Shibinga nigra, Song & Yuan & Jiang, 2021

Song, Yuehua, Yuan, Zhouwei & Jiang, Jia, 2021, A new, unusually dark, typhlocybine leafhopper (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae, Erythroneurini) from China, ZooKeys 1042, pp. 35-40 : 35

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1042.63593

publication LSID

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/45DD05A4-BE4C-4F0B-9BAC-399320323F88

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Shibinga nigra
status

sp. nov.

Shibinga nigra sp. nov. Figs 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2

Specimens examined.

Holotype: ♂, China, Guizhou Prov., Shibing, Heichong , 24-28.v.2019, coll. Zhouwei Yuan & Chao Tan. Paratypes: China, Guizhou Prov., Shibing : 1♂, same data as holotype ; 1♂, Heichong , 22-24.x.2019, coll. Zhouwei Yuan & Xiao Yang ; 2♂♂, Niejiayan , 24-28.v.2019, coll. Zhouwei Yuan & Chao Tan ; 1♂, Wangjiazhuang , 24-28.v.2019, coll. Zhouwei Yuan & Chao Tan ; 3♀♀, Lutianba , 24-28.v.2019, coll. Zhouwei Yuan & Chao Tan.

Measurement.

Body length, males 2.6-2.7 mm, females 2.7-2.8 mm.

Description.

Head, pronotum and mesonotum mainly blackish brown (Fig. 1A-F View Figure 1 ). Vertex with an irregular yellowish spot on each side at apex, extending onto face. Face dorsally brown, frontoclypeus with a longitudinal medial line in upper half, yellow; anteclypeus brownish yellow; genae yellow (Fig. 1C, E View Figure 1 ). Forewing dark brownish hyaline with three irregular yellowish white markings as in Fig. 1G View Figure 1 . Legs yellow. Abdomen dark brown with margins of segments yellow.

Male abdominal sternal apodemes short, not extending to hind margin of 3rd segment (Fig. 2J View Figure 2 ); broad and expanded in lateral view (Fig. 2I View Figure 2 ).

Male genitalia as in generic description. Pygofer not extended to apex of subgenital plate, articulated dorsal appendage slightly curved distally (Fig. 2A View Figure 2 ). Subgenital plate with 4 macrosetae laterally in distal half (Fig. 2C, F View Figure 2 ). Style preapical lobe greatly enlarged (Fig. 2G, H View Figure 2 ). Aedeagal shaft short and slim (Fig. 2D View Figure 2 ); dorsal apodeme with dorsal lateral corners greatly extended and sharp apically (Fig. 2E View Figure 2 ); preatrium moderately long, little longer or equal to length of shaft (Fig. 2D, E View Figure 2 ); gonopore subapical on ventral surface (Fig. 2E View Figure 2 ). Connective Y-shaped (Fig. 2L View Figure 2 ).

Etymology.

The species is named for its unusual dark color, from the Latin niger, black.

Remarks.

This species can be distinguished by external and male genitalia characters (see generic remarks).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Shibinga