Mukaria lii, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2011

Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2011, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhopper genus Mukaria Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mukariinae) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 2882, pp. 27-34 : 30-33

Mukaria lii sp. nov.

( Figs 1–14 )

Description. Body length including forewing 4.10–4.30 mm (male), 4.35 mm (female).

Coloration. General coloration ( Figs 10–14 ) shining blackish brown to black. Eyes reddish brown to blackish brown. Frontoclypeus ( Fig. 14 ) centrally with yellowish brown rounded marking, antennae yellowish brown. Fore and middle legs ( Fig. 12 ) yellowish white, hind legs dark brown except yellowish white trochanters, base of femora and tibiae, tarsi. Forewing ( Figs 10–12 ) with subhyaline marking at apical area. Female coloration similar to male, except hind legs yellowish white.

Head and thorax. Crown of head with length in median line shorter than width between eyes (0.59:1.00); coronal suture obscure; ocelli with distance in front of inner margin of eyes about three times as long as its diameter. Frontoclypeus in profile with apex relatively acute, ventral margin convex at apex and concave at base. Pronotum ( Fig. 14 ) longer than crown in median line (1.53:1); mesonotum and scetullum with basal width greater than median length (1.27:1). Forewing slightly wider at apex than at base, about 3.03 times longer than broad at widest part.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer ( Fig. 5 ) covered with long macrosetae from middle to apex; dorso-posterior margin medially with finger-like process. valve ( Fig. 6 ) broad triangular, apex rounded, basal width greater than median length (2.04:1); subgenital plate ( Fig. 6 ) broad at base, tapering apically, apex membranous; aedeagus in dorsal view ( Fig. 7 ), broad at base, shafts divergent, in apical half produced, abruptly narrowed and recurved, knifelike, with short subapical process, in caudal view ( Fig. 8 ), apex of aedeagus produced ventrad and recurved, two short processes directed ventrad; style ( Fig. 7 ) broad at base, tapering apically, apex blunt.

Female genitalia. Female sternite VII ( Fig. 9 ) with posterior margin strongly concave, with short, median bilobed projection.

Type material. Holotype: 3, China: Dashahe Provincial Natural Reserve, Daozhen, Guizhou Province, 18 Aug. 2004, X.-S. Chen; paratypes: 7 3, 1 Ƥ, same data as hologype; 1 Ƥ, China: Sanchahe, Xishui, Guizhou Province, 26 Sep. 2000, X.-S. Chen.

Host plant. Qiongzhuea communis Hsueh & Yi.

Distibution. China (Guizhou) ( Fig. 24 ).

Etymology. The new species is named in honour of Prof. Z. Z. Li, renowned leafhopper taxonomist from China.

Remarks. This species resembles M. nigra Kuoh & Kuoh, 1983 , in appearance, but can be distinguished by: larger body size, 4.10–4.30 mm in male, 4.35 mm in female (male 3.6 mm and female 3.9 mm long in M. nigra ); aedeagus with apical half V-shaped, outer margin of each shaft with short process, directed ventrad (aedeagus with apical half U-shaped, with small stick-like process at middle, each shaft with basal finger-like process in M. nigra ).

Figures

FIGURE 24. Distribution of Mukaria species. M. albinotata (); M. bambusana (); M. confersa (); M. flavida (); M. lii sp. nov. (); M. maculata (); M. nigra (); M. pallipes (); M. penthimioides (); M. splendida (); M. testacea (); M. variabilis (); M. zonata ().

FIGURES 1 – 9. Mukaria lii. (1) Head and thorax, dorsal view; (2) Head and thorax, lateral view; (3) Forewing; (4) Hindwing; (5) male pygofer, dorsal view; (6) Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view; (7) aedeagus, connective and styles, dorsal view; (8) aedeagus, caudal view; (9) female sternite VII. Scale bars: = 2 mm (Figs 1, 2, 8); 1 mm (Figs 3, 4); 0.5 mm (Figs 5 – 7, 9).

FIGURES 10 – 14. Mukaria lii. (10) Adult 3, dorsal view; (11) Adult Ƥ, dorsal view; (12) Adult 3, lateral view; (13) Head and thorax, dorsal view; (14) Face.