Simaonukia longispinus Li & Li

Li, Yujian, Li, Zizhong & Yang, Maofa, 2017, Simaonukia, a new genus of the leafhopper tribe Evacanthini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Evacanthinae), with descriptions of a new species from China, ZooKeys 669, pp. 107-112 : 107-110

Simaonukia longispinus Li & Li sp. n. Figs 1-5, 6-15

Measurements.

body length (including forewing): ♂: 4.9 mm.

Vertex, pronotum and scutellum black (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5). Frontoclypeus black, anteclypeus light yellow (Figs 2, 3, 5). Forewing black, with nearly pale white and subtranslucent plaque in middle of costal area and around R1a, area along R1a red (Figs 1-3).

Male pygofer (Fig. 6) without ventral process, with a hyaline lateral stripe near middle area. End of style foot-like (Figs 9, 11). Subgenital plate ligulate, blunt at base, with a uniseriate row of many macrosetae on ventral surface and many moderately long fine setae laterally (Fig. 7). Aedeagal shaft dorso-ventrally compressed, tapering to digitate apex, the latter with a dorsal flange-like acute process (Figs 9, 14); with a pair of very long lateral subbasal processes (A in Figs 8-10), directed posteriorly then sharply turned dorsally near midlength with apex sinuate, with short sub-basal process (B in Figs 8-10).

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Yunnan: Puer, Simao, Caiyanghe, 24 August 2014, coll. Guo Meina.

Etymology.

The species name refers to the long lateral spine of the aedeagus.

Remarks.

This species can be distinguished by the dorsum and upper part of face blackish brown and area along R1a in the forewing red and in the male genitalia by the elongate lateral processes of the aedeagus bifurcate sub-basally.