Senebra scapiformis 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 : 559

Senebra scapiformis Kang & Zhang sp. nov. ( Fig. 6 )

Description. Length of male 3.60mm. Crown dark yellow, anterior margin bluntly rounded ( Figs 6C, 6D ). Pronotum brown, anterior margin yellow; triangles brown ( Figs 6A, 6B ). Forewing yellowish brown in basal half, infuscate in apical half. Hind wing infuscate with brown veins.

Male pygofer side with ventral process short, posterior part with setae and small teeth ( Fig. 6E ). Paramere elongate with apex sharp, expanded preapically ( Fig. 6G ). Connective V-shaped ( Fig. 6H ). Aedeagus with pair of large rod-shaped lateral processes basally which longer and thicker than shaft, preatrium well-developed, dorsal apodeme thin; shaft slim, simple and slightly curved laterally; gonopore apical ( Figs 6I, 6J ).

Material examined. Holotype. ♂, China, Hunnan Province, Chenzhou City, Suxian Mountain , 18-VIII-1985, coll. Yalin Zhang, Yonghui Chai. Paratypes. 3♀, same data as holotype ; 14♂, Hubei Province, Xingdou Mountain National Nature Reserve , 2022, coll. Juan Zhou ; 1♂, Seven Sisters Mountain National Nature Reserve , alt. 800m, 25-VI-2022, coll. Juan Zhou ; 1♂, Shennonjia National Nature Reserve , information incomplete .

Etymology. The species name is the Latin word “scapiformis (rod-shaped)”, referring to the 2 large rod-shaped aedeagal processes.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Senebra scapiformis Kang & Zhang sp. nov. A. dorsal habitus; B. lateral habitus; C. head, ventral view; D. head, anterior view; E. pygofer side, lateral view; F. subgenital plate; G. paramere; H. connective; I. aedeagus, lateral view; J. aedeagus, posterior view. Scale bars = 1mm (A, B); 0.5mm (C, D).