Limassolla multipunctata ( Matsumura, 1920 )

Hossain, Md. Shamim, Kwon, Jin Hyung, Suh, Sang Jae & Kwon, Yong Jung, 2019, Taxonomic revision of the microleafhopper genus Limassolla Dlabola from Korea (Hemiptrea: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 4603 (3), pp. 549-558 : 555

Limassolla multipunctata ( Matsumura, 1920)

( Figs. 36 ‾46)

Zygina multipunctata Matsumura, 1920 , Man. Jap. Inj. Ins. 1: 293 ( Japan).

Limassolla multipunctata Dworakowska, 1969 , Bull. Acad. Pol. Sci. (Ser. Sci. Biol.) 17(7): 433.

Description. Body relatively smaller, with general coloration pale greenish yellow. Crown slightly produced medially, with two fulvous spots. Face pale yellowish brown, without any spot or streak; anteclypeus relatively long, gradually narrowing apically; rostrum reddish, with dark brown apex. Pronotum with fulvous srtipes. Scutellum with 3 dark spots, and whitish yellow patch behind scutellar suture. Forewing greenish yellow, with 1‾2 castaneous marking on clavus, and numerous dark brown small to medium spots. Second sternal apodeme with posterior lobes ovoid, well developed, slightly shorter, extending up to 4th sternite.

Male genitalia. Pygofer with dorsal margin slightly convex; caudodorsal margin roundly produced, and then slightly concave with numerous thin microsetae on surface; caudoventral processes broad basally, blunt apically, with subapical constriction. Subgenital plate narrowed distally, upturned, with single macroseta near base.Aedeagal shaft straight and tubular, distinctly expanded in lateral view; gonopore subapical, on ventral surface. Style long, with upper half gradually narrowing towards apex, curved laterad, with sharp angled edge subapically, scattered with numerous microsetae on medial surface. Connective Y-shaped, with small central lobe.

Body length. Male 2.6‾ 2.8mm, female 2.8‾3.0mm.

Material examined. Korea, Jejudo Province : 2 males & 3 females, Gwangryeong-Ri, on Rhus chinensis , 19.IX.2016, Y.J. Kwon .

Distribution. Korea (new record: Jejudo), China (Guangdong), Japan (Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku).

Host plant. Rhus chinensis (observed).

Remarks. This species is redescribed herein with the host record observed by the authors. The specimens from Korea have a slight difference in the pygofer process, having a subapical constriction, not widened subapically, with the apex not sharp compared to Japanese specimens.

Figures

FIGURES 36–46. Limassolla multipunctata (Matsumura, 1920): 36. Dorsal habitus. 37. Lateral habitus. 38. Head. 39. Face. 40. Pygofer lobe, lateral view. 41. Subgenital plate. 42. Male abdominal apodemes. 43. Aedeagus, lateral view. 44. Aedeagus, ventral view. 45. Style. 46. Connective.