Sophonia transvittata, Li & Chen, 2005

Li, Z. Z. & Chen, X. S., 2005, A checklist and key to species of the genus Sophonia (Insecta: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Nirvaninae) in China with descriptions of two new species, Journal of Natural History 39 (1), pp. 71-78 : 75-76

Sophonia transvittata sp. n. ( Figures 1–9 )

Description

Body length including wings: male 5.1–5.2 mm, female 5.8–6.0 mm.

External characters as in generic description with crown of head acutely produced anteriorly, surface slightly convex, part anterior to eye straight; ocellocular distance about 2.5 times diameter of ocellus; frontoclypeus longer than wide; anteclypeus rectangular, longitudinal convex medially. Pronotum convex, about the same length as crown, anterior and posterior margins almost parallel.

Male pygofer with lateral lobe slightly concave at apical margin, apical area with long macrosetae, apical-ventral corner produced as a long spine; subgenital plate slightly curved dorsally; aedeagus with shaft sinuate in lateral aspect with a pair of spine-like process at mid-length, basal apodeme with lateral arms lamellate; connective Y-shaped; style expanded medially, becoming narrower apically, apex with acutely produced outer process and triangular inner process.

Female seventh sternum longer medially than sixth segment, convex longitudinally and medially, posterior margin concave; ovipositor extending beyond apex of pygofer.

Crown yellowish white, laterally adjacent ocellus orange, eyes light yellow and light brown; face more or less whitish, without spots. Pronotum and scutellum light yellow, sides of pronotum with an orange line. Forewing light yellow, clavus with inner-lateral area, apical margin and median area irregularly marked with orange, medially with a black irregular band margined with orange-yellow, apical area with a black mark, large and irregular (male) or small and triangular (female). Thorax yellowish white, without spots, claws black.

HOLOTYPE: male. PARATYPES: one male, three females, China: Yunnan, Pian-ma , (26 ° 03 9 N, 98 ° 24 9 E), altitude 1800 m, 15 August 2000 (Z. Z. Li and X. S. Chen) ( IEGUC) .

Remarks

Sophonia transvittata sp. nov. is similar to S. rufa , but lacks the orange-red lines on the dorsum and black oblique band anteriorly on the forewing.

Figures

Figures 1–9. Sophonia transvittata sp. nov. (1) Dorsal view of adult male. (2) Forewing of male. (3) Forewing of female. (4) Lateral view of male pygofer. (5) Subgenital plate. (6) ventral view of aedeagus. (7) Lateral view of aedeagus. (8) Connective. (9) Style.