Shamala Dworakowska, 2022

Zhou, Xian, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, New leafhopper species and new records of Typhlocybini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae) from China, ZooKeys 1082, pp. 135-151 : 135

Shamala Dworakowska rec. nov.

Shamala Dworakowska, 1980: 169, figs 174-187.

Type species.

Shamala mikra Dworakowska, 1980.

Remarks.

The genus Shamala was erected by Dworakowska (1980); thereafter she described four additional species from India and Nepal (1981), Sikkim (1994), and India (1982). In this paper, a new species, S. annulata sp. nov., from Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated which increases the number of valid species in this genus to six.

Diagnosis.

Body slim and cream with occasional light brown patches. Head slightly wider than pronotum with length along midline slightly shorter than distance between eyes. Forewing parallel-sided, rounded terminally; RP and MP’ petiolate at base. Hind wing gradually narrowing from base to apex and rounded terminally with two cross veins.

Male sternal abdominal apodemes extending to 4th or 5th sternite.

Male genitalia. Genital capsule short; pygofer side with a weekly sclerotized area near middle of hind margin; several rigid setae at caudo-ventral angle and macrosetae on middle part. Subgenital plate gradually narrowing towards apex with a macroseta at base and row of short peg-like setae from middle to apex of outer margin; two rigid setae apically and few fine setae on inner margin subapically. Connective laminate, with stem well developed. Paramere with caudad part long, with several setae on outer margin. Aedeagal shaft with distal asymmetrical processes; with long membranous terminal part.

Distribution.

Oriental Region.