Ishiharella multiprotrusa Yu, Yang & Dietrich

Yu, Xiaofei & Yang, Maofa, 2015, Five new species of Ishiharella Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) with a key to worldwide species of the genus, Zootaxa 4000 (5), pp. 571-580 : 577-578

Ishiharella multiprotrusa Yu, Yang & Dietrich , sp. nov.

( Figs 36–43 , 52–53 )

Type material. Holotype: 1 ♂, Thailand, Loei Phu Ruea NP office, 17°28.805’N, 101°21.242’E, 870m., malaise trap, 12–19 July 2006, Patikhom Tamtio leg ( QSBG).

Length: ♂ 3.54mm.

Crown orange, area between eyes with two pigmented depressions and yellowish patches ( Fig. 52 ). Eyes grey ( Fig. 52 ). Ocelli white ( Fig. 52 ). Face yellowish, anteclypeus black apically ( Fig. 53 ). Pronotum orange with brown depression in lateral margin and blackish posteromedial patch ( Fig. 52 ). Scutellum yellowish, scutoscutellar sulcus brownish ( Fig. 52 ). Forewing brown, hind wing hyaline ( Fig. 52 ). Legs yellowish except claws black ( Fig. 53 ).

Male ventral abdominal apodemes reaching posterior margin of segment 3 ( Fig. 36 ). Male pygofer narrowed anteriorly, anterior margin bearing few setae ( Figs 38, 39 ). Subgenital plates longer than pygofer in lateral view, fused almost to apex, bearing 8 macrosetae in one row and ca. 23 microsetae in 3 rows ( Fig. 37 ). Paramere elongate, apex slender, cheliform ( Fig. 40 ). Aedeagal shaft short, broad, ovoid, strongly compressed, ventral process nearly symmetrical, bearing three pairs of branches, branches slender and bowed laterad, becoming progressively longer distally ( Figs 41, 42 ). Anal tube process falcate in ventral view ( Fig. 43 ).

Etymology. The name of the new species is derived from the combination of “multi-” and “protrusus”, refering to the aedeagal process with three pairs of branches that look like protrusions.

Remarks. The new species is similar to I. inflata Yu & Yang , sp. nov. in having three pairs of branches on the aedeagal process ( Figs 41, 42 ), but differs from the latter in having the middle pair of branches longer than the basal pair and not crossing the basal pair in lateral view ( Figs 41, 42 ), and by shape of the paramere apex ( Fig. 40 ).

Figures

FIGURES 36 – 43 Ishiharella multiprotrusa Yu, Yang & Dietrich, sp. nov., 36 male abdominal apodemes, 37 subgenital plate, ventral view, 38 male pygofer, ventral view, 39 male pygofer, lateral view, 40 paramere, 41 aedeagus, lateral view, 42 aedeagus, dorsolateral view, 43 male tube process, ventral process.

FIGURES 44 – 53 whole body. 44 – 45 Ishiharella dentidensa sp. nov.; 46 – 47 Ishiharella falcata sp. nov.; 48 – 49 Ishiharella hirsuta sp. nov.; 50 – 51 Ishiharella inflata sp. nov.; 52 – 53 Ishiharella multiprotrusa sp. nov. Scale bars = 1. 0 mm