Scaphoideus maculatus Li, 1990

Wen, Chao, Chen, Fangying & Dai, Wu, 2017, A review of the leafhopper genus Scaphoideus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Guangxi of China, with description of one new species, Zootaxa 4247 (4), pp. 351-377 : 363

Scaphoideus maculatus Li, 1990

( Figs. 2 A, F, K, 9A–G)

Scaphoideus maculatus Li, 1990: 98 ; Li et al., 2011: 228.

Body length (including tegmen): Male 5.9–6.6mm; Female 6.5mm.

Head including eyes slightly narrower than pronotum. Crown longer medially than next to eyes but shorter than width between eyes; anterior margin acutely rounded in dorsal view; disc somewhat flat. Transition from vertex to frontoclypeus rounded. Eyes fairly large. Ocelli situated on anterior margin of crown and separate from eye by distance equal to ocellar diameter. Frontoclypeus narrow, longer than width between eyes. Clypellus slightly expanded apically. Pronotum with anterior margin roundly produced and posterior margin slightly concave. Mesonotum and scutellum nearly 1½ times length of head, suture curved. Forewings semi-transparent with veins dark-brown and most cells infuscated; brown maculae present on commisural margin at apex of each anal vein, at apex of clavus and on costal margin at apex of each transverse vein; forewing appendix wide; 4 apical cells present; outer subapical cell acute apically, two reflexed cross veins between outer anteapical cell and costal margin, with basal reflexed vein basad of outer anteapical cell.

Yellow to fuscous with well expressed brown or black pattern. Vertex with transverse arcuate brownish band between eyes slightly expanded anteriorly, fused with a brown spot each side of midline on fore margin, a brown spots each side of midline near posterior margin brownish. Face with frontoclypeus yellow, with brown arched lines. Pronotum brownish-yellow with several blackish-brown merged spots on each side along anterior margin. Scutellum pale yellow, with basal triangles brownish. Forewing semi-transparent, with dark brown veins and darkening in most cells.

Male genitalia. Pygofer shorter than broad in lateral view, caudal margin with process and many long macrosetae apically and scattered macrosetae on apical half. Subgenital plate longer than pygofer, slightly narrowed to apex, with lateral triangular subapical process. Style short, broad basally, lateral angle triangular, apical processes short and curved laterally. Connective with stem 2 times length of arms, connective processes curved dorsally and tapered apically. Aedeagus small, with well developed dorsal apodeme, shaft compressed, with pair of dorsoapical spines, gonopore apical.

Material examined. 1♂, Guangxi, Huaping , 5. viii. 2006, Lv Lin ; 2♀♀, Guangxi, Dayao Mountain, 10. ix. 2000, Liu Zhenjiang ( NWAFU) .

Distribution. China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Fujian).

Remarks. This species was described from Guizhou by Li (1990) based on three female specimens that are deposited in the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, China. Recently, Li et al. (2011) redescribed the species and provided figures of the male genitalia. This species can be distinguished by the short pygofer process at the posterior margin, subapical triangular process of the subgenital plate and by the aedeagal shaft being short and robust, with a pair of short dorsoapical processes subequal to half the length of the shaft.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Habitus. A – E, Dorsal views. F – J, Lateral views. K – O, Face. A, F, K, Scaphoideus maulatus; B, G, L, Scaphoideus palingus; C, H, M, Scaphoideus nigrigenatus; D, I, N, Scaphoideus exsertus; E, J, O, Scaphoideus bilineus.