Flaviata furcata Xu, Lu & Qin, 2018

Xu, Ye, Lu, Sihan, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Qin, Daozheng, 2018, Descriptions of two new leafhopper species of the genus Flaviata Lu & Qin (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from Southern China, with a key to known species, Zootaxa 4457 (4), pp. 577-582 : 579-580

Flaviata furcata Xu, Lu & Qin , sp. n.

( Figs 1 – 18)

Type materials. Holotype. Male, China, Yunnan, Tengchong , 8 May 2012, light trap, coll. Yanghui Cao ( NWAFU) . Paratypes. 2 males, China, Yunnan, Mengla, Shangyong Town , 18 – 20 April 2017, light trap, coll. Ye Xu ( NWAFU) ; 1 male, same data ( INHS) .

Description. Length, male 5.5 – 5.8 mm.

Color. General body color orange to red. Crown with pair of irregular yellow spots on each side of coronal suture, coronal suture red ( Figs 1, 3). Eyes black ( Figs 1 – 4). Ocelli whitish ( Figs 1 – 4). Face yellow, with longitudinal dark yellow stripe medially, not reaching end of anteclypeus ( Fig. 4). Pronotum tan centrally, anterior margin and arcuate area behind eyes with irregular oblique yellowish stripes ( Figs 1, 3). Mesonotum anterocentrally with a pair of rectangles tan stripes and a yellow stripe between them ( Figs 1, 3). Fore- and hindwing subhyaline, veins brown ( Figs 1, 2, 8, 9). Abdomen black dorsally ( Fig. 1). Leg yellowish ( Figs 1–4).

Male basal abdominal apoedmes reaching segment VI ( Fig. 7). Male pygofer with 13–16 rigid microsetae along posterior margin, strongly sclerotized dorsally, terminal process extended beyond pygofer lobe, falcate ( Figs 5, 10,11), dorsal bridge slightly sclerotized, occupying nearly 1/3 total length of lobe, apically membranous ( Figs 6, 12). Subgenital plate broad at base, B-group setae (28–30) arranged in 1–2 rows occupying nearly half length of dorsal margin, C-group setae (18–19) arranged in two rows near base and then uniseriate towards apex of plate, Dgroup setae numerous, long, starting near the base and reaching apex of plate, arranged in 2–4 rows ( Figs 5, 10, 16). Paramere sinuate, branched at distal third, some specimens with additional small teeth near apex of larger branch ( Figs 5, 10, 17). Aedeagal shaft much longer than preatrium, broad at base, strongly narrowed and curved dorsad in apical half, gonopore apical ( Figs 5, 6, 13, 14). Connective nearly trapezoidal, slightly wider than long, anterior margin strongly emarginate, caudal margin notched medially ( Fig. 15). Anal tube membranous, basal appendage short, very slender, curved posteromesad ( Figs 5, 6, 10, 18).

Etymology: The specific epithet alludes to the shape of paramere.

Diagnosis. This new species is similar to F. variata , but differs from the latter in having the paremere branched distally (paramere unbranched in F. variata ).

Distribution. Southern China (Yunnan).