Cyrta orientalis (Schumacher) Schumacher, 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 : 7

Cyrta orientalis (Schumacher) comb. n. ( Fig. 5 )

Placidus orientalis Schumacher 1915: 104

Description. Body length: ɗ, 7.8–8.0 mm; Ψ, 8.1mm. Body colour generally brown; vertex darker apically ( Fig. 5 E); anteclypeus with pair of stout setae apically ( Fig. 5 D); pronotum dark on disc, posterior margin angularly incurved; scutellum with very long tufts of black hairlike setae laterally ( Fig. 5 E).

Male pygofer with dorsal margin straight in lateral view ( Fig. 5 C). Valve subtriangular, broadened basally; subgenital plate much shorter than pygofer side ( Fig. 5 F); outer basal arm of style very strong ( Fig. 5 B). Aedeagal shaft tapered to apex, a process on each side apically strongly curved ventrally in lateral view ( Fig. 5 G), margin between processes nearly trucate in ventral view ( Fig.5 A).

Material examined. CHINA, Taiwan: 1Ψ ( ZSU), Horl (Pull. Polisia), Taichong, Distr. 800m, Met., 22– VIII- (19)47, L. Gressitt; 1ɗ ( NWAFU), Nantou, Nanshan Chi, T. Endo Leg., 5-V-1982, M. Hayashi; 1ɗ, 1Ψ ( INHS), Taichung, Gu Kang, Tai Dian Rd. Ca. 1km S. Rt.8, 1000m, 24°12´24´´N, 121° 1´27´´E, 26-VI-2004, sweeping, C.H. Dietrich.

Remarks. The male genitalia of this species are examined and figured here for the first time.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Cyrta orientalis A, aedeagus, ventral view; B, style and connective, dorsal view; C, male genital capsule, lateral view; D, face; E, head and thorax, dorsal view; F, male genital capsule, ventral view; G, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view.