Maiestas cultella, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 21-22

Maiestas cultella sp. nov.

( Fig. 20 ; Plate III: A & B; Plate V: N; Plate VI: M)

Length. 3.1–3.7mm.

Light brown. Vertex light yellow with six small, dark brown marks on anterior margin, brown longitudinal band midway between eye and midline, eye from brown to dark (Plate III: A & B); frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Pronotum light yellow with six brown longitudinal stripes (Plate III: A & B). Leg marked with dark brown. Forewing sordid, cells bordered fuscous, brown patch on central anteapical cell (Plate III: A & B).

Forewing macropterous or submacropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate subtriangular, apex acute ( Fig. 20 B); style preapical lobe obtusely triangular shaped, apophysis slim, tapered to acute apex, slightly laterally curved ( Fig. 20 C); connective longer than aedeagus, aedeagal shaft very short and robust with some small inconspicuous spines basally, gonopore large ( Figs 20 D, 20E).

Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternum as in Plate V: N and Plate VI: M.

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Hainan Prov., Bawangling, 25 May 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin, at light. Paratypes: China, Hainan Prov.: 4ΨΨ, Xinglong, 25, 26 April 1983, at light; 7ɗɗ, 13ΨΨ, Liangyuan, 31 May, 1, 2, 15 June 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin (1ɗ, 1Ψ, BMNH); 1Ψ, Qiongzhong, 4 June 1983; 1ɗ, Mt. Jianfengling, 25 August 2002, coll. Wang Zongqing, Che Yanli & Wang Peiming; 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Mt. Jianfengling, 940m, 7 June 2003, coll. Duan Yani, at light; 1ɗ, Mt. Diaolue, 2 June 2003, coll. Duan Yani. All NWAFU, except where indicated.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the obtusely triangular shaped style preapical lobe ( Fig. 20 C) and very short and robust aedeagal shaft ( Figs 20 D, 20E).

Etymology. This name is based on the knife-like shape of the aedeagus in lateral view.

Figures

FIGURE 20. M. cultella sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: style, dorsal view; D & E: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view; F: valve, ventral view.