Maiestas dinghuensis, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 34

Maiestas dinghuensis sp. nov.

( Fig. 30 ; Plate IV: B)

Length. Male: 2.9–3.0mm.

Stramineous. Vertex light yellow with brown marks, eye dark brown (Plate IV: B); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum and scutellum stramineous with six inconspicuous dark yellow longitudinal stripes (Plate IV: B). Leg marked with dark brown. Forewing veins sordid, border of cells fuscous (Plate IV: B).

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell closed or open basally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with truncated hind margin ( Fig. 30 A); subgenital plate very short, as long as wide, subtriangular, lateral margin convex ( Fig. 30 B); style with preapical lobe moderately long, apically acute, apophysis tapered to narrowly rounded apex, slightly laterally curved ( Fig. 30 C); connective similar in length to aedeagus, aedeagus with well developed basal heel, shaft with ventral margin strongly incurved basally ( Figs 30 D, 30E).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Guangdong Prov., Mt. Dinghushan, 18 July 1985, coll. Zhang Yalin ( NWAFU). Paratypes: China, Guangxi Prov.: 2ɗɗ, Mt. Yuanbaoshan, 12 August 2006, coll. Lu Lin ( NWAFU); Guangdong Prov.: 1ɗ, Guangzhou, Conghualiangkou, Feishuyan, 2 May 2005, coll. Li Zhigang ( GDEI).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by its truncate hind margin of the male pygofer ( Fig. 30 A), short and broad subgenital plate ( Fig. 30 B) and aedeagus with a well developed basal heel and shaft with ventral margin strongly incurved basally ( Fig. 30 E).

Etymology. This name is based on the type locality.

Figures

FIGURE 30. M. dinghuensis sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: style, dorsal view; D & E: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.