Mukaria striola 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 : 263

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12567728

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scientific name

Mukaria striola Zhao, Luo & Chen
status

sp. nov.

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

Figs. 12–22 View FIGURES 12–22 , 24, 29–32 View FIGURES 23–32

Body length: male: 3.9–4.2 mm, female: 4.0– 4.3 mm.

Coloration. Body is black. Crown black ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Frontoclypeus with a bright yellow rounded spot in basal middle region ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Ocellus yellow, eye brownish black ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Pronotum with three yellow stripes in anterior, middle and posterior margins, scutellum dark ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Forewings with bright yellow irregular stripes except telocellular area. External margin of forewing with a transparent spot near the terminal part ( Figs. 12, 13 View FIGURES 12–22 ).

Head and thorax. Crown moderately extended forward, midlength about 0.3 times inter ocular width (1:3.88) ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Ocellus located at lateral margin of crown ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Face including eyes 1.5 times as wide as long (1.51:1); base of frontoclypeus plump, the middle part is mostly flat; lorum with wrinkles on the surface ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Pronotum transversely broad, subequal to head width (1.07:1) ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Forewing length about 4 times as long as the widest part (3.98:1) ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 12–22 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer transversely broad, dorsal part with attenuate and long bristles, ventral margin with a thick and long spine curved toward base in middle with tip spiculate ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Valve trapezoidal, subgenital plate narrow the base, broad at the middle and densely small setose laterally ( Fig. 22 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Style apex fingerlike pointing outward obliquely, constricted with many small tiny hairs in middle ( Fig. 21 View FIGURES 12–22 ). Connective and aedeagus fused, aedeagus stout at base, separated into two branches in 1/3 of base, both branches slanted and slender, apex spiny, curved toward base ( Figs. 19, 20 View FIGURES 12–22 ).

Female genitalia. Sternite VII is about 3.4 times as wide as long, with nearly straight anterior margin, concave posterior margin, and lateral margins tapered posteriorly ( Fig. 24 View FIGURES 23–32 ). Valvula I similar to Mukaria creagra sp. nov. Valvula II more sparsely toothed ( Figs. 31, 32 View FIGURES 23–32 ).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE: ♂, China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County, Menglun Town (21°93’N, 101°25’E), 27 September 2015, collectors: Zhengxiang Zhou, Qiang Luo, GoogleMaps paratypes: 4 ♂♂, China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County , Menglun Town (21°93’N, 101°25’E), 27 September 2015, collectors: Zhengxiang Zhou, Qiang Luo. GoogleMaps 6 ♂♂ 6♀♀, China: Yunnan, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County , Mohan Town (21°46’N, 101°56’E), 2 September 2017, collectors: Nian Gong, Qiang Luo, Yan Zhi. GoogleMaps

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Host Plant. Bamboo.

Etymology. The name is the Latin noun ‘striola’ means ‘striated’ and refers to the pronotum and forewings covered with yellow stripes.

Remarks. The new species is most similar to M. albinotata Cai & Ge, 1996 , but differs as follows: (1) pronotum and forewing of new species with yellow stripes (shiny black in latter); (2) pygofer of new species with a long protrusion curved toward the end in lateral view (latter with a long protrusion curved toward the base); (3) aedeagus of new species starts branching from the 1/3, with both branches end acute toward the base (aedeagus of latter starts branching from the base, with the tip split into two lamellar processes, one pointing to base and other to apex).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Mukaria

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