Paramritodus triangulus Xue & Zhang, 2020

Yu, Tingting, Zhu, Qiuyi, Li, Guoqing & Zhang, Bin, 2024, Review of Chinese species of genus Paramritodus Xue & Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5501 (4), pp. 583-592 : 587

Paramritodus triangulus Xue & Zhang

( Figs 5 , 11 , 44–46 )

Paramritodus triangulus Xue & Zhang, 2020: 1457 , figs 10, 19.

Diagnosis. Crown ( Figs 5 , 11 ) and face ( Fig. 11 ) pale brown. Frontclyeal and clypellus yellow brownish, genae and lora ( Fig. 11 ) pale brown. Pronotum ( Fig. 5 ), mesonotum and scutellum pale brown. Forewings ( Fig. 5 ) yellow brown except the base of claval area white.

Pygofer ( Fig. 44 ) obviously triangular, apex of pygofer hook-like; pygofer inner process not reaching caudal margin; anal tube surpassing pygofer lobe dorsal margin and enlarged terminally. Length of subgenital plates ( Fig. 44 ) approximate to pygofer. Aedeagal shaft ( Fig. 46 ) laterally slightly curved dorsally and tapered to apex, shaft with basal pair of slender processes on ventral surface; gonopore on ventral surface medially.

Material examined. China: 10 ♂, 13 ♀, Yunnan Prov., Mt. Gaoligongshan , 28.v. 2009, coll. Bin Zhang ( IMNU) .

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Remarks. This species is similar to P. introflexus , but can be distinguished from the latter by the shorter pygofer inner process and the aedeagal shaft longer and hardly concave subapically.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Paramritodus dorsal habitus, male. 1, P. introflexus; 2, P. pistacious; 3, P. podocarpus; 4, P. spatiosus; 5, P. triangulus; 6, P. concavicaudus.

FIGURES 7–12. Facial aspect of Paramritodus, male. 7, P. introflexus; 8, P. pistacious; 9, P. podocarpus; 10, P. spatiosus; 11, P. triangulus; 12, P. concavicaudus.

FIGURES 44–46. Paramritodus triangulus. 44, Genital capsule, lateral view; 45. Genital capsule, dorsal view; 46, Aedeagus, lateral view.