Calodia dentispina Fan, Li & Chen

Fan, Zhihua, Li, Zizhong & Chen, Xiangsheng, 2014, A new species of the leafhopper genus Calodia Nielson, 1982 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Coelidiinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 466, pp. 95-102 : 98-100

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Calodia dentispina Fan, Li & Chen sp. n. Figs 1-13

Description.

Length (including wings in repose): ♂ 8.1-8.5 mm, ♀ unkown.

Crown brown, with a variable red broad band medially, about 1/3rd as wide as midline of crown, ocelli and eyes brown (Figs 1, 4). Face yellow to brown, with a red longitudinal stripe on each lateral margin of clypeus (Figs 3, 6). Pronotum dark brown, with yellow markings (Figs 1, 4). Mesonotum dark brown with yellow spots (Fig. 1) or brown with black spots (Fig. 4). Forewing light brown to brown, with or without yellow patches, venation brown or black (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5).

Head narrower than pronotum; crown longer in middle than next to eyes, length beyond eyes about 1/6th median length, coronal suture extending to level of ocelli, ocelli on anterior margin of crown (Figs 1, 2, 4, 5). Face with clypeus flat, laterally expanded under antennal sockets, apex constricted, clypellus narrow, base inflated longitudinally, apically with lateral margins expanded (Figs 3, 6). Crown, pronotum and mesonotum with ratio along midline about 1:1.3:2 (Fig. 1) or 1:1.1:1.5 (Fig. 4).

Male genitalia. Pygofer with caudal lobe broadly triangular in lateral view, caudoventral margin inturned with a small internal digitate process (Fig. 7). Segment X without process. Subgenital fig long, apex with short fine setae (Fig. 8). Connective Y-shaped with stem very short (Fig. 9). Style short and simple, apophysis folded at midlength, narrowed distally to rounded apex (Figs 9, 10). Aedeagal shaft asymmetrical, elongate, distally upturned and tapered to acute apex in lateral view with numerous small spines and fine teeth, with two large subapical processes arising on same side, lower process about twice length of other bifurcate apically with inner branch also bifurcate, upper process with margin serrate in lateral view; gonopore large, subapical, situated laterally (Figs 11-13).

Distribution.

China (Guangxi).

Type material.

Holotype, ♂, CHINA: Guangxi, Chongzuo City, Longzhou County, Nonggang Preserve, 8 May 2012, coll. Fan Zhihua (GUGC). Paratype, 1♂, same data as holotype, except coll. Li Hu (GUGC).

Etymology.

The species name dentispina, refers to the dentate margin of the shorter aedeagal process.

Remarks.

This new species differs from other members of this genus by the shape and configuration of the aedeagal processes.