Subulatus Yang

Li, Yu-Jian, Li, Zi-Zhong & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2015, A review of the leafhopper genus Subulatus Yang & Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae), with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 3914 (1), pp. 77-82 : 77-78

Subulatus Yang & Z h an g

Subulatus Yang & Zhang, 2001: 177

Type species: Subulatus bipunctatus Yang & Zhang

Distribution. China (Sichuan, Hunan, Yunnan).

Description. Body medium-sized, 6.0– 7.5 mm in length (including tegmen). Front of head slightly conically produced; vertex slightly shorter than wide, about as long as pronotum, with paired preapical spots and median apical spot black; lateral margin carinate; median longitudinal carina lamellate, median carina and submarginal carina concentrated on head; area between median carina and submarginal carina slightly concave. Frontoclypeus broad, with median longitudinal carina strongly elevated, laterally obliquely striate; lora nearly reaching apex of clypellus. Pronotum broad, wider than head. Scutellum triangular, about as long as pronotum, with transverse depression distinct. Forewing with veins prominent, with R1a present; five apical cells; appendix very narrow.

Male pygofer with elongate, slender ventral process arising near base, base wider than the distal half. Subgenital plate elongate, macrosetae irregularly distributed. Aedeagus somewhat bulbous; with pair of curved processes arising dorsally from atrium and extended posterad; distal half subulate, arched in lateral view, with many small scalelike bumps; gonopore apical. Style stout, with beaklike apex of apophysis having elongated lateral angle. Connective Y-shaped with stem longer than arms.

Remarks. This genus is similar to Carinata Li & Wang , but they can be distinguished from each other by: 1) the shape of the male pygofer in side view; 2) aedeagal end of Subulatus with many scalelike bumps.