Sobrala lamellaris, Kang, Ju-Xia & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2015

Kang, Ju-Xia & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2015, Review of the genus Sobrala Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Alebrini) with description of four new species and a new record from China, Zootaxa 3974 (2), pp. 245-256 : 252

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D1444C18-EC27-438B-B90E-4A0F821B9EF7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6103468

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E339879A-AC37-FD1B-FF3A-FD3AB6B3F931

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Plazi

scientific name

Sobrala lamellaris
status

sp. nov.

Sobrala lamellaris View in CoL sp. nov.

(Figures 3, 8, 13, 46–54)

Vertex beige to brown, eyes blackish. Pronotum and scutum brown, scutellum dark brown, yellowish-brown at scutoscutellar sulcus. Fore wing and hind wing infuscate and semitransparent, wing venation dark infuscate.

Male genitalia. Abdominal apodemes ( Fig.48 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) reaching 4th abdominal sternite. Pygofer side ( Fig. 49 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) broad with roundish termination, with row of microsetae at hind margin, provided with big lamelliform extension ( Fig. 50 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) with some small teeth. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 51 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) developed, slightly longer than pygofer side, provided with a few small teeth situated at process and several very small microsetae at the centre of plate. Connective ( Fig. 52 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) Yshaped. Paramere ( Fig. 53 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) with apex curved ventrad, beak-like at apical part. Penis ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 46 – 54 ) dorsal apodeme and preatrium not developed, penis stem S-shaped, gonopore apical.

Measurements. Male 3.35–3.70 mm (including wing); female 3.60–4.00 mm (including wing).

Material examined. Holotype: male, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov., 18 Aug. 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui; Paratypes: 8 males 1 female, same data as holotype; 1 male 10 females, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov., 3 Aug. 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui; 2 females, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov., 5 Aug. 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui; 13 females, Chenzhou Suxianling, Hunan Prov., 8 Aug. 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin & Cai Yonghui; 1 male, Emei Qingyinge, Sichuan Prov., 11 Sept. 1988, coll. Zhou Jingruo, Zheng Shuling & Xu Qiuyuan; 9 males, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov., 650–670m, 3 Aug. 2004, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia; 11 males 2 females, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov., 650–670m, 8 Aug. 2004, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia; 7 males 2 females, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Prov., 650–670m, 9 Aug. 2004, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia; 1 male 1 female, Suichuan Wuzhifeng, Jiangxi Prov., 650–670m, 13 Aug. 2004, coll. Wei Cong & Yang Meixia; 8 males, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov., 300m, 27 Jul. 2011, coll. Wang Yang; 2 males, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov., 1326m, 28 Jul. 2011, coll. Wang Yang; 15 males, Tianmushan, Zhejiang Prov., 300m, 29 Jul. 2011, coll. Wang Yang.

Remarks. This species differs from all other species in this genus by roundish termination of pygofer side, beak-like apical part of paramere and S-shaped penis stem.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word “ lamellaris ” referring to the shape of the pygofer side extension.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Sobrala

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