Fistulatus motuoensis Hassan & Xing sp. nov., 2024

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shah, Bismillah & Xing, Jichun, 2024, Key to species of the leafhopper genus Fistulatus Zhang, Zhang & Chen (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5481 (3), pp. 363-372 : 365-367

Fistulatus motuoensis Hassan & Xing sp. nov.

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Description. Body coloration light yellowish green ( Figs 1–4 ). Head including eyes as broader as pronotum, crown light yellowish green ( Fig. 1 ), face light green, without markings. Antennae long, 1.5 x width of the head or longer, scape and pedicel brownish yellow, flagellum dark brown ( Fig. 3 ). Pronotum light yellowish green, posterior margin brownish yellow, with some dark brown irroration on anterior margin. Scutellum brownish yellow, with a pair median of longitudinal light green bands present or absent in some individuals ( Fig. 4 ). Forewing light brownish, venation dark brown. Legs pale yellow, unmarked, except for darker bases of macrosetae ( Fig. 2 ).

Male genitalia ( Figs 5–13 ). Pygofer slightly wider than long, posteroventral margin of lobe with long, upward directed process, posterodorsally rounded with triangular apex, covered with numerous stout setae at posterolaterally ( Fig. 6 ). Valve triangular. Subgenital plate triangular with narrow and elongated apex ( Fig. 7 ). Connective very short, Y-shaped, stem subequal to arms in length ( Fig. 9 ). Style moderately long, broad at base, curved laterally with apex rostriform ( Fig. 8 ). Aedeagus long and straight, with a pair of slender, retrorse subapical lateral spines arising from convex lateral flanges; shaft broadened at base and subapically in dorsal view, with apex fish-shaped in anteroventral view ( Figs 10–13 ).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 6.9–7.0 mm, ♀ 7.5 mm.

Type material. Holotype ♂, CHINA: Xizang Autonomous Region, Motuo County, 08 August 2020, coll. Yongjin Sui ( GUGC); paratypes: 1♂, 1♀, same data as holotype.

Etymology. The specific epithet ‘ motuoensis ’ refers to the type locality of the new species.

Remarks. F. motuoensis Hassan & Xing sp. nov. is unique among its known congeners in having the ventral pygofer appendage relatively long and straight and by the aedeagal shaft with slender paired lateral prepical spines and the apex broadened and hammer-like in lateral view..

Figures

FIGURES 1–4. Fistulatus motuoensis Hassan & Xing sp. nov. Male habitus: 1. Dorsal view; 2. Lateral view; 3. Face; 4. Head and thorax, dorsal view.

FIGURES 5–13. Fistulatus motuoensis Hassan & Xing sp. nov. Male. 5. Genitalia (after maceration), lateral view; 6. Male pygofer, lateral view; 7. Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; 8. Style, lateral view; 9. Connective, dorsal view; 10.Aedeagus, dorsal view; 11. Aedeagus, ventral view; 12. Aedeagus, lateral view; 13. Aedeagus, anteroventral view focusing on the apex.