Kanchanaburiassus maculatus, Dai, Wu, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2015

Dai, Wu, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, A review of the leafhopper tribe Hyalojassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae) with description of new taxa, Zootaxa 3911 (1), pp. 1-142 : 28

Kanchanaburiassus maculatus sp. nov.

( Figs 2 G, H, 18A–E)

Male 7.5 mm long, 2.9 mm wide across humeral angles. Head with numerous small brown spots on vertex and dorsal half of frontoclypeus, vertex with pair of large black spots near margin dorsad of ocelli, frontoclypeus with pair of black transverse maculae near dorsal margin of frontoclypeus. Pronotum with numerous black punctures. Mesonotum with basolateral triangles dark brown. Forewing with numerous small black spots on basal half and large saddle-shaped transcommisural black macula near midlength, apical half smoky hyaline. Venter including legs uniformly dull stramineous ( Fig. 2 G, H).

Male pygofer appendage broad basally, with small ventral setae, attenuate distally, extended posterad, apex curved slightly dorsad ( Fig. 18 A). Style apophysis much longer than pygofer, curved laterad, broadest near apical third ( Fig. 18 B). Aedeagus with acute compressed basoventral keel; dorsal process rounded and spatulate apically in ventral view ( Fig. 18 B), subparallel to and slightly longer than gonopore-bearing shaft; gonopore-bearing shaft slender, nearly straight and parallel-sided in lateral ( Fig. 18 E) and ventral views ( Fig. 18 D), distal spines less than ¼ length of shaft, curved dorsad, compressed, slender, with few irregular distal teeth ( Fig. 18 E).

Material examined. Holotype ♂, THAILAND: Kanchanaburi, Khu. Siran. NT/TourCtr., 14º38.136’N 98º59.837’E, 210m, Malaise trap, 11–18.vii.2008, Somboon & Chatchawan leg., T3432 [ QSBG].

Note. The species name refers to the large transcommisural macula on the forewing.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Dorsal and lateral habitus. A, B, Decliviassus bipunctatus sp. nov.; C, D, Decliviassus maculatus sp. nov.; E, F, Decliviassus nudus sp. nov.; G, H, Kanchanaburiassus maculatus sp. nov.

FIGURE 18. Kanchanaburiassus maculatus sp. nov. A. Genital capsule, lateral view; B. Aedeagus and style, ventral view; C. Pygofer, ventral view; D. Aedeagus, ventral view; E. Aedeagus and connective, lateral view.