Agnesiella (Draberiella) latusa, Yan, Bin & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2016

Yan, Bin & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2016, Three new species and one new record of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska, 1970 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Typhlocybini) from China, Zootaxa 4184 (3), pp. 529-540 : 534-538

Agnesiella (Draberiella) latusa sp. nov.

( Figs 17–24 , 49–57 )

Descriptions. Male. Body mostly pale brown ( Fig. 17 ). Crown sordid yellow-brown with two black spots near eyes, eyes pale yellow to dark brown ( Figs 17, 19 ). Face sordid beige; seven patches on pronotum (one on anteromedian margin, two pairs anterolaterally, larger pair posterlaterally); scutum and scutellum yellowish, somewhat reddish on margin ( Fig. 19 ). Clavus and corium on fore wing with brown patches, brochosome field hyaline and with two black patches on both ends ( Figs 18 , 50 ). Hind wing colorless and subhyaline ( Fig. 51 ).

Length of crown distinctly less than interocular width, width of crown approximately equal to width of pronotum ( Figs 17, 19 ).

Female. Body general color golden yellowish; middle of pronotum, scutum and scutellum with red patches; clavus of fore wing with dark brownish; face with bright beige ( Figs 21–24 ).

Abdominal apodemes reaching middle of 6th abdominal sternite ( Fig. 53 ).

Male genital capsule in lateral view square, pygofer side with two bands of setae widely separated ( Fig. 49 ). Paramere slender, subapical with a smaller tooth, row of setae on out margin ( Fig. 55 ). Connective Y-shaped with stem as long as arms ( Fig. 52 ). Aedeagus much broader in posterior view, with large broad-based tooth and very much broad long ventral lamella in lateral view ( Figs 56, 57 ).

Material examined. Holotype, ♂, Xishan, Kunming , Yunnan Province, 14 October 2010, Coll. Maofa Yang . Paratypes, 11♂♂, 1♀, same data as holotype .

Etymology. The species name refers to the broad long ventral lamella of the aedeagus in lateral view.

Remarks. This species very similar morphologically to A. (Draberiella) jammuensis Sharma & Malhotra, 1981 but differs in the shape of the pygofer side and aedeagus: 1) pygofer appendage straighter; 2) proximal band of setae on pygofer farther from distal band, reduced to a group of stout setae and situated close to the cephaloventral angle of the pygofer; 3) aedeagus with very broad long ventral lamella in lateral view, terminated in large broad-based tooth, and in posterior view much broader.

Figures

FIGURES 17 – 32. Habits (dorsal view and lateral view) and face. 17 – 24, Agnesiella (Draberiella) latusa sp. nov., 17 – 20, Male, 21 – 24, Female; 25 – 28, Agnesiella (Draberiella) azra Dworakowska, 1994 rec. nov., 29 – 32, Agnesiella (s. str.) juglandis Chou & Ma, 1981. Scale: 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 49 – 57. Agnesiella (Draberiella) latusa sp. nov. 49, pygofer, lateral view. 50, fore wing. 51, hind wing. 52, connective, ventral view. 53, abdominal apodemes. 54, subgenital plate, ventral view. 55, paramere, ventral view. 56, aedeagus, posterior view. 57, aedeagus, lateral view.