Variolosa meni, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013

Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Two new erythroneurine leafhopper genera and first record of Thailus Mahmood from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), with description of four new species, Zootaxa 3686 (3), pp. 363-372 : 367

Variolosa meni sp. nov.

( Figs 1 f–i, 3)

Description. Ground color ( Figs 1 f–i) dark brown, face light brown, margins of frontoclypeus darker, eyes and basal triangles of mesonotum black.

Male 2S abdominal apodemes ( Fig. 3 c) extended to hind margin of fourth sternite.

Dorsal lobe ( Figs 3 d–f) with conspicuous tubercle at tip; upper pair of pygofer appendages extended from caudal margin of pygofer side, lower pair extended from base of pygofer side, curved dorsad, twisted apically, region between them membranous. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 3 i) with about 3–4 marginal macrosetae, short rigid microsetae at tip elongated. Style ( Figs 3 j, k) shorter than connective, blunt apically, preapical lobe indistinct. Connective ( Fig. 3 l) crescent-shaped in lateral view, approximately equal in size to aedeagal shaft. Aedeagal shaft ( Figs 3 l–n) curved dorsad, with pair of lateral processes subapically, directed dorsad.

Measurement. Male length 4.9–5.2mm.

Material examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Hainan Prov., Mt. Diaoluo, 900m, 10. iv. 2008, coll. Men Qiulei. Paratypes: 183, same data as holotype.

Deposition. Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.

Etymology. This new specific epithet is named after the collector Men Qiulei.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Variolosa meni sp. nov. a, forewing; b, hind wing; c, abdominal apodemes; d, genital capsule; e, pygofer side, lateral view; f, pygofer side, ventral view; g, dorsal view of junction between connective (c), aedeagal atrium (a), and dorsal pygofer lobes (pl); h, subgenital plate, style, connective and the 9 th sternite, dorsal view; i, subgenital plate, ventral view; j, style, dorsal view; k, style, lateral view; l, aedeagus and connective, lateral view; m, apex of aedeagal shaft, lateral view; n, aedeagus, caudal view.

FIGURE 1. a – e, Saccata insolita sp. nov.; f – i, Variolosa meni sp. nov.; j – m, Thailus rectilinea sp. nov.; n – u, Thailus versicolor sp. nov.; a, f, j, n, r, dorsal view; b, g, k, o, s, lateral view; c, h, l, p, t, anterior dorsum (crown, pronotum and mesonotum); d, i, m, q, u, face; e, abdomen, ventral view.