Striatanus erectus, Zhang, Yalin, Zhang, Xinmin & Wei, Cong, 2009

Zhang, Yalin, Zhang, Xinmin & Wei, Cong, 2009, Review of the leafhopper genus Striatanus Li & Wang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) with description of one new species from China, Zootaxa 2292, pp. 49-56 : 56

Striatanus erectus sp. nov.

( Figs 31–42 )

Measurements (male): body length: 7.5–7.8 mm; head width (incl. eyes): 1.6–1.8 mm; head length: 1.5–1.6 mm.

Vertex ( Figs 31, 32 ) less elongate, distinctly shorter than pronotum and scutellum together.

Male pygofer ( Fig. 34 ) in lateral view with apex rounded; ventral process ( Figs 34, 42 ) strongly curved dorsad, apical part tapered apically, with apex somewhat truncate. Aedeagus ( Fig. 35 ) strongly posteriorly produced basally; apical half of aedeagal shaft in lateral view nearly straight, gonopore subapical.

Etymology: The name of this species is derived from the nearly straight aedeagal shaft.

Type specimens: Holotype: 3 ( IZAS), China: Yunnan Prov., Pingbian, Daweishan, 1500m, 22-June- 1956, coll: Huang Keren.

Remarks: This species resembles Striatanus curvatanus Li & Wang externally, but can be distinguished from the latter by the shape of the ventral process of male pygofer and aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURES 31 – 42. Striatanus erectus sp. nov. 31. habitus, dorsal view; 32. habitus, lateral view; 33. face; 34. male pygofer, lateral view; 35. aedeagus, ventral view; 36. aedeagus, lateral view; 37. forewing; 38. hindwing; 39. subgenital plate; 40. connective and style; 41. style; 42. pygofer ventral process, lateral view.