Aconurella sibirica (Lethierry)

Duan, Yani & Zhang, Yalin, 2012, A taxonomic review of the grassland leafhopper genus Aconurella Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from China with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 3397, pp. 28-44 : 40-43

Aconurella sibirica (Lethierry) n. rec.

( Figure 7 , Plate VI)

Aconura sibirica Lethierry, 1888: 252 . Aconura ogloblini Kusnezov, 1928: 48 .

Length. Male: 3.5–3.6mm; female: 3.7–3.9mm.

Greenish-dark brown, often with dark brown pattern, male may be nearly entirely black (Plate VI: A, B & E–G). Vertex with dark spot not fused anteriorly with darkening of face, or vertex with cruciate pattern or whole vertex blackened (Plate VI: H–J). Frontoclypeus often with transverse stripes (Plate VI: K). Forewing usually brachypterous, brachypterous specimens more or less rounded at apex, usually reaching abdominal tergites V–VIII (Plate VI: A, B & E–G).

Male genitalia. The darkly sclerotized part of pygofer side on posteroventral margin more than half its length, with small spines, dorsoapical margin with many spinules ( Fig. 7 A); connective with arms close together distally ( Fig. 7 E); aedeagus shaft gently curved dorsally ( Fig. 7 D).

Female. Sternite VII well-produced in middle (Plate VI: D).

Material examined. China: Tianjin City: 23, 4Ƥ, Ji County, Baxian Mountain, 17.viii.2006 ( NWAFU); Hebei Prov.: 23, 2Ƥ, Wei Chang County, Jiangjiadian, 11/ 12.viii.2006 ( NWAFU); Anhui Prov.: 13, 1Ƥ, Huoshan Mountain, vii.2011 ( NWAFU); Shanxi Prov.: 143, 20Ƥ, Jiaocheng County, Panquangou, 26/ 27.vii.2006 ( NWAFU); Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: 15Ƥ, 13, Mt. Helan, 08.vii.2010, coll. Zhang Xinmin ( NWAFU); 63, 24Ƥ, Chicheng County, Dahaituo, 08.viii.2006 ( NWAFU); Liaoning Prov.: 13, Yantai City, Kunyu Mountain, 11.vii.2001, coll. Qin Daozheng, at light ( NWAFU); Shaanxi Prov.: 13, Chenggu County, 650m, 06.viii.2006, coll. Yang Meixia ( NWAFU); Shandong Prov.: 1Ƥ, Yantai City, Kunyu Mountain, 11.vii.2001, coll. Qin Daozheng, at light ( NWAFU). (All collected by Duan Yani except where indicated).

Distribution. China ( Tianjin, Hebei, Anhui, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Shaanxi); Mongolia; Russia.

PLATE VI. Aconurella sibirica (Lethierry) . A, B & E–G: habitus, dorsal view; C: habitus, lateral view; D: the end of female abdomen, ventral view; H–J: head and thorax, dorsal view; K: face.

PLATE VII. Aconurella prolixa (Matsumura) . A: first valvula; B: detail of first valvula (apex); C: second valvula; D: detail of second valvula.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Aconurella sibirica (Lethierry). A: male pygofer side, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: style, dorsal view; D: aedeagus, lateral view; E: connective, dorsal view.