Makilingia lobata, Dietrich & Zahniser, 2019

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 485

Makilingia lobata n. sp.

( Figs 1 T–U, 5K–O)

Description. Length of male 5.6 mm, female unknown. Coloration. Head with face pale stramineous except muscle scars near dorsum of frontoclypeus brown and vertical band between frontoclypeus and eye extended across lorum to ventral margin black; crown reddish orange laterally with five-lobed medial black marking, anterior and lateral lobes extended to anterolateral margin; pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, mesepisternum, mesepimeron and lateral part of metacoxa black; legs yellow, tibiae tinged with orange; forewing greenish ochraceous, pits in basal half black; abdomen mostly dark brown. Structure. Head weakly produced with crown anterior margin broadly parabolic; face with frontoclypeus and anteclypeus finely shagreen, clypeal suture obsolete, anteclypeus in profile very slightly angulate; distinct punctations restricted to genae. Forewing venation relatively well delimited, without supernumerary branches or crossveins, s crossvein absent.

Male genitalia. Tergite VIII with pair of lateral anteriorly directed angulate lobes. Pygofer appendage very slender, evenly curved dorsad, extended slightly beyond lobe. Subgenital plate with distal section unpigmented, curved strongly dorsad with apex curved laterad; dorsal callosity digitiform. Style without preapical lobe, apophysis unusually elongate and evenly curved. Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium as long as shaft, strongly curved, atrium with paired compressed flanges extended posterad to mid-width of shaft, shaft tapered with median anterior preapical tooth; in posterior view with preatrium rectangular, atrium broadened dorsad with two pairs of short processes, shaft tapered to narrowly rounded apex.

Female unknown.

Material examined. Holotype male, PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Bukidnon, Mt. Kitanglad summit trail, 8°9.91'N 124°55.96'E, 1773m, 3 April 2012, T.A. Catanach, TAC 2012044; 2 male paratypes, PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Bukidnon, Mt. Kitanglad summit trail 8°9.63'N, 124°55.90'E, 1885m, 1 April 2012, T.A. Catanach, TAC 2012035; 1 male, PHILIPPINES: Mindanao, Bukidnon, Mt. Kitanglad , Entavas, August 2011, A. Mohagan ( INHS).

Etymology. The species name refers to the lobed dark medial marking of the crown.

Notes. This species resembles M. davaoensis in coloration but differs in having the lateral lobes of the median black marking on the crown extended to the lateral margin, the distal unpigmented section of the male subgenital plate well developed and the aedeagus with two pairs of acute atrial processes.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Makilingia spp., dorsal and lateral habitus: A–B, Makilingia banahaoensis, male; C, M. banahaoensis, female; D– E, M. colorata lectotype male; F–G, M. costalis, holotype male; H–I, M. davaoensis, holotype male; J–K, M. flavifrons, male; L–M, M. frontalis, lectotype male; N–O, M. haightiana lectotype male; P–Q, M. intermedia (lectotype male of M. variabilis); R–S, M. lineata holotype female; T–U, M. lobata, holotype male; V–W, M. maculamima, holotype male; X–Y, M. maculata, lectotype male; Z–AA, M. nigra lectotype male; BB–CC, M. nigramima holotype male; DD–EE, M. pallida, lectotype male; FF, M. pallida (cotype of M. pallida benguetensis Baker), female; GG–HH, M. panayensis, holotype female; II–JJ, M. panayensis, male; Scale bars: 1 mm.