Wyuchiva menglaensis, Zhang & Wei & Webb, 2006

Zhang, Yalin, Wei, Cong & Webb, M. D., 2006, A new stegelytrine leafhopper genus from China and Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), Zootaxa 1333 (1), pp. 55-62 : 60-61

Wyuchiva menglaensis n. sp.

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Diagnosis. Differs from the preceding species by its slightly larger size, more curved processes of the male Xth segment, and narrower base of the aedeagus ventrally in lateral view.

Descriptions. Body length (incl. forewings): ♂ 6mm (x1). Generally brown. Lateral areas of face, pronotum, basal triangles of scutellum, darker; vertex reddish brown; two nearly contiguous irregular transverse bands anteriorly on head, area between inner margin of eye and clypeus, disc of scutellum, a large patch on clavus, yellowish white; clypellus dark brown apically; fore and mid legs pale yellow; forewing with some pale areas in distal cells.

Male genitalia: lateral internal pygofer process elongate, strongly upturned apically, tapered to apex. Paramere with straight digitate apical process, tapered to apex; inner margin subapically with small heel-like process and large, strongly upturned, apically crenulate process, separated by a hyaline band. Aedeagal shaft moderately robust, laterally compressed with subapical flangelike expansion on each side; apex bifurcate, basal apodeme bifurcate with arms curved laterally; base broad ventrally in lateral view.

Material. Holotype: ♂ ( IRSNB), CHINA: Yunnan Prov., Mengla CO. (101.56N, 21.48E), 8.iii.(19)99, rain forest, P. Grootaert. Etymology. Named after its type locality. Distribution. China. Biology. See Introduction. Remarks. Although not stated on the data label, Dr P. Grootaert ( IRSNB) informs us that he collected the specimen on an exposed river bank.