Thagria triangula Fan & Li

Fan, Zhi-Hua, Li, Zi-Zhong & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2015, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Thagria Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from Guangxi, China, Zootaxa 3918 (4), pp. 451-491 : 466

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.4.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5261497

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scientific name

Thagria triangula Fan & Li
status

sp. nov.

Thagria triangula Fan & Li View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 224–248 View FIGURES 224 – 233 View FIGURES 234 – 248 )

Description. Body length of male 6.1–7.0 mm, female 8.0–8.5 mm.

Slender, medium-sized species ( Figs. 224 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 234 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). General color brown, suffused with yellow spots on crown, pronotum, mesonotum and forewing ( Figs. 224 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 234 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). Crown with midline yellow (male) or apical 1/3 yellow (female); ocelli and eyes brown ( Figs. 226 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 236 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). Face dark brown, with clypeus with one yellowish brown Ushaped band (male) or deep V-shaped band (female), and scattered with (female) or without (male) yellow spots ( Figs. 227 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 237 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ).

Head with anterior margin sharply angulate, crown wider than eye width, distally portion beyond eyes about 1/ 2 of midline, coronal suture evident, about 2/3 of entire median length, disk depressed ( Figs. 226 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 236 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). Face with clypeus long, lateral margins slightly convex; clypellus short, inflated longitudinally and medially, base broad, as wide as clypeus at juncture of clypeal suture, apical half constricted, apex nearly truncate ( Figs. 227 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 237 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). Crown, pronotum and mesonotum midline ratio about 1.3:1:1.5 (male) or 1.6:1:1.5 (female) ( Figs. 226 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 236 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ). Forewing long, apex rounded, appendix narrowed ( Figs. 224, 225 View FIGURES 224 – 233 , 234, 235 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe in lateral view tapered apically, caudodorsal margin with pair of long slender processes ( Fig. 228 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ). Ventral processes of segment X short, with small spine subapically ( Figs. 228, 229 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ). Subgenital plate long, segmented subbasally, with fine long setae distally ( Fig. 230 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ). Dorsal connective broadly Ushaped, stem absent, rami long, attached to base of ventral processes of segment X ( Fig. 229 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ). Aedeagus base broad, gradually narrowed toward apex, in lateral view slightly curved dorsad ( Figs. 231, 232 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ); paraphysis in dorsal view symmetrical, middle third broader than both ends, apex subtruncate with two very small spines laterally, apical half curved ventrally in lateral view, middle 2/3 with paired triangular processes laterally, edges serrated ( Figs. 231, 232 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ). Style slender, longer than paraphysis, biramose near middle, inner branch with small teeth, opposite glabrous ( Figs. 231, 233 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ).

Female genitalia. Ovipositor ( Figs. 238–248 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ) as in T. decussata Fan & Dai , sp. nov., except sternite VII apparently wider than length, ratio about 2:1, posterior margin convex with shallow concavity medially in ventral view ( Fig. 238 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ); valvifer I in lateral view, longer than width, posterodorsal margin without lobe ( Fig. 240 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ); valvifer II length-width ratio 3.6:1 ( Fig. 241 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ); valvulae II each with 14 or 16 teeth on apical fourth, and with one shared tooth on base of two separate blades ( Fig. 246 View FIGURES 234 – 248 ).

Type materal. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Shiwandashan, 4 May 2012, coll. Yang Nannan ( GUGC). Paratypes: 1♂ 1♀, CHINA: Zhejiang, Tianmushan, 20 July 2009, coll. Meng Zehong & Chen Yong ( GUGC).

Etymology. The new species name is derived from Lain word “ triangula ” meaning triangular, referring to the two triangular processes on the middle 2/3 of the paraphysis.

Remarks. This species strongly resembles T. projecta (Distant, 1908) in external morphology and male genitalia, but the paraphysis has a pair of processes on the middle 2/3 ( Fig. 231 View FIGURES 224 – 233 ), which are absent in T. projecta ( Fig. 221 View FIGURES 214 – 223 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Coelidiinae

Genus

Thagria

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