Nirvanguina pectena Lu & Zhang

Lu, Lin, Zhang, Yalin & Webb, M. D., 2014, Nirvanguina Zhang & Webb (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), a new record for China, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 3779 (5), pp. 597-600 : 599

Nirvanguina pectena Lu & Zhang , sp. nov.

(Figs. 1A–P)

Description. Length (including forewing). Male: 4.9 mm.

Yellow marked with orange on vertex and adjacent area of pronotum and as lateral symmetrical patches on pronotum. Head narrower than pronotum. Crown concave in middle. Face with clypellus slightly concave in lateral view; genal margin below eyes strongly incurved.

Male abdominal apodemes as in figures 1M–O.

Male pygofer lobes with dorsal process apically pectinate with five teeth. Subgenital plate with macrosetae apically truncate. Aedeagus with shaft moderately long, in lateral view digitate with narrowly rounded apex, with pair of dentate dorsolateral flanges subapically; in ventral view, shaft narrowed near midlength with apex truncate, gonopore subapical on ventral surface; basal apodeme robust, narrow in lateral view, broadly bilobed in ventral view.

Material examined. Holotype: male, China, Guizhou Province, Fanjingshan Mountain, 5.viii.2012, on Azalea, Coll. Wang Yang ( NWAFU).

Etymology. The specific epithet “ pectena ” refers to the shape of the comblike pygofer dorsal processes.

Remarks. This species is similar to N. placida but can be distinguished in the male genitalia as indicated in the key.