Oblongitubus caligicaudatus Luo & Huang, 2025

Luo, Yixiao, Kang, Juxia, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2025, Descriptions of new taxa and records of the microleafhopper tribe Alebrini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 5706 (4), pp. 551-570 : 553-554

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5706.4.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17883610

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Oblongitubus caligicaudatus Luo & Huang
status

sp. nov.

Oblongitubus caligicaudatus Luo & Huang View in CoL sp. nov. ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 )

Description. Length of male 4.05–4.30mm. Body pale. Crown white. Pronotum white; scutum with triangles yellowish, middle part white ( Figs 1A, 1B, 1C View FIGURE 1 ). Forewing transparent with some very light white or gray patches ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Hind wing transparent ( Fig. 1E View FIGURE 1 ).

Abdominal apodeme reaching to 3rd sternite ( Fig. 1F View FIGURE 1 ). Pygofer side with upper half short, lower half strongly produced with some long thin setae on dorsal and ventral margin, disc with several microsetae on upper part and numerous small teeth on produced part ( Fig. 1H View FIGURE 1 ). Subgenital plate not exceeding posterior margin of pygofer ( Fig. 1G View FIGURE 1 ), basal 3/4 broad with row of thick macrosetae medially and group of short rigid microsetae subapically; apical 1/4 abruptly narrowed and subtriangular, fold dorsally with some microsetae ( Fig. 1I View FIGURE 1 ). Paramere arched, cephalic part broad, caudal part with base expanded and upper half narrow and slightly curved apically ( Figs 1J View FIGURE 1 ). Connective lamellar, lateral feet thin and long ( Fig. 1K View FIGURE 1 ). Aedeagus elongate, strongly sclerotized and pigment at processes and apical half of shaft; shaft thin and long with pair of slim processes dorsal apically and directed basad, and with pair of thin lamellate protrusions dorsal apically; gonopore apical ( Figs 1L, 1M, 1N View FIGURE 1 ).

Material examined. Holotype. ♂, China, Shaanxi Province, Shiquan County, Raofeng Town , alt. 560m, 8- VIII-2022, coll. Sun, Xu. Paratypes. 5♂, same data as holotype .

Etymology. The species name comes from the combination of Latin words “calig-(boot)” and “cauda (tail)”, referring to the boot-like pygofer side.

Note. This species is very similar to Oblongitubus licinicaudatus sp. nov. in body color and shape, but O. caligicaudatus sp. nov. has the pygofer side boot-like, while O. licinicaudatus sp. nov. has the pygofer side subtriangular and curved dorsally.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Oblongitubus

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