Neurotettix truncatus Dai, Xing & Li

Dai, Renhuai, Xing, Jichun & Li, Zizhong, 2011, Taxonomic study of the genus Neurotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) with a description of a new species from China, ZooKeys 82, pp. 67-72 : 69-71

Neurotettix truncatus Dai, Xing & Li sp. n. Figs 719

Description.

Body yellow-brown, vertex with black spots along anterior margin, and with two irregular orange markings behind the spots, eyes dark-brown (Fig. 16). Face brown, transverse streaks and a longitudinal band yellow, anteclypeus yellow with apex dark-brown (Fig.18). Pronotum and scutellum yellowish-brown. Forewings yellowish-brown, with irregular fuscous markings, viens yellowish-white, apical part of forewings pale brown (Fig. 17). Female abdominal genital segment pale brown (Fig. 19).

External features as in generic description.

Male genitalia . Pygofer side short, with eleven stout setae along dorso-caudal margin, its ventro-posterior margin with a long appendage (Fig. 7). Valve triangle (Fig. 8). Subgenital plate short and broad, with many setae in lateral margin, distally truncate, with 2 to 3 irregular rows of setae from lateral margin to middle of subgenital plate (Fig. 9). Aedeagus symmetrical, base robust, aedeagal shaft slender without processes, gonopore apical (Figs 10, 11). Connective nearly X-shaped, its arms longer than stem (Fig. 12). Style slender, elongate, with apex of apophysis curved laterally (Fig. 13).

Female seventh sternum concaved medially on posterior margin. First valvula of ovipositor sculpture irregularly (Fig. 14), second valvula with teeth, tapered toward apex in lateral view (Fig. 15).

Measurement.

Length (including tegmen): ♂4.8-5.3mm, ♀ 4.9-5.3mm.

Type Material.

Holotype ♂, China: Guizhou Prov., Kuankuoshui, 16 August 2010, coll. Jichun Xing (GUGC). Paratypes: 1♂2♀♀, Guizhou Prov., Kuankuoshui, 12 August 2010, coll. Renhuai Dai (GUGC), 1♂1♀, China: Hubei Prov., Lichuan city, Pingba, 1 August 2010, coll. Junqiang Ni (GUGC).

Host.

Bamboo.

Remarks.

This species is similar to Neurotettix horishanus Matsumura, but can be distinguished from the latter by the symmetrical aedeagus and gonopore at apex, subgenital plate distally truncate and style apex curved.

Etymology.

The new species name is derived from the Latin words “truncatus”, indicating that the subgenital plate distally truncate.