Cyrta condupulicata, Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008

Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 1793, pp. 1-27 : 8

Cyrta condupulicata sp. n. ( Fig. 8 )

Description. Body length: ɗ 6.4mm. Body colour generally brown; vertex with black apically and over medial line, a pair of blackish brown elongate spots situated subbasally ( Fig. 8 B); frontoclypeus and lora darker; anteclypeus with pair of stout setae apically ( Fig. 8 E). Pronotum darker on disc; thorax with somewhat dense short white setae; tufts of hairlike setae on scutellum very long, brown to black ( Fig. 8 B).

Male genital capsule with short to long macrosetae and very short setae; subgenital plate extending nearly to apex of pygofer side ( Fig. 8 G). Aedeagal shaft with lateral margin serrate, double layered medially, apex distinctively incised medially in ventral view ( Figs 8 C, D).

Type material. Holotype: ɗ ( NWAFU), E. MALAYSIA, SABAH: Tinanamantawaram (Ca 1000m), nr. Poling, 18-VI-1983, S. Nagai leg, Coll. M. Hayashi.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the conduplicate aedeagal shaft.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished from other species of this genus by its unique aedeagal shaft which is double layered medially with its lateral margin serrate and its apex distinctively incised medially in ventral view ( Figs 8 C, D).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Cyrta conduplicata sp. n. A, style and connective, dorsal view; B, head and thorax, dorsal view; C, aedeagus, ventral view; D, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; E, face; F, male genital capsule, ventral view; G, male genital capsule, lateral view.