Parafagocyba forficula Huang et Zhang

Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Review the leafhopper genera Parafagocyba Kuoh et Hu and Zorka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with description of a new species and two new records from China, Zootaxa 3608 (1), pp. 81-86 : 83

Parafagocyba forficula Huang et Zhang , n. sp.

Figs 12–22

Measurement: Male, 3.66 mm (including wings); female, 3.78 mm.

Upper body greenish-yellow. Eyes and face yellow ( Figs 12, 14 ). Vertex and anterior and lateral margin of pronotum greenish-yellow, central disc and hind margin light smoke, scutellum and triangles yellow, scutoscutellar sulcus brownish black; forewings light yellowish brown with veins yellow; hind wings white with veins brownish ( Figs 12–13 ).

Abdominal apodemes reaching middle of 6th abdominal sternite. Aedeagal shaft slim and curved at right angle to basal process, bifurcated at apical 1/3 ( Figs 21–22 ).

Type materials. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Xinzhu Botanical Garden, 2300m, Pinus forest, 15.XI.1999, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratypes: 23 6ƤƤ, 2400m, 16.XI.1999; 13, 2300~ 2500m, southern slope, 16.XI.1999; 1Ƥ, 2450m, Ericaceae , shrub, 14.XI.1999; 1Ƥ, 2300m, 16.XI.1999, same locality and collector as holotype.

Notes. The new species is similar to P. b i na r ia Kuoh et Hu in male genitalia, but can be distinguished by the greenish yellow color pattern ( Figs 12–14 ), smaller habitus ( Figs 12–13 ) and forked process of the aedeagal shaft ( Fig. 21 ).

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from Latin word “ forficula ” which means “forked”, referring to the forked apical process of aedeagus ( Fig. 21 ).

Figures

FIGURES 12 – 22. Parafagocyba forficula n. sp. 12, habitus, dorsal view; 13, habitus, lateral view; 14, face; 15, 3 pygofer side, lateral view; 16, connective; 17, paramere, connective, subgenital plate and sternite IX, dorsal view; 18, paramere; 19, 3 genital capsule, lateral view; 20, subgenital plate; 21, apex of aedeagal process, dorsal view; 22, aedeagus, lateral view.