Luodianasca recurvata, Qin & Zhang, 2008

Qin, Dao-Zheng & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2008, Two new empoascine leafhopper genera and species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from southern China, with a key to Chinese genera of Empoascini, Zootaxa 1966 (1), pp. 62-68 : 64-66

Luodianasca recurvata n. sp.

( Figs. 1–17 )

Type materials. Holotype: ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Guizhou Prov., Luodian, 24 June 1979, Zizhong Li . Paratypes: 6♂ 14♀, same data as holotype ( NWAFU) .

Description. Size. male 4.1–4.2mm; female 4.4–4.5 mm.

Ground colour of body yellow. Vertex with T-shaped creamy streak centrally, coronal suture beige; ocelli surrounded by small creamy patches; eyes brown. Pronotum yellowish with anterior margin and arcuate area in anterior part marked with irregular creamy patches, centre of scutellum with a quadrate creamy patch anteriorly and a semicircular patch caudad of scutoscutellar sulcus. Abdomen orange.

Male pygofer short, rounded posteriorly and terminally bearing 9-11 rigid setae on each side of pygofer lobe. Anal tube process reaching apical 2/3 of height of pygofer, apex pointed. Subgenital plates ornamented with 20-22 marginal spine-like setae in two groups, 14-17 lateral macrosetae starting at one-third distance from base; extreme base of plate with fine microsetae in one row followed by 2 irregular rows in apical third. Parameres sinuate, bearing 8 teeth apically preceded by about 9 setae. Aedeagus recurved in profile, shaft as long as preatrium, gradually narrowing distally and curved, with spinose dorsal process subbasally on each side; gonopore large on ventral side.

Female. Body colour similar to male.

Etymology. The name is an adjective derived from the Latin word “recurvatus” referring to the recurved aedeagus.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality in Guizhou Province in southern China.

Figures

FIGURES 1–17. Luodianasca recurvata n. sp., 1, head and thorax, dorsal view; 2, face; 3, fore wing; 4, hind wing; 5, male terminalia, lateral view; 6, pygofer side and anal tube, lateral view; 7, pygofer side, dorsal view; 8, subgenital plate, paramere, connective and sternite 9, dorsal view; 9, anal tube appendage, lateral view; 10, apices of anal tube appendages, ventral view; 11, subgenital plate, dorsal view; 12, aedeagus, lateral view; 13, same, dorsal view; 14, paramere; 15, connective; 16, abdominal apodeme; 17, female terminalia.