Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) amplificata Li, Dai & Li

Li, Hu, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2016, Additions to the leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) Matsumura, 1912 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) from Southern China, Zootaxa 4150 (3), pp. 341-350 : 344-346

Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) amplificata Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.

( Figs 4–6 , 20–27 , 37)

Body length (including tegmina). ♂, 4.17 mm.

Holotype description. Head and thorax (color). Body color ( Figs 4–6 ) greenish to dark brown. Crown greenish; face greenish with occasional yellowish tinge; eyes black. Pronotum gradually yellowish-green moving to black from front to back. Mesonotum and scutellum black. Forewings dark brown, veins darker. Legs more greenish.

Morphology. Body form ( Figs 4–5 ) relatively stout; head, face, pronotum, and scutellum obviously striated. Head across eyes as broad as pronotum; crown parallel-margined. Face ( Fig. 6 ) across eyes as wide as long; distance between ocelli about 12 × longer than distance from ocellus to adjacent eye; lora and frons with inconspicuous sutures between them. Pronotum ( Fig. 4 ) 2.0 × broader than long, striations on surface oblique. Mesonotum and scutellum ( Fig. 4 ) 1.3 × wider than long. Forewings ( Fig. 5 ) opaque, venation slightly prominent. Hind tibia with 9–11 macrosetae on PD row, 7 on AD row, 5 on AV row.

Male genitalia. Pygofer ( Fig. 20 ) shoelike in lateral view, front margin strongly excavated medially, lobe elongate caudally, with dorsal cleft separating distal lobe from base, ventral margin tapered dorsocaudally, each distal half slightly elongated and produced into about 5 small teeth, dorsal margin prominent medially, with blunt tip. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 20 ), slender, with row of sparse ventral setae and several longer distal setae. Style ( Fig. 22 ) slender, weakly angled on basal 3/5, slightly inflated subapically, with round tip pointed dorsad, stem nearly parallel margined, outer margin with few scattered setae. Dorsal connective ( Fig. 23 ) simple, S shaped, with short apophysis medially, tip acute and twisted caudoventrally. Aedeagus ( Figs 24–25 ) shaft slender, without basal processes, in ventral aspect with apex expanded laterally, lamelliform, with lateral tips subacute, apical margin slightly emarginate medially; in lateral aspect, aedeagal shaft broad, bent dorsally, tapered to end, dorsal apodeme relatively well developed, about 3/5 length of shaft; gonopore subapical. Connective ( Figs 26–27 ) typical, longer than wide, with fingerlike process in middle of anterior margin longer than lateral lobes.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Guangdong Province, Maoming City, Dawuling Natural Reserve , 20. IV. 2013, collected by Jiao Meng and Li Bin.

Distribution. China (Guangdong Province) (Fig. 37).

Remarks. The new species is similar to P. (P.) bispinata Li, Dai & Li, 2012 and P. (P.) nigrolabium Li, Dai & Li, 2012 in body appearance and color, similar to P. (P.) satsumensis ( Matsumura, 1912) in the shape of the dorsal connective, and similar to P. (P.) jingdongensis Zhang, 2010 and P. (P.) tishetshkini Li, Dai & Li, 2013 in the ventral teeth on the pygofer margins, but can be distinguished from all of them by the slender aedeagal shaft with bilaterally expanded apex, and combined features of the pygofer and dorsal connective.

Etymology. The new species name is derived from the Latin words “ amplificatus ” and refers to the enlarged apex of the aedeagal shaft in ventral view.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Male species of Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides): 1 – 3. P. (P.) alba Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.; 4 – 6. P. (P.) amplificata Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.; 7 – 9. P. (P.) longiapophysis Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.. 1, 4, 7. Habitus, dorsal view; 2, 5, 8. Same, lateral view; 3, 6, 9. Face.

FIGURES 20 – 27. Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) amplificata Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.. 20. Male pygofer lobe and subgenital plate, lateral view; 21. Pygofer margins, ventral view; 22. Style, dorsal view; 23. Dorsal connective, lateral view; 24. Aedeagus, lateral view; 25. Same, ventral view; 26. Connective, dorsal view; 27. Same, lateral view.