Reticulum lanceolatum, Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2008

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, Revision of the leafhopper genus Reticulum (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 1781, pp. 47-54 : 53

Reticulum lanceolatum sp. nov.

(Figs. 18–24)

Size. Length of body to apex of forewings: Male 4.3–4.6 mm, female 4.5–4.8 mm.

Description. Color and external features as in Reticulum trispinosum sp. nov.

Male pygofer longer than broad in lateral view, with bifurcate process on inner surface arising near dorsal margin (Fig. 18). Subgenital plate elongate, triangular, longer than valve (Figs. 18, 22). Aedeagus with basal apodeme well developed, shaft elongate and straight, cylindrical, with a basal pair of elongate, lanceolate, lateral processes, reaching 0.75 length of shaft (Figs. 20, 21).

Type Material. Holotype %, China: Yunnan Prov., Zhongdian, 3150m, 15 July 2001, coll. Sunqiang; Paratypes, 8%, 31Ψ, data as for holotype.

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Diagnosis. This species externally resembles Reticulum transvittatum Dai, Li et Chen , but differs in having the aedeagal shaft straight with rounded apex and basal processes of the shaft straight, extending to 0.75 length of shaft. The new species also resembles R. trispinosum sp. nov. in the shape of the aedeagus, but differs from the latter in having the pygofer processes bifurcate and the basal processes of the aedeagal shaft straight.

Etymology. The name of the new species refers to the lanceolate processes at the base of the aedeagal shaft.