Limassolla ishiharai Dworakowska, 1972

Hossain, Md. Shamim, Kwon, Jin Hyung, Suh, Sang Jae & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the microleafhopper genus Limassolla Dlabola from Korea (Hemiptrea: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 4603 (3), pp. 549-558 : 550-552

Limassolla ishiharai Dworakowska, 1972

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Limassolla ishiharai Dworakowska, 1972 , Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. (Ser. Sci. Biol.) 20(12): 865 ( Japan).

Limassolla ishiharai: Choe, 1986 , Thes. Dr. Agr. Seoul Nat. Univ.: 36 ( Korea).

Limassolla ishiharai: Kwon et al., 1994 , Check List Ins. Kor.: 92 ( Korea).

Limassolla ishiharai: Kwon et al., 1996 , List Biol. Spec. Kor.: 121 ( Korea).

Limassolla ishiharai: Kwon & Huh, 2001 , Ins. Kor. Suppl.: 282 ( Korea).

Limassolla ishiharai: Paek et al., 2010 , Check List Kor. Ins.: 63 ( Korea).

Limassolla (Limassolla) ishiharai: Lee et al., 2014 , Nat. List Spec. Kor. Ins. Hem. II: 100 ( Korea).

Description. Body slender; general coloration pale yellow. Crown produced medially, with two fulvous spots. Face more or less milky white; frontoclypeus with fulvous hypodermal small stripes. Eyes light brown. Pronotum and scutellum with fulvous srtipes. Forewing subhyaline, with yellowish longitudinal markings and numerous small to medium dark brown spots. Hindwing hyaline. Second sternal apodeme with posterior lobes ovoid, well developed, little extending to 5th sternite.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with dorsal margin slightly concave; caudodorsal margin roundly produced, with numerous thin microsetae on surface; caudoventral margin with process slender and long, straight and uniform at middle, upcurved and strongly broadened at apex. Subgenital plate narrowed distally and upturned, with single macroseta basally. Aedeagal shaft straight in ventral view, bent in lateral view, more or less uniformly tubular with blunt tip; gonopore apical on ventral surface. Style long, with sharp angled subapical edge, armed with numerous microsetae medially. Connective Y-shaped, with small central lobe.

Body length. Male 2.8‾3.0mm, female 3.2‾ 3.3mm.

Material examined. Korea, Gangwon Province: 4 males, Seoraksan, 26.VII.1982, Y.J. Kwon; 18 males & 3 females, Balgyosan, on Rhus chinensis and R. trichocarpa , 21.VIII.2016; 9 males & 6 females, Balgyosan, on Rhus chinensis and R. trichocarpa , 25.IX.2016; 1 male, Giusan, on Rhus chinensis , 8.VIII.2016; Gyeongbuk Province: 1 male, Cheongyangsan, 10.VIII.2015; 1 male, Juwangsan, 26.VII.1984; 2 females, Palgongsan, 10.VIII.2015; 1 male & 21 females, Samgang, Pungyang-M, 30.VI.2015, all same collector.

Distribution. Korea (Central, South), Japan (Honshu), China (Hunan, Shaanxi, Guangxi).

Host plant. Rhus chinensis and R. trichocarpa (observed).

Remarks. This species was described by Dworakowska (1972) briefly based on Japanese type specimens. Here, we provide detailed illustrations and description with host records.

Figures

FIGURES 1–11. Limassolla ishiharai Dworakowska, 1972: 1. Dorsal habitus. 2. Lateral habitus. 3. Head. 4. Face. 5. Pygofer lobe, lateral view. 6. Subgenital plate. 7. Male abdominal apodemes. 8. Aedeagus, lateral view. 9. Aedeagus, ventral view. 10. Style. 11. Connective.