Coloana hainanensis Yang & Zhang

Yang, Meixia, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, Review of the leafhopper genus Coloana Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), Zootaxa 3802 (3), pp. 346-358 : 351

4. Coloana hainanensis Yang & Zhang sp. nov.

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Description. Anterior dorsum, frontoclypeal area and anteclypeus light brown, gena and lorum sordid pale, crescent patches sordid yellowish.

Male 2S abdominal apodemes ( Fig. 4 f) extended to midlength of 4th sternite.

Pygofer dorsal appendage ( Fig. 4 a) short and very thin, not reached hind margin of pygofer side, almost with even thickness, straightly directed caudad. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 4 b) slightly curved dorsad in lateral view, almost equal in length with style. Style ( Fig. 4 c) with apical part slightly bent laterad. Aedeagal shaft ( Fig. 4 e) almost equal in thickness from base, apical processes relatively long and broad; dorsal apodeme and preatrium approximately with equal length and width in lateral view.

Measurement. length male 4.37mm, female 4.58mm.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, China, Hainan Prov., Mt. Bawang, light trap, 25 v 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin. Paratypes: 4♀, same data as holotype.

Deposition. Entomological Museum, NWAFU, Yangling, China.

Remarks. The new species is similar to C. bifurcata Sohi & Mann , but can be distinguished by the moderately curved aedeagal shaft with the apical process curved downward at a right angle to the shaft, and the smaller dorsal apodeme.

Etymology. This new species is named for its type locality “Hainan”.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Coloana hainanensis Yang & Zhang sp. nov. a. pygofer side, lateral view; b. subgenital plate; c. style, dorsal view; d. connective; e. aedeagus, lateral view; f. abdominal apodemes.