Hemiptera: Cercopidae: Rhinaulacini), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2071-2099 : 2083-2084

Baibarana sinuata sp. nov.

( Figures 28 , 51–55 )

Description

Length „ 3.8 mm.

Vertex and pronotum olivaceous yellow, posterior half of pronotum with pale brown suffusion; face and sternum, apical segment of rostrum, scutellum, leg, fore wings and abdomen brown; basal segment of rostrum, apical veins of fore wings, metapleura, metasterna, apex of fore and middle femora, fore and middle tibiae and tarsi and hind legs, ochraceous.

Fore wings with distinct apical cells.

Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 51–53 ) with expanded basal region elongate, apical spine-like process moderately long, directed medially and somewhat sinuate in lateral view, overlaid apically in ventral view. Lateral plates ( Figures 52, 54 ) broad basally, apical part narrow. Styles ( Figures 52, 55 ) expanded, club-like subapically, thereafter strongly constricted, neck-like and expanded apically. Aedeagus as in Figure 52 .

Female: unknown.

Distribution

Vietnam.

Material examined

Holotype: „, Vietnam: Plateau G., 63 km NE of Kontum, 1170 m, 11–12 June 1960 ( R. E. Leech) ( BPBM).

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by the shape of its subgenital plates and styles.

Figures

Figures 25–39. Baibarana and Telogmometopius species, dorsal habitus. (25) B. bicolor, holotype „. (26) B. longispina sp. nov., paratype „, Laos. (27) B. rufofasciata, paratype ♀, Vietnam: Fyan. (28) B. sinuata sp. nov., holotype „. (29) B. uchidai, ♀, Taiwan: Taichung. (30) T. angulatus, paratype ♀, northern Borneo: Mt Kinabalu. (31) T. bicarinatus, paratype ♀. (32) T. bifaciatus, holotype „. (33) T. rangoonensis sp. nov., holotype „. (34) T. carinilabratus, ♀, China: Tibet. (35) T. himalayensis, holotype „. (36) T. obsoletus, „, China: Hubei. (37) T. sabahensis, paratype ♀. (38, 39) T. sarawakensis sp. nov., holotype „ and paratype ♀, respectively.

Figures 40–55. Baibarana species, male genitalia, left lateral view except where indicated. (40–44) B. bicolor: (40) male genital capsule, ventral view; (41) male genital capsule; (42) subgenital plate; (43) genital style; (44) aedeagus. (45–50) B. uchidai: (45) male genital capsule, ventral view; (46) subgenital plate; (47) male genital capsule; (48) apex of pygofer, ventral view; (49) genital style; (50) aedeagus. (51–55) B. sinuata: (51) male genital capsule, ventral view; (52) male genital capsule; (53) subgenital plate; (54) lateral plate; (55) genital style.