Saccata insolita, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013

Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Two new erythroneurine leafhopper genera and first record of Thailus Mahmood from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), with description of four new species, Zootaxa 3686 (3), pp. 363-372 : 364

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3686.3.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6146199

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Saccata insolita
status

sp. nov.

Saccata insolita View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 1a–e View FIGURE 1. a – e , 2 View FIGURE 2 )

Description. Ground color ( Figs 1a–d View FIGURE 1. a – e ) yellow, without color pattern, eyes black. Forewing with clavus yellow, apical part smoky and transparent, veins yellowish.

Male 3S abdominal apodemes ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 c–e) short, extended to midlength of fourth sternite.

Pygofer dorsal appendage ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 g) falcate. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 i) with 2 stout marginal macrosetae at base and about 4 macrosetae in the center near lateral margin, and row of short peglike microsetae along lateral margin. Style ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 j) with apical tooth long, preapical lobe small but distinct, with some sensory pits near preapical lobe. Connective ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 k) with lateral arms expanded distally. Aedeagal shaft ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 l, m) with pair of long processes apically, directed ventrad, dorsal distal lobe rounded and long; preatrium broad in ventral view.

Measurement. Male length 2.8–2.9mm.

Material examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Jinghong, Yexianggu, light trap, 30. viii. 2010, coll. Han Juan. Paratypes: 203, same data as holotype.

Deposition. Entomological Museum, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, China.

Etymology. This new specific epithet is derived from the Latin word “ insolitus ” meaning “unusual” in view of the macrosetae at the very base of the subgenital plate.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Saccata

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