Japananoides circularis, Cao & Xing, 2022

Cao, Wenjun & Xing, Jichun, 2022, Japananoides, a new leafhopper genus from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 5154 (3), pp. 345-354 : 350-353

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.7

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3AFCC61-7125-4D2C-9C67-2A09CE57E40B

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6644824

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F76B48-BE53-3F36-BCA4-45971086C7CA

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scientific name

Japananoides circularis
status

sp. nov.

Japananoides circularis View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 1–21 View FIGURES 1–4 View FIGURES 5–8 View FIGURES 9–15 View FIGURES 16–21

Description. Color pattern of anterior dorsum and face as in Figs. 1–8 View FIGURES 1–4 View FIGURES 5–8 . Crown with a white median preapical spot. Male face dark brown with four incomplete transverse white stripes ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–4 ); female face dark brown with six white stripes ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 5–8 ).

Other external features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Aedeagus shafts each with three (paratypes) or four (holotype and paratypes) lamellar subapical processes; gonopore subapical ( Figs. 12, 13 View FIGURES 9–15 ). Connective with arms shorter than stem ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 9–15 ). Style broad with slightly laterally curved caudal apex of apophysis, with small subapical setae ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 9–15 ).

Female pygofer with ventroposterior margin sharply incurved ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16–21 ). Female seventh sternum posterior margin with deep angulate median concavity, posterolateral margins acutely produced ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 16–21 ). First valvula of ovipositor slightly curved, attenuate to apex, with obscure reticulate sculpture dorsally and scale-like sculpture ventrally ( Figs. 18, 19 View FIGURES 16–21 ). Second valvula with few large rounded teeth on distal half of dorsal margin ( Figs. 20, 21 View FIGURES 16–21 ).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 4.6–4.7 mm; ♀, 4.8–5.1 mm.

Host. Maples.

Type material. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Guangxi Autonomous Region , Longzhou County, Shuikou , 5 May 2009, coll. Yanli Zheng ( GUGC); paratypes: 1♂ 2♀♀, Guangxi Autonomous Region , Longzhou County , Shuikou, 5 May 2009, coll. Yanli Zheng; 1♂ 1♀, Guangxi Autonomous Region , Daxin County , Encheng, 3 May 2009, coll. Junqiang Ni; 2♂♂ 2♀♀, Guangxi Autonomous Region , Longzhou County, Shuikou, 5 May 2009, coll. Junqiang Ni ( GUGC).

Etymology. The new specie name is derived from the Latin word “circularis”, referring to crown with a white spot.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Japananoides

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