Midoria curvidentata, Sun & Huang & Zhang, 2017

Sun, Jing, Huang, Weijian & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, Taxonomic studies of two genera, Elongationa gen. nov. and Midoria Kato (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), with two new species from China, Zootaxa 4294 (3), pp. 361-370 : 368

Midoria curvidentata sp. nov.

( Figs. 21–30 )

Description. Male. Length (incl. forewing) 6.9 mm; head width (incl. eyes) 2.2 mm; pronotum width 2.3 mm. Body yellowish brown, apical half of crown dark brown and anterior edge of pronotum black ( Fig. 21 ). Fore wing with some black spots on veins and yellowish brown band ( Fig. 21 ).

Male pygofer with long spinelike process ventroapically ( Fig. 27 ). Style parallel-sided through most of length, apex bent mesad and acute ( Fig. 29 ). Aedeagus compressed basally, curved dorsally and expanded gradually apically in lateral view, with pair of short processes dorsomedially and pair of long processes lateroapically ( Figs. 26, 29, 30 ); gonopore apical on dorsal surface ( Figs. 26, 29, 30 ).

Type material. Holotype: male, CHINA, Shaanxi Prov., Ningshan County, Huoditang Forest Farm, 5 June 2009, Xie Sha ( NWAFU) . Paratype: 1 male, CHINA, Shaanxi Prov., Ningshan County, Huoditang Forest Farm, 12 May 2014, Li Qinglong ( NWAFU) .

Etymology. The species epithet refers to the shape of the long processes on the subapical aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 30. Midoria curvidentata sp. nov. 21, habitus, dorsal view; 22, habitus, lateral view; 23, forewing; 24, face; 25, subgenital plate, ventral view; 26, magnified aedeagus, ventral view; 27, pygofer, lateral view; 28, male 8 th sternite, ventral view; 29, aedeagus, style and connective, lateral view; 30, aedeagus and connective, ventral view. Scale bars = 1.0 mm (Figs. 21 - 24); 0.4 mm (Figs. 25,27 - 30); 0.1 mm (Figs. 26)