Hepneriana menglunensis, Yang, Meixia, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2016

Yang, Meixia, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Hepneriana Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), first record from China, with descriptions of eleven new species, Zootaxa 4193 (2), pp. 266-284 : 273

Hepneriana menglunensis sp. nov.

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Description. Body yellowish, eyes black medially and yellowish marginally.

Abdominal apodemes ( Fig. 7 g) rectangular, extended to middle part of 5th sternite. Anal tube appendage ( Fig. 7 a) short.

Subgenital plate ( Fig. 7 b) truncate apically, outer margin slightly expanded. Style ( Fig. 7 c) with club-shaped process shorter than lamellar process, lamellar process relatively narrow, with distinct angle on inner edge, apical margin truncate, longitudinal ridge on ventral side indistinct. Aedeagal shaft ( Fig. 7 d–f) depressed, with flange on meso-dorsal margin, paired subapical process short and slim, distinctly curved laterad; preatrial process relatively slim, straight basally and slightly curved dorsad apically.

Measurement. male length 2.67 mm, female length 2.77 mm.

Material examined. Holotype: Ƌ, China, Yunnan Prov., Menglun , 570m, 9 xii 1999, coll. Qin Daozheng . Paratypes: 4Ƌ8♀, same date as holotype.

Remarks. The new species is extremely similar to H. joannae (Dworakowska) , but the lamellar process of the style is shorter with the ventral ridge indistinct, the aedeagal shaft is broader and the subapical processes are distinctly curved laterad.

Etymology. The new species is named after its type locality “Menglun”.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Hepneriana menglunensis sp. nov. a. anal tube appendage and pygofer dorsal appendage, lateral view; b. subgenital plate; c. style; d. aedeagus, caudal view; e. basal preatrial process of aedeagus, ventral view; f. aedeagus, lateral view; g. abdominal apodemes.