Jilinga linzhiensis, Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Review of the leafhopper genus Jilinga Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini), with description of two new species from China, Zootaxa 3164, pp. 49-56 : 52-53

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.209532

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3509377

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D1770E46-FFF5-5E48-FF3F-FA4EEBDAFF6E

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scientific name

Jilinga linzhiensis
status

sp. nov.

Jilinga linzhiensis View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 18–27 View FIGURES 18 – 27 , 37–39 View FIGURES 37 – 45

Description. Body robust, color pattern of anterior dorsum and face as in Figs. 37–39 View FIGURES 37 – 45 . Vertex with pair of black stripes on anterior margin, median length shorter than width between eyes. Hind wings with three apical cells, macropterous, with two anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell closed basally. Legs dark brown. External features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer side with long sharp spine on inner surface arising near posteroventral margin and directed apically and ventrally, with many macrosetae posteriorly ( Fig 18 View FIGURES 18 – 27 ). Anal tube produced anteroventrally into pair of long sharp spine-like processes ( Fig 19 View FIGURES 18 – 27 ). Aedeagus with short preatrium attached to dorsal connective with two pairs of sharp spines, aedeagal shaft with five short spines on each side, gonopore apical ( Figs 22–24 View FIGURES 18 – 27 ). Connective, loop-shaped with arms fused apically ( Figs 25, 26 View FIGURES 18 – 27 ). Style elongate,apex acute ( Fig 27 View FIGURES 18 – 27 ).

Measurements. Length (including tegmen): Male, 3.0–3.1mm, female, 3.1–3.3mm.

Host. Grasses.

Type Material. Holotype 3, CHINA: Xizang Autonomous Region, Linzhi, 14 August 1992, coll. Baohai Wang ( GUGC). Paratypes: 1 3, 3Ƥ, same data as holotype ( GUGC).

Diagnosis. This new species is similar to J. darjilingensis but differs in the structure of the aedeagal shaft, apex of the style is long and acute, and in the structure of the dorsal connective..

Etymology. The species name is derived from the type locality Linzhi.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Jilinga

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