Hishimonus gillespiei, Dai, Wu, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Yalin, 2013

Dai, Wu, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, First records of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara from Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species, Zootaxa 3670 (3), pp. 301-316 : 314-315

Hishimonus gillespiei sp. nov.

( Figs. 9 A, 9B, 10A–F)

Holotype, male, North Thailand Hort. Res. Stn. SW of Ban Mae Win, 18o37’32”N 98o30’17”E, 21.v.2005, P.S. Gillespie, u. v. light ( ASCU: ASCTHE030091). Paratype, 1 male, same data as holotype ( NWAFU).

Description. Evenly pale greenish testaceous on face and dorsum with faint transverse brown line across vertex. Tegmen pale whitish with brown mottling becoming denser towards apex and well defined large semicircular patch against claval margin, extending across half width of tegmen, margined anteriorly and ventrally with darker brown and with pale area medially against hind margin.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plates broadly rounded, relatively short with long apical process almost as long as plate which bears dense hair setae along margin and a submarginal line of macrosetae. Paramere with apical process long, slightly curved posteriorly and slightly pointed apically. Aedeagus in posterior view with shafts divergent and broadening from base to about three quarters length, then narrowed to apical gonopore. In lateral view, aedeagus curved dorsally, of even width to about half length, then narrowed to gonopore and more distad with narrow, fingerlike process strongly recurved anteroventrally.

Etymology. The species is named after Peter S. Gillespie (ASCU) who collected the type material. Comments. This species is similar to H. diffractus but lacks the thornlike process on the aedeagal shafts which are also much wider than in H. diffractus .

Figures

FIGURE 9. H. gillespiei. A, Habitus, dorsal view; B. Habitus, latero-dorsal view.