Drabescoides complexa, Qu, Ling, Li, Hu & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2014

Qu, Ling, Li, Hu & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2014, Key to species of leafhopper genus Drabescoides Kwon & Lee (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), with description of a new species from Southern China, Zootaxa 3811 (3), pp. 347-358 : 348-349

Drabescoides complexa sp. nov.

(Figs. 1–2)

Body length. (including tegmina): ♂, 7.0– 7.3 mm.

Description. Body color. Head and thorax lemon yellow and other parts brown. Head marked with black spots and transverse bands.

Morphology. Forewing with cross vein between claval veins. Other external characteristics as described for genus.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer lobe (figs. 2c, 2f) with few macrosetae, two spinelike processes on caudal region of right lobe and three on left lobe. Valve (fig. 2g) semi-elliptical. Subgenital plate (fig. 2g) approximately triangular. Style (fig. 2h) broad basally, tapering to rounded apex. Connective (fig. 2d) greatly expended apically, stem slender, T-shaped. Aedeagal shaft (figs. 2a, 2b) broad and flat, with collar-shaped process at middle in dorsal view, pair of broader lamellae on both sides of midline occupying 0.89 of shaft, and pair of relatively narrower lamellae between broader lamellae and collar-shaped process; basal paired processes slender and sinuated in lateral view; gonopore subapical on dorsal surface.

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, CHINA: Zhejiang Province, Dapanshan National Natural Reserve, 03–VII–2013, collected by Li Bin and Yan Bin; Paratypes, 1 ♂, CHINA: Fujian Province, Wuyishan National Natural Reserve, 25–VI–2013, collected by Li Bin and Yan Bin.

Distribution. China (Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces) ( Fig. 7 ).

Remarks. This species is similar to Drabescoides undomarginata but can be distinguished by the slender stem of the connective (fig. d); the aedeagal shaft (figs. a, b) with more than one pair of lamellae, the smaller collarshaped process, and the slender basal processes.

Etymology. The new species name is derived from the Latin word “ complexus ”, and refers to the complex aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Map showing the geographic distribution of Drabescoides Kwon & Lee. ■ — D. complexa sp. nov.; ▲ — D. longiarmus Li & Li, 2010; ● — D. umbonata Shang & Zhang, 2003; □ — D. undomarginata Cen & Cai, 2002; ★ — D. nuchalis (Jacobi, 1943).