Singapora excedens Yang & Zhang

Cao, Yanghui, Yang, Meixia & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, Review of the leafhopper genus Singapora Mahmood (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), Zootaxa 3774 (4), pp. 333-350 : 343

8. Singapora excedens Yang & Zhang sp. nov.

(Fig. 7)

Description. Body yellowish, apical patch on vertex invisible in male. Basal triangles of mesonotum indistinct. Male 2S abdominal apodemes (Fig. 7h) quite small, only extending to midlength of 3rd sternite. Anal tube appendage (Fig. 7b) tapering towards apex, apical hook short.

Pygofer side (Fig. 7a) short, hind margin truncate except oblique ventro-caudal margin, with several microsetae at dorso-caudal angle. Subgenital plate (Fig. 7a) with row of microsetae along outer margin from near base to midlength, several microsetae along caudal margin, with about 3 macrosetae medially. Style (Fig. 7c, d) inner protrusion shifted much distad, apex slightly curved laterad. Connective (Fig. 7c) with manubrium long and narrow. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 7e–g) short and relatively broad, without process, slightly concave apically in caudal view; preatrial process relatively slim, narrowing from broad base to midlength, remaining part even in thickness, curved dorsad, apex twisted.

Measurement. length male 3.13mm.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, China, Yunnan Prov., Mengla, Mt. Nangong, 1100m, 13 xii 1999, coll. Qin Daozheng.

Deposition. Entomological Museum, NWAFU, Yangling, China.

Remarks. The new species is similar to S. shivae Dworakowska , but has the pygofer dorsal appendage longer and tapering apically, the style with its inner protrusion shifted distad, the manubrium of the connective longer and narrower, and the aedeagal shaft shorter and smooth on both sides with the apex concave in caudal view.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ excedens ”, referring to the apex of preatrial process extended beyond the aedeagal shaft in lateral view.