Alishania fodingensis, Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2010

Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2010, The leafhopper genus Alishania Vilbaste in China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 2344, pp. 65-68 : 67-68

Alishania fodingensis sp. nov.

Figs. 7–19 .

Vertex yellowish brown with some black spots. Head with eyes slightly wider than pronotum, slightly longer than width between eyes (Figs.7,19A). Eyes black; ocelli pale yellow. Face yellowish brown, frontoclypeus with brown transverse stripes on both sides, distinctly longer than wide, anteclypeus parallel-sided ( Fig.8 ). Pronotum pale fulvous, with irregularly brown black stripes (Figs.7,19A). Scutellum pale fulvous, either side of lateral margin with irregularly black stripes, and in the medial margin with black maculae ( Fig.7 ). Forewings pale yellow, subhyaline, 3.4 times as long as wide, with two subapical cells (Figs.18,19). Hind wings with three apical cells, macropterous, with two anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell closed basally. Legs and venter pale yellowish orange to light brownish yellow. Hind femur apical setal formula 2+2+1.

External features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Pygofer side very elongate, narrowing to apex in lateral aspect, posterior margin with many macrosetae ( Fig.9 ). Valve large, nearly ellipsoidal, its posterior margin roundly produced ( Fig.10 ). Subgenital plate is a transverse plate with four small plates, fused basally, on both sides of small plates shorter and produced at apex( Fig.11 ). Aedeagus with paired shafts, forked with two gonopores, gonopores subapical on ventral surface ( Figs.12, 13, 14 ). Style elongate, apophysis long, tapered to acute apex, stylus medial with a long and forked appendage (Figs.15,16). Connective Y-shaped, its stem longer than arms. ( Fig.17 ).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): 3, 3.9mm.

Host. Weeds.

Type material. Holotype 3, China: Guizhou Province, Shiqian County, Mt. Foding, 15 August 1994, coll. Maofa Yang.

Remarks. This new species is similar to Alishania formosana ( Matsumura, 1914) in external appearance, but can be distinguished from the latter by the absencee of appendages on the aedeagal shafts ( Figs.12 , 13,14), the style with both medial and lateral processes forked ( Figs.15, 16 ), and the posterior margin of the valve roundly produced( Fig.10 ).

Etymology. This new species is named after its type locality “Foding”.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 18. Alishania formosana (Matsumura, 1914) 1. Aedeagus, ventral view; 2. Aedeagus, lateral view; 3. Style, ventral view; 4. Tip of the style, lateral view; 5. Valve, ventral view; 6. Subgenital plate, ventral view; (after Vilbaste, 1969). Alishania fodingensis sp. nov. 7. Head and thorax, 3 dorsal view; 8. Face; 9. Male pygofer side, lateral view; 10. Valve, ventral view; 11. Subgenital plate, ventral view; 12. Aedeagus, ventral view; 13. Aedeagus, lateral view; 14. Aedeagus, caudal view; 15. Style, ventral view; 16. Tip of the style, lateral view; 17. Connective; 18. Fore wing.