Makilingia nigramima, Dietrich & Zahniser, 2019

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 488

Makilingia nigramima n. sp.

( Figs. 1 Z–AA, 5EE–II)

Length of male 5.9 mm. Coloration. Black, unmarked except antennae and legs pale stramineous. Structure. Head produced with crown anterior margin broadly parabolic; face with frontoclypeus and anteclypeus finely shagreen and finely punctate, clypeal suture obsolete, anteclypeus in profile very slightly angulate; large punctations restricted to genae. Forewing venation relatively well delimited, without supernumerary branches or crossveins; s crossvein absent.

Male genitalia. Pygofer appendage large, straight and relatively narrow in basal half, expanded and curved dorsad in distal half, coarsely denticulate. Subgenital plate with distal lobe relatively long, evenly curved dorsad, in ventral view broadened preapically, dorsal callosity relatively small. Style basal lobe large and rounded, preapical lobe sharply angulate, apex relatively broad, with preapical heel weakly developed. Aedeagus with preatrium well developed but much shorter than shaft, weakly sclerotized dorsally such that only narrow well-sclerotized ventral section is well visible in lateral view; shaft strongly compressed, in lateral view broad, nearly straight, apex truncate, dorsal margin with medial concavity, atrium with narrow bulblike lateral process extended posterad; in posterior view, shaft slightly expanded toward apex, apex rounded, atrial process broad basally, then narrowed to bulbous apex.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The species name refers to the similarity of this species to M. nigra .

Material examined. Holotype male from Baker collection labeled: "Mt. Makiling/ Luzon, Baker; USNMENT / 01513420" ( USNM).

Notes. The holotype is part of a series of specimens identified by Baker as M. nigra . This is one of four known species in the genus that have the dorsum uniformly black, without red, yellow or white markings. It differs from M. nigra , M. paranigra n. sp. and M. siamensis n. sp. in having the lateral processes of the aedeagal atrium slender with bulblike apices.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Makilingia spp., dorsal and lateral habitus: A–B, Makilingia banahaoensis, male; C, M. banahaoensis, female; D– E, M. colorata lectotype male; F–G, M. costalis, holotype male; H–I, M. davaoensis, holotype male; J–K, M. flavifrons, male; L–M, M. frontalis, lectotype male; N–O, M. haightiana lectotype male; P–Q, M. intermedia (lectotype male of M. variabilis); R–S, M. lineata holotype female; T–U, M. lobata, holotype male; V–W, M. maculamima, holotype male; X–Y, M. maculata, lectotype male; Z–AA, M. nigra lectotype male; BB–CC, M. nigramima holotype male; DD–EE, M. pallida, lectotype male; FF, M. pallida (cotype of M. pallida benguetensis Baker), female; GG–HH, M. panayensis, holotype female; II–JJ, M. panayensis, male; Scale bars: 1 mm.