Raabeina bubengensis, Zhang, Yalin & Cao, Yanghui, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Cao, Yanghui, 2011, A taxonomic study of the Oriental leafhopper genus Raabeina Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), with descriptions of five new species and one new record from China, Zootaxa 2935, pp. 47-58 : 49-51

4. Raabeina bubengensis sp. nov.

( Figs. 3, 10, 17 , 47–54 )

Description. Head as wide as pronotum, vertex produced medially, coronal suture obvious ( Fig. 3 ). Face with frontoclypeus and anteclypeus narrow ( Fig. 17 ).

Vertex and pronotum ochre-yellow. Eyes grey to brown. Streak along coronal suture light orange. Patches on hind angles of pronotum and apex of scutellum, black. Scutum and scutellum pale yellow, with triangles yellow.

Forewing light ochre, semitransparent. Abdominal tergites orange, with transverse stripes on each tergite black. ( Figs. 3, 10 ).

Abdominal apodemes extended beyond fifth sternite ( Fig. 47 ).

Anal tube appendage extended far beyond pygofer hind margin ( Fig. 48 ). Upper basal region of pygofer side well sclerotized. Basal angle of pygofer side with three macrosetae and lower margin with five rigid setae ( Fig. 48 ). Subgenital plate with dark, prolonged distal part; with three to four macrosetae at transitional part; with four minute peg-like microsetae at the angle of caudal part; narrowed area short ( Figs. 49, 50 ). Paramere with apical part long, arcuated ( Fig. 51 ). Aedeagal shaft sharply curved dorsad, shorter than preatrium ( Fig. 53 ).

Measurement. Male length 3.4–3.7mm (including wing).

Material examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Jinghong, Bubeng, at light, 4 September 2010, coll. Zhang Meng; Paratypes: 53, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Jinghong, Bubeng, at light, 3 September 2010, coll. Zhang Meng; 43, same data as holotype.

Deposition. Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China.

Diagnosis. This species is extremely similar to R. fuscofasciata but can be distinguished from the latter by its larger size, much darker, longer apical part of subgenital plate, and by its strongly curved paramere and aedeagal shaft.

Etymology. This new species is named for its type locality “Bubeng”.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 21. 1 – 7, dorsal view; 8 – 14, lateral view; 15 – 21, face; 1, 8, 15, Raabeina hsui Chiang & Knight; 2, 9, 16, R. fuscofasciata Dworakowska; 3, 10, 17, R. bubengensis sp. nov.; 4, 11, 18, R. curtihamata sp. nov.; 5, 12, 19, R. biangulara sp. nov.; R.; 7, R. acutata.

FIGURES 47 – 54. Raabeina bubengensis sp. nov. 47, abdominal apodemes, dorsal view; 48, genital capsule, lateral view; 49, subgenital plate, ventral view; 50, angle of caudal part of subgenital plate; 51, paramere, lateral view; 52, connective, dorsal view; 53, aedeagus, lateral view; 54, aedeagus, caudo-ventral view.