Salka guilinensis, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Seven new species of the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3430, pp. 50-60 : 55-56

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282029

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6175093

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Salka guilinensis
status

sp. nov.

Salka guilinensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 26–33 View FIGURES 26 – 33 )

Description. Externally resembles S. fanjinga sp. nov., but pronotum with single transverse oval impression medially; scutellum lighter, brown ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ). Face yellowish; postclypeus and basal part of anteclypeus brown ( Fig. 27 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ). Male abdominal apodemes not exceeding 3rd sternite ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ).

Male genitalia: Pygofer with two dorsal macrosetae. Anal tube with pair of bifurcate basal processes. Subgenital plate long, with 3 macrosetae in oblique row extended posteromesad from margin and many rigid setae forming continuous row along upper margin ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ). Style apex expanded and truncate, preapical lobe well developed ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ). Aedeagal shaft with single long and pair of bifurcate apical processes, two small short tooth-like processes arising from base of shaft dorso-laterally; preatrium small and dorsal apodeme long and slender; gonopore apical ( Figs 31, 32 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ). Connective Y-shaped, with central lobe large and two lateral arms small and sclerotized ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ).

Specimen examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Guangxi Prov., Guilin, 30-VII-2007, coll. Zehong Meng. Paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype.

Measurement. Male length 3.6 mm (including wing).

Remarks. This species is similar to S. kerzhneri Dworakowska (2006) but differs in having the aedeagus with one long thornlike, and a pair of bifurcate, apical processes; the aedeagal shaft C-shaped, curved distinctly, with a pair of toothlike processes at the base ( Figs 31, 32 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ); and the connective central lobe large and much longer than the lateral arms ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 26 – 33 ).

Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Guilin.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Salka

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