Thomsonia breviaea, He & Zhang & Mckamey & Zahniser, 2019

He, Zhiqiang, Zhang, Yalin, Mckamey, Stuart H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, The Chinese Hecalina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Hecalini) with descriptions of a new genus and seven new species, Zootaxa 4679 (2), pp. 257-285 : 273

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4679.2.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CAFEA77F-1A4B-49D0-91DB-E55BE443B28C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797755

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CC87C7-056A-487F-418D-FAD8FAC918BD

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scientific name

Thomsonia breviaea
status

sp. nov.

Thomsonia breviaea View in CoL , sp. n.

( Figs 106–115 View FIGURES 106–115 )

Type material. Holotype: ♂, CHINA : Shandong Province: Yantai, Kunlun Mountain , 12. xii. 2001, coll. Daozheng Qin and & Zhenjiang Liu. Paratypes: 1♀, same data as holotype ; 1♂, Laiyang , 14. xii. 2001, coll. Daozheng Qin and Zhenjiang Liu ; 1♂, Qixia, Shibapan , 16. xii. 2001, coll. Daozheng Qin and Zhenjiang Liu.

Description. Colour. Yellow green. Frontoclypeus yellowish. Ocelli pale yellow. Eyes brown, sometime with a white line medially. Forewings hyaline and veins slightly greenish.

Body length, male 7.1 mm to the tip of forewing, female 7.0– 7.6 mm to the tip of forewing, 7.5–8.0 mm to the end of ovipositor. Vertex wide triangular, apically subangular in male and broadly rounded in female, slightly upturned anteriorly. Ocellus close to corresponding eye. Measurements of vertex length: interocular width: pronotal length (mm): male 0.67: 1.1: 0.78, female 0.84: 1.4: 0.84. Pronotum as wide as head.

Male genitalia: Subgenital plate with 4 setae laterally. Pygofer side slightly rounded apically. Aedeagus with pair of branched terminal processes, outer pair curving dorsally, about 1/4 as long as shaft, inner pair projecting dorsally, short, less than 1/3 as long as outer pair, tapering apically; gonopore subapical; apodeme developed

Female genitalia: Ovipositor extending beyond pygofer approximately 2 times its apical width. Seventh sternum with U-shaped excavation medially.

Distribution. China (Shandong).

Etymology. The species name, an adjective, is derived from the Latin word “breviae” referring to the shorter terminal processes.

Remarks. This species resembles T. lineatus , but the latter has subequal slender aedeagal processes.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Thomsonia

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