Minucella divaricata, Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008

Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, Minucella, a new leafhopper genus from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), Zootaxa 1854, pp. 33-44 : 41-42

Minucella divaricata sp. n.

( Figs 29–36 )

Description. Male. Body length (incl. fore wing) 5.5–5.8 mm. body yellow-brown with pale yellow or white spots on head and thorax as in Figs 29–31 . Scutellum with or without pair of small yellow-brown spots before transverse depression.

Male pygofer side with blunt excision on ventral margin basally, with long inner ridge near ventral margin and a very broad apical lobe-like process extending well beyond posterodorsal margin ( Fig. 32 ). Aedeagal shaft robust, cylindrical, with posterior margin sinuate in lateral view; with well-developed ventral process subbasally, bifurcate with each branch divided into short apical truncate process and elongate secondary process, the latter with dorsal margin serrate in lateral view ( Figs 34, 36 ).

Female. Unknown.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ɗ ( CAU), P. R. CHINA, Zhejiang Prov.: Hang-Zhou (E120.10°, N30.16°),

Ling-yin, 13-X-1974, Ji-Kun YANG. PARATYPES: 2ɗɗ ( CAU, BMNH), same data as holotype. Etymology. Named for the bifurcate dorsal process of the aedeagus. Remarks. This new species can be easily distinguished from M. leucomaculata by its unique shaped

aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURES 29 – 36. Minucella divaricata sp. n. 29, head and thorax, dorsal view; 30, face. 31, fore wing. 32, male genital capsule and segment X, lateral view; 33, valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; 34, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; 35, connective and style, dorsal view; 36, aedeagus, dorsal view.