Cyrta fujianensis, Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008

Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 1793, pp. 1-27 : 8-9

Cyrta fujianensis sp. n. ( Fig. 10 )

Description. Body length: ɗ 6.5mm; Ψ 7.1–7.5mm. Body colour generally pale yellow; face face with distal area of frontoclypeus, anteclypeus, lora and distal area of gena dark brown; anteclypeus with pair of stout setae apically ( Fig. 10 C). Pronotum with disc darker; scutellum with a dark upside-down Y-shaped mark and long yellowish white tufts of hairlike setae ( Fig. 10 D).

Male pygofer with dorsal margin somewhat straight; a long inner process curved dorsally, tapering to apex ( Fig. 10 G). Subgenital plate not extending beyond to apex of pygofer side; fused with valve basally, apex rounded in ventral ventral view ( Figs 10 F, G). Aedeagal shaft broad basally and evenly tapered to rounded apex in lateral view ( Fig. 10 B), narrow in ventral view ( Fig. 10 E).

Type material. Holotype: ɗ ( NKU), CHINA: Fujian Prov., Nanjing Co., 4-V-1965, Wang Liangchen. Paratypes, CHINA, Fujian Prov., Dehua Co.: 1Ψ ( SHEM), 26-IV-1962, Jin Gentao; 1Ψ ( CAU), 6-XI-1974.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the type locality.

Remarks. This species is similar to C. striolata , C. flosifronta , C. incurvata and C. coalita in having an inner pygofer process. It can be distinguished from these by: 1) subgenital plate roundly convex apically and fused to valve basally; 2) aedeagal shaft broad basally and evenly tapered to rounded apex in lateral view, narrow in ventral view.

Figures

FIGURE 10. Cyrta fujianensis sp. n. A, style and connective, dorsal view; B, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; C, face; D, head and thorax, dorsal view; E, aedeagus, ventral view; F, vale and subgenital plates, ventral view; G, male genital capsule, lateral view.