Rufitidia dissidens Lin & Zhang, 2022

Zou, Hongfen, Lin, Shuanghu, Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Rufitidia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini) from China, with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 5190 (3), pp. 419-424 : 424

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.3.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7138187

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scientific name

Rufitidia dissidens Lin & Zhang
status

sp. nov.

2. Rufitidia dissidens Lin & Zhang View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 1e–h View FIGURE 1 , 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Description. Vertex pale yellow, with two small brown spots, whitish towards eyes ( Figs 1e, g View FIGURE 1 ). Coronal suture distinct, broad dark brownish longitudinal streak in the coronal suture accompanied with two small roundish patches laterally. Eyes black. Head slightly narrower than greatest width of pronotum ( Figs 1e, g View FIGURE 1 ). Face pale yellow, with areas of white ( Fig. 1h View FIGURE 1 ). Frontoclypeus area and anteclypeus posterior region light brown. Pronotum anterior region pale yellow, with two small round brown spots; central part and posterior region from brownish yellow to brown, with irregular dark brown or black patterns ( Figs 1e, g View FIGURE 1 ). Forewing overall pale white, base and inner margin brownish gray ( Figs 1e, f View FIGURE 1 ).

Abdominal apodemes small and short ( Fig. 3b View FIGURE 3 ).

Pygofer lobe broad, with some microsetae scattered in the middle of lobe, ventro-cephalic angle and near caudal margin ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ); dorsal appendage u-shaped, pointed at both ends ( Figs 3a, c View FIGURE 3 ). Subgenital plate extended to hind margin of pygofer lobe, acutely narrowing at apex, with four macrosetae not far from terminal part, of which two are longer and two shorter ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Anal tube appendage tapering apically and nearly right-angle curved ( Fig. 3a View FIGURE 3 ). Style slim, apex sharp ( Figs 3e, f View FIGURE 3 ). Aedeagal shaft compressed, with one pair of subapical processes extended ventrad, and two pairs of subbasal processes extended dorsad, ventral edge of shaft irregularly dentate in lateral view ( Figs 3g, h View FIGURE 3 ). Connective V-shaped, manubrium short ( Fig. 3d View FIGURE 3 ).

Measurement. Length of male 3.3–3.4mm (including wing).

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Fujian Prov., Nanping , 19 July 2017, coll. Shuanghu Lin ; Paratypes: 2♂, same data as holotype .

Remarks. This new species is similar to R. trinotata Dworakowska, 1994 , but can be distinguished by the ushaped dorsal pygofer appendage, pointed at both ends; the ventral edge of the shaft irregularly dentated in lateral view; with one pair of subapical processes extended ventrad.

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin “dissidens” (different), referring to the dentate edge of the aedeagus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Rufitidia

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