Nabicerus baculatus Xue & Zhang

Xue, Qingquan & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, First record of genus Nabicerus Kwon (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 3765 (4), pp. 389-396 : 396

Nabicerus baculatus Xue & Zhang sp. nov.

(Figs, 2A–D, 4A–H)

Description: Length (including wings): males 5.4mm.

Face with a brown dorsal raindrop-shaped spot slightly nearer midline than eye; ocelli colorless and transparent; anteclypeus mostly black, with yellow brown margin; frontoclypeus with large brown oval spot on either side of median line ( Fig. 2 D). Pronotum hoary, with black brown dumbbell-like mark on either side of median line, and other stripe ( Fig. 2 C). Scutellum yellowish green with basal triangles and two basal submedial small triangles black ( Fig. 2 C).

Scutellum as long as vertex and pronotum together; others characters as in generic description ( Fig. 2 C).

Style with 1 thick subapical bristle, median portion extruded ventrally, apical portion distinctly curved ( Figs. 4 D, G). Dorsal apodeme of aedeagus not broadened in lateral view; apex of aedeagus dorsal apodeme small, with rounded lateral margin in ventral view, gonopore distad of subapical process ( Figs. 4 E, F).

Etymology. The specific name refers to the thick subapical bristle of the style.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hainan Prov., Bawangling Mountain, 28-v-1983, coll. Zhang Yalin.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the dorsal apodeme of the aedeagus apical small and rounded in ventral view.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Nabicerus baculatus sp. nov. A, habitus, dorsal view; B, habitus, lateral view; C, head and pronotum, dorsal view; D, face. Nabicerus fuscescens E, habitus, dorsal view; F, habitus, lateral view; G, head and pronotum, dorsal view; H, face.

FIGURE 4. Nabicerus baculatus sp. nov. A, male pygofer, anal tube and subgenital plate, lateral view; B, connective, lateral view; C, connective, ventral view; D, apex of style, lateral view; E, aedeagus, lateral view; F, aedeagus, ventral view; G, style, lateral view; H, style, dorsal view.