Haphsa jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005)

Wang, Xu, Yang, Mingsheng & Wei, Cong, 2015, A review of the cicada genus Haphsa Distant from China (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zootaxa 3957 (4), pp. 408-424 : 416-418

Haphsa jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005) , new record to China

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Meimuna jsguillotsi Boulard, 2005a: 121 . Haphsa jsguillotsi, Boulard, 2008: 32 .

Material examined. 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt. Nuoshan, Menghai County, Yunnan Province, 1200 m, 24.iv.1957, coll. Zang Lingchao; 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mena Village, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, 1050 m, 11.v.1958; 1 ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Shuangjiang County, Yunnan Province 888 m, light trap, 28.v.1980, coll. Liu Fen.

Measurements (in mm). (3♂♂): Body length: 21.0–22.8; fore wing length: 31.1–32.9; fore wing width: 9.1– 10.4; width of head including eyes: 7.6–8.2; pronotum width (including pronotal collar): 8.0–8.1; mesonotum width: 6.4–7.6.

Description of male. Head ( Figs. 7 A, B, 8A). Head testaceous, about 1.1 or 1.2X as wide as mesonotum and sparsely covered with golden pile, with a median upside-down trapezoid marking enclosing ocelli; a broad Vshaped folding line extends from medial supra-antennal plate to posterior ends of each eye and connects to the trapezoid marking. Eyes fuscous, ocelli dark red. Postclypeus fairly prominent, ochre with big black spots near frontoclypeal suture and apical part; transverse grooves black, and coloration reduced in middle grooves. Anteclypeus ochre along midline, black laterally. Rostrum light ochre, very long, with fuscous apex extending to half of abdominal sternite II.

Thorax ( Figs. 7 A, 8A). Pronotum slightly longer than head, generally light brown. Pronotum disk with following black markings: pair of central longitudinal fasciae, extending from anterior margin of pronotum to pronotal collar, curved outward and dilated both anteriorly and posteriorly; pair of obliquely longitudinal fasciae extending from median parts of paramedian fissures to lateral fissures; pair of fasciae along lateral fissure. Lateral margins of pronotum disk black. Pronotal collar generally olivaceous-tawny, with pair of black markings and two pairs of faint ochreous markings laterally; lateral margins of pronotal collar with pair of black markings and small teeth. Mesonotum fundamentally light brown, with following black markings: a medial black sagittal feature becoming a rhombus towards the cruciform elevation; a pair of broad, irregular fasciae along each parapsidal suture; pair of small black fasciae between parapsidal sutures and lateral sigilla; a huge fasciae along each lateral sigilla, enclosing a small tawny spot; pair of spindly spots on scutal depressions. Cruciform elevation olivaceoustawny with black markings on distal anterior arm. Golden pile in depressions and along lateral mesonotum.

Legs ( Fig. 7 B). Mostly tawny. Femora, tibiae fuscous basally and distally. Tarsi testaceous distally. Pretarsal claws fuscous. Fore femora distinctly swollen, with three spines fuscous.

Wings ( Fig. 7 A, B). Hyaline, fore wing with fuscous spots at bases of second and third apical cells. Basal membrane of fore wing tinged light brown. Hind wing jugum not tinged.

Abdomen ( Figs. 7 A, B, 8B). Fairly dark brown, slightly longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation. Lateral sides of tergites 2–4 and posterior margins of tergites 2–8 ochre. Tymbal covers wide and long, their lateral margins far from the opercula. Opercula ochre, spoon-shaped, ventrally very close but not adjoining and diverging from the posterior margin of the sternite II; pointed apices extending to two thirds of sternite V. Sternites mostly testaceous, with irregular fuscous markings. Epipleurites fuscous basally and ochre apically.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 8 C, D). Pygofer elliptical in ventral view, with long, golden pile. Basal lobes of pygofer broad and curved inward. Anal styles light brown and uncus fuscous. Median uncal lobes light brown and fused distally. Lateral uncal lobes fuscous, curved anteriorly, with acute apex distally.

Description of female. Body slightly larger than male; pronotal collar teeth more pronounced; abdomen conical, yellowish brown with ochre markings and black apically; ovipositor sheath relatively long, with black at the apex and extending beyond segment 9. Other characteristics similar to male ( Boulard, 2013). Distribution. China (Yunnan), Thailand.

Remarks. This is a small Haphsa species, and its body color is light brown, making it difficult to be detected in the field ( Boulard, 2013). It is similar to H. stellata Lee, 2009 in the small body size and the shape of the uncal lobes, but it can be distinguished from the latter by the absence of the X-shaped marking on the postclypeus and the longer male opercula.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Haphsa jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005) (male). A. habitus, dorsal view; B. habitus, ventral view.

FIGURE 8. Haphsa jsguillotsi (Boulard, 2005) (male). A. head and thorax, dorsal view; B. abdomen, ventral view; C. male pygofer, ventral view; D. male pygofer, lateral view.