Maiestas rostriformis, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 26-28

Maiestas rostriformis sp. nov.

( Fig. 24 ; Plate III: E)

Length. Male: 4.1mm.

Light brown. Vertex light yellow with six small, dark brown marks on anterior margin, brown longitudinal band midway between eye and midline on each side (Plate III: E); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum light yellow with six brown longitudinal stripes (Plate III: E). Legs marked with dark brown. Forewing cells bordered fuscous (Plate III: E).

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate long, subtriangular, lateral margin almost straight, apex acute ( Fig. 24 F); style, preapical lobe short and sharply angled, apophysis with preapical heel, laterally curved ( Fig. 24 E); connective slightly longer than aedeagus, aedeagal shaft in lateral view broad basally, abruptly tapered at midlength to slim apex ( Figs 24 C, 24D).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Fujian Prov., Shouning, 30 July 2003, coll. Duan Yani ( NWAFU).

Additional material. One female with data: China, Fujian Prov., Nanping, 6 August 2003, coll. Duan Yani ( NWAFU).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the abruptly tapered shaft at midlength ( Figs 24 C, 24D). The additional specimen is tentatively identified as this species. The hind margin of its seventh sternum has a distinctive v-shape median excavation (see Plate IV: I).

Etymology. The name of this species is based on the beaklike shape of the aedeagus in lateral view.

Figures

FIGURE 24. M. rostriformis sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: valve, ventral view; C & D: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view; E: style, dorsal view; F: subgenital plate, ventral view.