Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013

Wang, Xu, Yang, Mingsheng & Wei, Cong, 2015, A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3957 (4), pp. 408-424 : 413-415

Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013 , new record to China

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Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013b: 257 .

Material examined. 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Bawangling, Hainan Province, 176 m, light trap, 12.v.2006, coll. Men Qiulei & Fu Qiang; 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Wuzhishan, Hainan Province, 450 m, light trap, 22.v.2007, coll. Wang Yinglun & Zhai Qing; 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Yinggeling, Hainan Province, 450 m, light trap, 22.v.2007, coll. Wang Yinglun & Zhai Qing; 1♀ ( NWAFU), China: Mengla County, Yunnan Province, 1.v.2013, coll. Yang Mingsheng.

Measurements (in mm). (3♂♂, 1♀): Body length: male 26.8–28.7, female 28.7; fore wing length: male 36.2– 37.8, female 38.0; fore wing width: male 10.6–11.8, female 11.5; width of head including eyes: male 9.3–10.1, female 9.4; pronotum width (including pronotal collar): male 9.3–10.2, female 9.5; mesonotum width: male 7.8– 8.6, female 8.2.

Description of male. Head ( Figs. 4 A, B, 5A). Slightly wider than mesonotum and sparsely covered with golden pile. Olivaceous with the following black markings: a median upside-down trapezoid marking enclosing ocelli reaching frontoclypeal suture; a V-shaped folding line extending from medial supra-antennal plate to posterior ends of each eye. Eyes and antennae fuscous, ocelli red. Postclypeus greenish-tawny with black arrowhead shaped marking in dorsal view; black transverse grooves on each side, and black reduced laterally in middle grooves. Anteclypeus olivaceous-tawny along midline, black laterally and along posterior margin. Rostrum light olivaceous-tawny with piceous apex, extending to posterior coxae.

Thorax ( Figs. 4 A, 5A). Prothorax generally olivaceous-tawny. Pronotum disk with following black markings: pair of central longitudinal fasciae, extending from anterior margin of pronotum to pronotal collar, curved outward and dilated both anteriorly and posteriorly. Pair of oblique fasciae along paramedian fissure ochreous; lateral margins of pronotum disk black. Pronotal collar generally olivaceous-tawny, edged in black, with pair of black fasciae and pair of ochreous fasciae laterally; a black marking laterally anterior to lateral angle including tooth. Mesonotum olivaceous-tawny with following black markings: a medial black longitudinal fascia dilated posteriorly; pair of fasciae along medial parapsidal suture; pair of small markings anteriorly between parapsidal sutures and lateral sigilla; a broad, interrupted fascia along each lateral sigilla; pair of large spots on scutal depressions. Cruciform elevation olivaceous-tawny with black markings on distal anterior arm. Golden pile in depressions and along lateral mesonotum.

Legs ( Fig. 4 B). Mostly olivaceous-tawny. Femora striped with fuscous, with primary spine oblique, secondary spine parallel to primary spine, subapical spine small and more oblique. Tibiae testaceous, fore tibiae striped with tawny, middle tibiae tawny distally. Tarsi testaceous, fore tarsi fuscous proximally and distally, middle tarsi fuscous distally. Pretarsal claws testaceous basally and fuscous distally.

Wings ( Fig. 4 A, B). Hyaline, fore wing with fuscous spots at bases of second and third apical cells; apical cell with distal portion infuscated. Venation of fore wing ochraceous to node then becoming black distally; basal cell clear; basal membrane greenish-white. Hind wing venation black except ochraceous cubitus posterior vein, cubitus anterior, cubitus anterior 1, cubitus anterior 2 and anal vein 1; anal vein 3 fuscous.

Abdomen ( Figs. 4 A, B, 5B). Slightly longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation. Obconical and generally tawny dorsally, covered with short silvery pile and white pollinosity. Hind margin of tergite 1, anterior margins of tergites 2–8 black, amount of coloration increasing laterally and posteriorly in posterior tergites. Timbal covers tawny, slightly expanded laterally; timbals concealed by timbal covers in dorsal view. Opercula testaceous, lateral margin straight, inner margin curved to base and separated far from the other one, with rounded apices passing posterior margin of abdominal sternite IV. Abdominal sternites mostly testaceous, with fuscous marking on sternite VII. Epipleurite VI–VIII with irregular, fuscous to black patches.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 5 C, D). Pygofer testaceous to fuscous. Basal lobe of pygofer thin, long and parallel to each other, with long golden pile. Anal styles fuscous. Uncus fuscous except tawny ring around anal styles. Median uncal lobes membranous and fused distally, with a pair of processes medially. Lateral uncal lobes ossified, arched posteriorly, with lateral margins curved distally.

Description of female ( Fig. 6 ). Opercula broadly separated from each other, posterior margin just extending to abdominal sternite II. Abdominal segment 9 mostly black, with part tawny basally in ventral view; ovipositor sheath extending beyond segment 9, posterior margin of sternite VII incised at middle. Other characteristics similar to male.

Distribution. China (Hainan, Yunnan), Vietnam.

Remarks. This species was original described from Vietnam by Sanborn (2013b), but with female unknown. In this study, we redescribe this species in detail, with the female described for the first time. This species is similar to H. lueta sp. n., but can be easily distinguished from the latter by its smaller body size, the infuscation on the apical portion of the fore wing, and the shape of male uncal lobes.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013 (male). A. habitus, dorsal view; B. habitus, ventral view.

FIGURE 5. Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013 (male). A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. abdomen, ventral view; C. male pygofer, ventral view (inner margin of median uncal lobe is shown by a thin green line); D. male pygofer, lateral view.

FIGURE 6. Haphsa apicoinfuscata Sanborn, 2013 (female). A. habitus, dorsal view; B. habitus, ventral view; C. female terminalia, lateral view; D. female terminalia, ventral view.