Empoasca (Empoasca) polyprocessa Fletcher & Liu

Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, Zootaxa 3055, pp. 1-21 : 3-4

Empoasca (Empoasca) polyprocessa Fletcher & Liu , sp. nov.

( Figs.10–18 ; 77–80)

Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Sangang (27° 37’ 30” N, 117° 59’ 10” E), Wuyi, Fujian Prov., 22 July 2003, coll. Yani Duan; paratypes: 3 3, same data as holotype; 1 3 1 Ƥ, Chenzhou, Hunan Prov., 27 July 1985, coll. Yalin Zhang & Yonghui Chai; 1 3 1 Ƥ, Bawangling, Hainan Prov., 25 May 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, light (all in NWAFU).

Length: 3 3.2 mm.

Ground color of body green (fig. 80). Crown with very light green patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 77). Eyes brown. Pronotum with white irregular patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen yellow-greenish. Legs light yellow to green (fig. 79).

Ventral abdominal apodemes subparallel-sided, relatively long, nearly reaching segment 6 (fig. 14). Pygofer in lateral view with posterior margin broadly rounded; 6–8 stout setae in group along posterior margin (fig. 10); pygofer appendage nearly reaches but does not exceed pygofer margin (fig. 11). Anal appendage well developed and stout (fig. 12). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad apically, not expanded apically; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; dorsolateral margin with 5 long stout setae subbasally and 26–29 short microsetae on apical half (fig. 18). Paramere with 5 teeth on dentifer, 5–7 setae subapically (fig. 17). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate (fig. 13). Aedeagus shaft well sclerotized, with six long processes arising from preatrium and curved subapically (figs. 15, 16). Gonopore terminal.

Etymology. The species name means “many-”, “process”, to describe the six long processes of the preatrium.

Distribution. China (Fujian, Hunan, Hainan).

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca collarti Dworakowska, 1977 , but differs in having six long aedeagal processes, the anal tube stout, and the apex of the pygofer processes blunt, not tapering.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 18. Empoasca (Empoasca) polyprocessa sp. nov., 10, male pygofer, lateral view; 11, pygofer appendage; 12, anal tube appendage, lateral view; 13, connective; 14, abdominal apodemes; 15, aedeagus, ventral view; 16, aedeagus, lateral view; 17, paramere; 18, subgenital plate.