Goniagnathus (Tropicognathus) punctifer (Walker)

Duan, Yani, Zhang, Yalin & Webb, M. D., 2009, Review of the leafhopper tribe Goniagnathini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, Zootaxa 2314 (1), pp. 50-62 : 53-54

Goniagnathus (Tropicognathus) punctifer (Walker)

( Figs 2A–E , 7E, 7K , 8D )

Bythoscopus punctifer Walker, 1858: 104 .

Goniagnathus elongatus Lethierry, 1892: 209 . Goniagnathus spurcatus Melichar, 1903: 181 .

Goniagnathus punctifer, Distant, 1908: 311 ; Zhang, 1990: 91; Dash & Viraktamath, 2001: 71, Figs 38–44. Goniagnathus (Tropicognathus) punctifer, Viraktamath & Gnaneswaran, 2009: 52 .

Length. Male: 5.1–6.4mm; Female: 5.6–6.4mm.

Ochraceous, with irregular reddish-brown makings on vertex, pronotum and scutellum. Anterior margin of vertex yellow with faint brownish spots. Eyes black with reddish-brown margin and stripes. Face with interrupted black fascia. Forewing ochraceous.

Vertex 5x as wide as median length. Forewing with inner anteapical cell closed basally by cross vein.

Male genitalia. Pygophore caudally narrowed with an obtusely rounded caudal lobe having a few setae, dorsocaudal appendage slender, black, not reaching caudo-ventral angle. Fused subgenital plates and valve twice as broad as median length, narrowed caudally with truncate apex. Style with bilobed apophysis, outer lobe slightly longer than inner one. Aedeagal shaft slightly curved, with an apical pair of laterally directed processes, a median pair of slightly asymmetrically curved processes on cephalic margin at mid-length; gonopore large, apical; dorsal apodeme prominent.

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite 3x as wide as long, hind margin broadly produced with a median notch.

Material examined. China, Jiangxi Prov.: 26♂, 16♀♀, Ruijin, Bayingxiang, 280m, 15–16. viii. 2004, coll. Weicong & Yang Meixia ( NWAFU) ; Zhejiang Prov.: 1♂, Jiande Lingxi, 24. ix. 1982, coll. Xia Fan ( SHEM) ; Guizhou Prov.: 1♂, 19. vi. 1958 ( SHEM) ; Hunan Prov.: 1♀, Baisha, 23. iii. 1959, coll. Jin Gentao ( SHEM) ; Fujian Prov.: 19♂, 14♀♀, various localities and dates ( NWAFU) ; Yunnan Prov.: 17♂, 7♀♀, various localities and dates ( NWAFU) ; South China: 1♂, Kwangsi, Taipingfu, Sung-Shan District , 5–6. viii. 1934, Ernast,P. Tinknam ( ZSU) ; Guangxi Autonomous Region : 3♂, 4♀♀, various localities and dates; Canton: 7♂, 5♀♀, various localities and dates ( ZSU) ; Hainan Is. : 1♂, Hoi-how, K’iung District, 1932, William E Hoffmann ( ZSU) ; Guangdong Prov.: 1♂, Shenzhen, 20. vii. 1986, coll. Zhang Yalin ( NWAFU) ;

Guangdong Prov.: 1♂, Shenzhen, 4. vii. 1987, coll. Wu Xinshe ; 8♂, 11♀♀, 2006 ( GDEI) ; Hainan Prov.: 23♂, 11♀♀, various localities and dates ( NWAFU) .

Distribution. Palaearctic and Oriental Region.

Remarks. The identity of this species is taken from Dash & Viraktamath (2001).

Figures

FIGURE 2. Goniagnathus (Tropicognathus) punctifer (Walker). A: Male pygophore, lateral view; B: Fused subgenital plates and valve, ventral view; C: Style, dorsal view; D: Aedeagus, dorsal view; E: Aedeagus, lateral view.

FIGURE 7. Goniagnathus and Tamaricades species. A–F, habitus. A: G. brevis; B: G. cornutus Duan, sp. n.; C: T. tamaricus; D: G. nervosus; E: G. punctifer; F: G. rugulosus. G–L, face. G: G. brevis; H: G. cornutus Duan, sp. n.; I: T. tamaricus; J: G. nervosus; K: G. punctifer; L: G. rugulosus.

FIGURE 8. Forewings of Goniagnathus and Tamaricades species. A: G. brevis; B: T. tamaricus; C: G. nervosus; D: G. punctifer.