Salka triprocessa, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Seven new species of the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3430, pp. 50-60 : 58-60

Salka triprocessa sp. nov.

(Figs 49–57)

Description. Vertex beige, with large quadrangular black patch in the centre. Eyes black. Pronotum and scutellum blackish brown (Fig. 49). Face brownish yellow, with two round black spots on upper part of postclypeus (Fig. 50). Male abdominal apodemes small, not exceeding 3rd sternite (Fig. 51).

Male genitalia: Pygofer with dorsal appendage sharply curved ventrally, broad basally and tapered to apex; ventral appendage elongate, extended beyond pygofer apex (Fig. 52). Subgenital plate with 4 macrosetae in oblique row some distance from base and row of short stout setae along upper margin (Fig. 53). Style apex with minute furrows, preapical lobe large (Fig. 54). Aedeagus with 3 apical processes, upper one directed dorsad, lower two extended laterally to shaft, unequal in length; gonopore apical on ventral surface; dorsal apodeme and preatrium short (Figs 55, 56). Connective Y-shaped, with arms robust and central lobe narrow (Fig. 57).

Specimen examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Taiwan, Gaoxiong, 20-XI-2002, coll. Zizhong Li.

Measurement. Male length 3.2 mm (including wing).

Remarks. This species is similar to S. rubronigra Sohi & Mann (1994) , but differs in having the aedeagus with 3 asymmetrical apical processes (Figs 55, 56); the dorsal appendage elongate, strongly tapered (Fig. 52); and the connective with the central lobe narrow (Fig. 57).

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin prefix “ tri -” and “ processa ”, which refers to the aedeagus with 3 apical processes (Figs 55, 56).