Senebra bracteiformis Kang & Zhang, 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 : 558-559

Senebra bracteiformis Kang & Zhang sp. nov. ( Fig. 5 )

Description. Length of male 3.83mm. Crown dark yellow, anterior margin bluntly rounded ( Figs 5C, 5D ). Pronotum greenish brown, anterior margin yellow; triangles yellow ( Figs 5A, 5B ). Forewing yellowish green in basal half, infuscate in apical half ( Fig. 5E ). Hind wing infuscate with brown veins ( Fig. 5F ).

Male pygofer side bifurcate apically in lateral view, dorsal part sharply elongated with thin setae, ventral part relatively shorter covered with small teeth ( Fig. 5I ). Paramere elongate with apex bluntly rounded ( Fig. 5K ). Connective broad V-shaped ( Fig. 5J ). Aedeagus with pair of large bract-like lateral processes basally longer than shaft, preatrium lamellar and developed, dorsal apodeme thin; shaft slim and simple, both preatrium and dorsal apodeme curved forward; gonopore apical ( Figs 5L, 5M ).

Material examined. Holotype. ♂, China, Yunnan Province, Jinghong City, Mengyang Town , alt. 750m, 7- VI-1991, coll. Yinglun Wang, Rungang Tian. Paratypes. 8♂, same data as holotype ; 1♂, Mengyang Town , Wild Elephant Valley, 30-VIII-2010, coll. Juan Han, trapped by light ; 1♂, Mengzhe Town , Mandian Village, 30-V-2022, coll. Xian Zhou, trapped by light ; 11♂, Mandian Village , Naban River Nature Reserve, 1-VI-2022, coll. Xian Zhou, trapped by light ; 6♂, Naban River Nature Reserve , 100°40′31.69′′E, 22°7′40.49′′N, alt. 700m, 1-VI-2022, coll. Junjie Wang.

Etymology. The species name is the Latin word “bracteiformis (bract-like)”, referring to the 2 large bract-like aedeagal processes.

Note. The 2 new species of this new genus is similar to each other in body size and head pattern, but S. bracteiformis has the body color lighter and aedeagal processes bract-like, S. scapiformis has the body color darker and the aedeagal processes rod-shaped.

Figures

FIGURE 5. Senebra bracteiformis Kang & Zhang sp. nov. A. dorsal habitus; B. lateral habitus; C. head, ventral view; D. head, anterior view; E. forewing; F. hind wing; G. abdominal apodemes; H. genital capsule; I. pygofer side, lateral view; J. connective. K. paramere; L. aedeagus, posterior view; M. aedeagus, lateral view. Scale bars = 1mm (A, B); 0.5mm (C, D).