Chandrapona vespertilis, Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2019

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4604 (1), pp. 176-182 : 180-181

Chandrapona vespertilis sp. nov.

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Length (including tegmen). Male: 7.5 mm.

Colour and external characters as in generic description. Fore femur with AM1 near midheight, IC with series of 11 fine setae; fore tibia with dorsal setal arrangement of rows PD and AD 4+4.

Male genitalia with pygofer appendage very long, curved slightly ventrally and tapered to acute apex. Style lateral lobe distinct, apophysis short and robust, apex truncate with lateroapical angle slightly produced. Aedeagus with shaft short, laterally compressed, tapered distally to hook-like apex; lateral flange-like processes very large batwing-like; ventral processes long and stout, strongly curved dorsally, extending to beyond shaft apex.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah, Bukit Monkobo , base camp, stunted hill forest, 51°48’N, 116°58’E, 7.viii. 1987, 900 m, light trap, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs ( NMW).

Distribution. Malaysia (Sabah).

Etymology. The species takes its name from vespertilio the Latin name for a bat for the bat wing-like processes of the aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Chandrapona vespertilis. A–B. Male, dorsal and lateral view; C–D. head, dorsal and anterodorsal view; E. face; F. forewing; G–H. pygofer, lateral and dorsal view; I. apex of pygofer, lateral view; J. valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; K–M. aedeagus, lateral, ventral and dorsal view; N. style, ventral view.