Salka cambera, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2016

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2016, New additions to the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Hainan and Henan Provinces of China, Zootaxa 4092 (3), pp. 445-450 : 449

Salka cambera sp. nov. ( Figs 8–15 )

Description. Dorsum dark brown. Vertex with large central black patch ( Fig. 8 ). Eyes black ( Fig. 8 ). Pronotum dark brown, with single transverse oval impression medially ( Fig. 8 ). Scutellum also dark brown ( Fig. 8 ). Fore wing dark brown, with brochosome field, 3rd apical cell, 4th apical cell and adjacent area light brown ( Fig. 10 ).

Male abdominal apodemes not exceeding 3rd sternite ( Fig. 9 ).

Male genitalia: Pygofer lobe with dorsal appendage broad at base and narrow at apex ( Fig. 11 ). Subgenital plate with 3 macrosetae on outer surface and row of short setae along upper margin irregular at base and uniseriate distally ( Fig. 11 ). Style apex truncate, with 3 points in lateral view ( Fig. 12 ). Aedeagal shaft tubular, slender, curved dorsad in lateral view, dorsal apodeme with single fingerlike process extended dorsally, apex of shaft with pair of slender processes extended posterodorsad; preatrium small; gonopore apical on ventral surface ( Figs 13, 14 ). Connective U-shaped, without central lobe ( Fig. 15 ).

Specimen examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Henan Prov., Mt. Baiyun, 1300~ 1400 m, 17-VIII-2008, coll. Yuehua Song and Can Li. Paratype: 2♀♀, same data as holotype.

Measurement. Body length male 2.7 mm, females 2.8–3.0 (including wing).

Remarks. This species is close to Salka belanda Sohi & Mann (1994) , but differs in having the aedeagal shaft without paired subapical processes ( Figs 13, 14 ); the dorsal apodeme of aedeagus with a single fingerlike process ( Fig. 13 ); and the connective U-shaped, without central lobe ( Fig. 15 ).

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ cambera ”, referring to the C-shaped aedeagal shaft ( Fig. 13 ).

Figures

FIGURES 8 – 15. Salka cambera sp. nov.: 8, Head and thorax, dorsal view; 9, Abdominal apodemes; 10, Forewing; 11, Pygofer, lateral view; 12, Style, lateral view; 13, Aedeagus, lateral view; 14, Aedeagus, ventral view; 15, Connective.