Mimotettix tibetensis, Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2010

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, Review of the Old World leafhopper genus Mimotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of new species, Zootaxa 2651, pp. 1-26 : 10

Mimotettix tibetensis sp. nov.

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Type material. Holotype 3, China: Tibet, Motuo, 1310m, 3. Sept. 1979, Jin Gentao and Wu Jianyi; Paratypes: China, 1Ƥ, same data as holotype; 3Ƥ, same data as holotype except: 2Ƥ, 28 Sept. 1979, 1Ƥ, 22 Sept. 1979, 1Ƥ, 1250m, 19 Sept. 1979; 13, Tibet, Motuo, Beibeng, 950m, 16 June 1980, Jin Gentao and Wu Jianyi (all in SEM).

Etymology. The species name refers to the origins of the type specimens in Tibet.

Description. Body length (including tegmen):3 5.8 – 5.9mm, Ƥ 6.4 – 6.5mm.

Male genitalia: Pygophore relatively short, strongly tapered to acutely rounded apex; with a long process on inner surface arising near ventral margin and directed caudally and dorsally. Connective stem about twice length of arms. Aedeagal shaft with a pair of triangular-shape dentate subapical flanges on each side, apical process with length slightly more than 1/2 length of shaft.

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to M. distiflangentus in the shape of the aedeagus but differs in the short pygophore, with a long process on the inner surface arising near ventral margin, and the aedeagal shaft is not concave along the anterodorsal margin.

Distribution. China (Tibet) ( Fig.17 ).

Figures

FIGURE 15. Mimotettix tibetensis sp. nov., male genitalia. (A) Pygophore, left lateral view. (B) Left side of pygophore, ventral view. (C) Connective. (D) Aedeagus, left lateral view. (E) Valve, subgenital plates, style and connective, ventral (left) and dorsal (right) views. (F) Right style, dorsal view.

FIGURE 17. Map showing the geographical distributions of Mimotettix species: M. curticeps (●), M. distiflangentus (․), M. dorsocavatus (), M. fanjingensis (), M. spinosus (О), M. robustistylus (˔), M. slenderus (), M. tebitensis (*).