Watanabella graminea Choe, 1981

Zhang, Lan & Xing, Jichun, 2020, Description of a new leafhopper species of the genus Watanabella (Hemiptera Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) from China, Zootaxa 4808 (3), pp. 539-546 : 541

Watanabella graminea Choe, 1981

Figs. 1–25.

Watanabella graminea Choe, 1981: 152 .

Paramacrosteles nigromaculatus Dai, Li & Chen, 2006: 592 syn. nov.

Chlorotettix nigromaculatus ( Dai, Li & Chen, 2006) Li, Dai & Xing, 2011: 55 .

Description. Color pattern of anterior dorsum and face as in Figs. 1–12. Vertex with pair of small black apical spots. Eyes brownish black. Face yellow, with or without dark streaks; anteclypeus and lorum yellowish-brown.

Other external features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer with process short and hook-like (Fig. 13). Subgenital plate about 2 times as long as wide at base, with 6 long macrosetae along lateral margin, apex extremely narrow, sclerotized (Fig. 15). Aedeagus in lateral aspect long, curved, narrowing towards apex, each apical process with lateral secondary process arising near base (Figs. 16, 17). Style with basal half wider and narrowing to the middle, apical half narrow, preapical lobe without setae (Fig. 19).

Female genitalia. Female pygofer with ventroposterior margin slightly incurved (Fig. 20). Female seventh sternite as broad as long at base, with depressed on the middle of posterior margin (Fig. 21). First valvula irregularly concatenate of ovipositor sculpture (Figs. 22, 23). Second valvulae more curved than the first, denticulate area confined to distal 1/2, denticles prominent, gradually becoming smaller distally, apex pointed (Figs. 24, 25).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 4.2–4.6 mm; ♀, 4.5–5.0 mm.

Material examined. CHINA: 1♂, (Holotype of Paramacrosteles nigromaculatus Dai, Li & Chen ), Guizhou Prov., Fanjingshan , 24 July 1986, coll. Zizhong Li ( GUGC) ; 3♂♂ 25♀♀, (Paratypes of Paramacrosteles nigromaculatus Dai, Li & Chen ), Guizhou Prov., Suiyang , 9 June 1989, coll. Zizhong Li ( GUGC) ; 5♂♂ 11♀♀, (Paratypes of Paramacrosteles nigromaculatus Dai, Li & Chen ), Guizhou Prov., Daozhen , 29 May 2004, coll. Qiongzhang Song, Bin Zhang and Pian Xu ( GUGC) ; 2♂♂ 3♀♀, Guizhou Prov., Leishan, 15 Novemder 1985, coll. Cai Gong ( GUGC) ; 9♂♂ 8♀♀, Guizhou Prov., Fanjingshan , 19 May 2013, coll. Weicheng, Yang and Yubo Zhang ( GUGC) ; 1♂ 3♀♀,

Gansu Prov., Gangu , 20 October 1980, coll. Zhitai Sun ( GUGC) ; 1♂, Yunnan Prov., Pianma , 17 August 2000, coll. Maofa Yan ( GUGC) ; 1♂, Sichuan Prov., Shuimogou , 15 August 2007, coll. Jichun Xing ( GUGC) ; 2♂♂ 1♀,

Sichuan Prov., Anzihe , 18 June 2016 , coll. Yangyang Liu ( GUGC); 2♂♂ , Jiangxi Prov., Wuyishan , 3 August 2008 , coll. Zehong Meng ( GUGC); 2♂♂ 2♀♀ , Henan Prov., Baiyunshan , 24 August 2008 , coll. Xiaohong Jiang ( GUGC); 1♂ 2♀♀ Shandong Prov., Taishan , 27 August 2011 , coll. Zhiming Chang ( GUGC); 5♂♂ 6♀♀ , Shanxi Prov., Lishan Natural Reserve, 29 July 2012, Jichun Xing ( GUGC) .

Distribution. Korea (Gangweon) and China (Guizhou, Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Henan, Shangdong, Shanxi).