Takagioma anguis Qin and Huang, 2020

Qin, Huimin, Kang, Juxia, Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, On the Oriental leafhopper genus Takagioma Thapa, 1989 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Dikraneurini) with descriptions of six new species, Zootaxa 4742 (2), pp. 299-310 : 302-303

Takagioma anguis Qin and Huang sp. nov.

( Figures 17–20 , 57–66 )

Measurement. Male, 2.25–2.79mm (including wing).

Description. Body yellowish with whitish stripe broad on vertex; eyes ashy. Face brown with apical margin ochraceous. Forewing sandy beige, hind wing with CuA not branched ( Figs 60, 61 ).

Abdominal apodeme weakly developed ( Fig. 59 ). Pygofer hook slim and curved outward ( Fig. 57 ). Subgenital plate subtriangular in ventral view with apex expanded and upward and with 4 macrosetae ( Figs 62, 63 ). Paramere sinuate and snake-like, basal part long and expanded, caudal part tapered. ( Figs 64, 66 ). Connective with central lobe underdeveloped and shorter than lateral feet. Aedeagal shaft short with pair of lateral slim horn-like processes apically; dorsoatrium with apex broad. ( Figs 64, 65 )

Examined type material. Holotype: Male, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna , 100.91°E, 22.01°N, 8 July 2017, coll. Weijian Huang.

Notes. This species is similar to Takagioma . gladius sp. nov in body coloration, but easily distinguished by the aedeagus, which has a pair of horn-like processes apically and by the short pygofer hook and sinuate paramere.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from Latin word “ anguis ”, which refers to the snake-like apex of the paramere.

Figures

FIGURES 1–24. Habitus (dorsal view and lateral view), crown, pronotum and scutellum (dorsal view), and face. 1–4, Takagioma pagoda sp. nov.; 5–8, Takagioma rostra sp. nov.; 9–12, Takagioma gladius sp. nov.; 13–16, Takagioma curvata sp. nov.; 17–20, Takagioma anguis sp. nov.; 21–24, Takagioma longicauda sp. nov

FIGURES 57–66. Takagioma anguis sp. nov. 57, pygofer side hook, dorsal view; 58, genital capsule, dorsal view; 59, abdominal apodemes; 60, forewing; 61, hind wing; 62, pygofer side and subgenital plate, lateral view; 63, subgenital plate, ventral view; 64, paramere, aedeagus and connective, dorsal view; 65, aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 66, paramere, lateral view.