Typhlocyba serrata, Huang, Min & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2009

Huang, Min & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2009, Five new leafhopper species of the genus Typhlocyba Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 1972, pp. 44-52 : 49

Typhlocyba serrata sp. nov.

Figs 32–42 .

Description. Color pattern of dorsum as in Fig. 32 . Vertex with elliptical patch at most anterior margin extending to face and patches next to eyes, yellowish-orange, short streaks near to lateral margin brown; pronotum and scutellum with reddish-orange patches at anterior and posterior margin, yellowish-orange at central pronotum; forewing with basal patches yellowish-orange, with central patches yellowish-ocher, and with all patches bordered with brown; brochosome field with basal end yellowish-orange, distal end yellowishocher; apical part of forewing infuscate, apical veins yellowish. Dorsal part of abdomen, pygofer capsule and anal tube dark brown.

Abdominal apodemes reaching to end of 5th abdominal sternite.

Male genitalia: Pygofer side broad with several teeth at upper angle of posterior margin and below with some short and rigid microsetae ( Figs 35–36 ). Subgenital plate with distal 1/3 narrowed and twisted ventrolaterally ( Figs 37–38 ). Paramere with caudal part slim and tapering more than twice length of central part ( Fig. 39 ). Connective nearly M-shaped ( Fig. 37 ). Aedeagal shaft relatively straight with pair of parallel distal processes, serrated on outer margin and directed ventrobasally ( Figs 40–42 ).

Measurement: male, 2.57 mm (including wings).

Type material. Holotype: ɗ, CHINA. Yunnan Province: Sanchahe, 7.vi.1991, coll. Rungang Tian; ( NWAFU); paratypes, 16ɗ, same data as holotype ( NWAFU and including 2 in BMNH)

Notes. The new species belongs to the T. arborea group and resembles T. yacaba Dworakowska (1994) in colour pattern and male genitalia but can be distinguished by aedeagus with processes apically and directed ventrobasally and with serrations at outer margin.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word serratus, meaning jagged like a saw referring to the serrated processes of aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURES 32 – 42. Typhlocyba serrata sp. nov. 32, Habitus, dorsal view. 33, Face. 34, Abdominal apodemes. 35, Male pygofer, lateral view. 36, Posterior part of male pygofer, lateral view. 37, Paramere, connective, subgenital plate and sternite IX, dorsal view. 38, Apical part of subgenital plate. 39, Paramere. 40, Aedeagus, posterior view. 41, Apical part of aedeagal shaft, posterior view. 42, Aedeagus, lateral view.