Mimotettix rectatus, Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2010

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, Review of the Old World leafhopper genus Mimotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of new species, Zootaxa 2651, pp. 1-26 : 8

Mimotettix rectatus sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype 3, Zambia: Northwestern Prov., 11km SW Mwinilunga, Nkunyi Local Forest, S1148.809’ E2421.953, Hg-vapor light, 4 Nov. 2007, JN Zahniser, ZA-04 ( INHS).

Etymology. The species name, an adjective, refers to the straight aedeagal shaft.

Description. Body length (including tegmen):3 5.8mm.

Male genitalia: pygophore relatively short, dorsal margin sloping to broadly rounded posterior margin; macrosetae distributed dorsomedially each side of midline, dorsoposteriorly and ventroposteriorly. Subgenital plate moderately long. Connective with stem slightly shorter than arms. Aedeagal shaft relatively straight, digitate, with well developed atrial rim; apical process slender, with length 2/3 length of shaft.

Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the distribution of macrosetae on the pygophore and straight digitate aedeagal shaft.

Distribution. Zambia ( Fig.16 ).

Figures

FIGURE 11. Mimotettix rectatus sp. nov., male genitalia. (A) Pygophore, left lateral view. (B) Right style, dorsal view. (C) Connective. (D) Aedeagus, lateral view. (E) Aedeagus, dorsal view. (F) Aedeagus, ventral view. (G) Pygophore, dorsal view. (H) Valve, subgenital plates, style and connective, dorsal (left) and ventral (right) views.

FIGURE 16. Map showing the geographical distributions of Mimotettix species: M. alboguttulatus (●), M. brevicornis (), M. dietrichi (), M. facialis (˔), M. hieroglyphicus (О), M. lateralis (․), M. rectatus (*).