Mukaria creagra Zhao, Luo & Chen, 2024

Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, Zootaxa 5474 (3), pp. 259-270 : 261

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12567722

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Mukaria creagra Zhao, Luo & Chen
status

sp. nov.

Mukaria creagra Zhao, Luo & Chen View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 1–11 View FIGURES 1–11 , 23, 25–28 View FIGURES 23–32

Body length: male: 3.39–3.62 mm, female: 3.65–3.81 mm.

Coloration. Body mostly black. Crown black ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Frontoclypeus with a dark yellow rounded spot in basal middle region, the rest black ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Ocellus dark yellow, middle area of eye dark brown, surrounded by milky white ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Pronotum and scutellum dark. Forewing clavus with rectangular white spot on posterior half at commissural margin, (female spots white to yellowish white) ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Outer margin of forewings with two slightly transparent white spots at central and subapical parts, tips light gray and slightly transparent ( Figs 1, 2 View FIGURES 1–11 ).

Head and thorax. Anterior margin of crown arcuately convex, midlength about 0.4 times the inter ocular width (1: 2.68) ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Ocellus located at lateral margin of crown, near eyes ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Face including eyes 1.3 times as wide as long (1.28: 1); base of frontoclypeus tumid, middle and terminal parts flat; lorum with obvious wrinkles on surface ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Pronotum transversely broad, subequal to head width (1.04: 1) ( Fig. 3 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Forewing length about 5.3 times as long as widest part (5.31:1) ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–11 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer transversely broad, dorsal part with thick and long bristles, ventral margin with small spine in middle ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Valve pentagonal, subgenital plate narrow at base, broad at the middle, and densely bristled laterally ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Style apex fingerlike, curved obliquely laterad ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 1–11 ). Connective and aedeagus fused, aedeagus stout at base, separated into two branches at middle, both branches curved and hook-like at the subterminal part, pointing towards each other and ending in a thick and long spine, with another small denticle at the subterminal part, near gonopore ( Fig. 8, 9 View FIGURES 1–11 ).

Female genitalia. Sternite VII about 4 times as wide as long, with bowed anterior margin, “V”-shaped depression in middle of posterior margin, and acute projection of lateral angles of anterior and posterior margins ( Fig. 23 View FIGURES 23–32 ). Dorsal surface of Valvula I with strigate sculpturing occupying approximately distal 1/2 ( Figs. 25, 26 View FIGURES 23–32 ). Valvula II with prominent teeth, occupying about distal 1/3 ( Figs. 27, 28 View FIGURES 23–32 ).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♂, China: Guizhou, Bijie City, Weining County, Caohai National Nature Reserve (26°88’N, 104°23’E), 13 August 2018, collectors: Shasha Lv, Hongxing Li. paratypes: 1♂♂ 2♀♀, China: Guizhou, Bijie City, Weining County , Caohai National Nature Reserve (26°88’N, 104°23’E), 13 August 2018, collectors: Shasha Lv, Hongxing Li. 10♂♂ 5 ♀♀, China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County , Menglun Town (21°93’N, 101°25’E), 30 August 2017, collectors: Nian Gong, Qiang Luo.

Distribution. China (Guizhou and Yunnan).

Host Plant. Bamboo.

Etymology. The name is the Latin noun ‘creagra’ meaning ‘hook’ and refers to the hook-like projection at the subterminal part of the aedeagus branches.

Remarks. The new species is most similar to M. penthimioides Distant, 1908 , but differs as follows: (1) forewing clavus of the new species with a rectangular white spot (black in latter); (2) pygofer of new species with spine-like protrusion in lateral view (latter with rod-like protrusion); (3) aedeagus of new species starts branching from the middle, with both branches hook-like preapically and end acute (aedeagus of latter starts branching from the base, with the tip pointed and curved to the dorsal side).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Mukaria

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