Makilingia xanthopicta, 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 : 498-500

Makilingia xanthopicta n. sp.

( Figs 2 AA–BB, 3A, 7JJ–NN)

Description. Length of male 5.2–5.4 mm. Coloration. Black overall; crown with two pairs of orange marginal spots, forewing clavus with large bright yellow transcommissural marking constricted near middle, corium black with small semicircular clear area near apex of costal margin; legs yellow. Structure. Head moderately produced with crown anterior margin parabolic; face with frontoclypeus and anteclypeus shagreen, distinct pits restricted to gena, clypeal suture weakly delimited. Forewing venation poorly delimited, without supernumerary branches or crossveins.

Male genitalia. Pygofer appendage widened from base to distal third, then tapered and curved slightly dorsad, extended well beyond lobe. Subgenital plate relatively long, curved evenly dorsad, distal section darkly pigmented, dorsal callosity short and broad. Style with preapical lobe short and acute, preapical heel rounded and relatively broad. Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium longer than shaft, broad and strongly curved; shaft short, broad, tubular, nearly straight, apex with distinct anterior arcuate rim; atrial process bowl-shaped; in posterior view with preatrium weakly constricted, atrial processes curved dorsad.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The species name combines " xanthos " (yellow) with " picta " (painted) referring to the bright yellow markings on the forewings.

Material examined. Holotype male labeled " Philippines: Prov Calamarines / Norte. Mount Labo, Basecamp 14°04.546'N 122°46.146'E 237m / 20.v.2016 Pan Traps / Siler Brachymeles Expedition 2'' ( PNM); 3 male paratypes, same data ( OMNH, INHS).

Notes. This species closely resembles M. intermedia and M. maculata in coloration but differs in the structure of the aedeagus, which has the lateral processes of the atrium bowl-shaped and the apex of the shaft with an arcuate anterior marginal rim.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Makilingia spp., dorsal and lateral habitus: A–B, M. paranigra, holotype male; C–D, M. pruinosa, male; E–F, M. siamensis, holotype male; G–H, M. sibuyanensis lectotype male. I–J, M. similima, lectotype male; K–L, M. speciosa, paralectotype female; M–N, M. surigaoensis, lectotype male; O–P, M. suturalis, lectotype male; Q–R, M. tenebrifrons, holotype male. S–T, M. tettigonoides, lectotype male. U–V, M. uncinata, holotype male; W–X, M. viraktamathi, holotype male; Y–Z, M. woodworthi, holotype male. AA–BB, M. xanthopicta, holotype male.