Qadria daliensis, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2014

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2014, Five new species of Qadria Mahmood (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3760 (3), pp. 439-448 : 442-444

2. Qadria daliensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 9–15 ; d–f)

Description. Body length male 3.3 mm; female 3.4–3.6 mm. Head ( Fig. 9 , d) slightly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin angulately produced medially. Crown ( Fig. 9 , d) sordid brown, with two milky preapical spots. Coronal suture (Fig. 1) distinct, extended nearly to half of vertex. Eyes ( Fig. 9 , d) blackish grey. Face (Fig. f) with anteclypeus and frontoclypeus brownish yellow, gena with blackish brown spat under antennal pit, other areas of gena yellowish white. Pronotum ( Fig. 9 , d) broad, concolorous with vertex, with darker, black brown middle part and posterior margin. Mesonotum ( Fig. 9 , d), sordid brown. Basal triangles concolorous with rest of mesonotum. Fore wing ( Fig. 10 , d) brownish white, its apex darker, with several large orange red or orange yellow markings.

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe ( Fig. 11 ) broad, with several long macrosetae at basal lower angle and sparse long fine setae, short macrosetae scattered around caudal magin on inner surface. Pygofer dorsal appendage ( Fig. 11 ) immovably fused to margin of pygofer lobe, with a basal line of weakness, expanded basally, with twisted dorsal edge subapically near apex, apex pointed. Anal tube ( Fig. 11 ) with basal processes bifurcate apically, ventral posterior branch little longer than dorsal anterior branch. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 12 ) distinctly broadened, with several stout setae in distinct group subbasally, pocketlike at apex, 4 basal macrosetae on lateral surface, other numerous marginal peglike short microsetae forming continuous row. Style ( Fig. 13 ) with apex expanded, second point short. Aedeagus ( Figs. 14, 15 ) with two pairs of processes arising from base and apex of shaft respectively: apical pair short, extended ventrad; basal pair very long, much longer than shaft, with small rounded impressions distally. Preatrium short, but longer than dorsal apodeme. Gonopore ( Figs. 14, 15 ) apical. Connective ( Fig. 15 ) about U-shaped.

Specimens examined. Holotype ♂: China, Yunnan Prov., Dali, Erhai, 4 August 2006, coll. Zaihua Yang. Paratypes: 3♀♀, China, Yunnan Prov., Lanping, 8 August 2006, coll. Qiongzhang Song.

Diagnosis. The male genital apparatus of the new species is similar to that of Qadria cajanae Ahmed (1971) , but can be distinguished from the latter by the reduced dorsal apodeme, broad aedeagal shaft in lateral view; pronotum without V- or Y-shaped dark patch medially.

Etymology. The specific epithet is named for the type locality, Dali, Yunnan Prov.

Figures

FIGURES 9 – 15. Qadria daliensis Song & Li sp. nov. 9. Head and thorax, dorsal view; 10. Fore wing; 11. Male pygofer lobe, lateral view; 12. Subgenital plate; 13. Style; 14. Aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 15. Aedeagus and connective, ventral view.