Levigata arborea sp. nov.

(Figs 2 A–O, 12E–H)

Type locality. China, Yunnan province, Jinghong city environs, Bubeng village.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁, CHINA: YUNNAN: Jinghong, Bubeng village, 4.ix.2010, light trap, Meng Zhang leg. (NWAU) . PARATYPES: 16 ♁♁, same data as holotype; 16 ♁♁, same data as holotype except Juan Han leg.; 2♁♁, same data as holotype except 3.ix.2010; 9♁♁, Jinghong, Yexianggu, 30.viii.2010, light trap, Meng Zhang leg. (all NWAU).

Description. Ground color (Figs 12 E–H) dirty tawny, eyes black, vertex dirty pale-yellow, with blurry orange markings and small black patch in middle of transition from crown to face; frontoclypeal area dark with edges lighter, anteclypeus brown basomedially, lorum and gena pale. Pronotum with large black medial patch on fore margin. Scutum and scutellum off-white, black at tip. Forewing brown, with several lighter areas.

Abdominal apodemes 2S (Fig. 2E) extremely small, apodemes 3T (Figs 2C, D) variable in size among individuals.

Male terminalia.Anal tube (Fig. 2F) weakly sclerotized basally, with short appendage (Fig. 2G), bent in right angle, apex blunt. Pygofer side (Fig. 2F) nearly rectangular, hind margin truncate; dorsal appendage (Figs 2F, G) short, slightly curved ventrad. Subgenital plate (Figs 2I, J) with membranous dorsal side wider than sclerotized ventral side in apical part, with 2–3 macrosetae. Style (Figs 2K, L) with apex lance-shaped in lateral view, curved ventrad. Connective (Fig. 2M) broad, central lobe slim and long. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 2N, O) with lateral surfaces well sclerotized, bifurcated both basally and apically in ventral view, two sides only fused at the connection with preatrium, with membranous inner side and apical part; dorsal apodeme wide in ventral view; preatrium about twice longer than shaft; gonopore not delimited.

Measurements. Male body length 2.85–2.90 mm.

Etymology. The specific epithet is the Latin adjective “ arboreus ” which means “resembling a tree”, referring to the tree-like aedeagal shaft in the ventral view.

Distribution. So far only known from Yunnan province in the south of China.