Tautoneura polymitusa Oh & Jung, 2016

Tóth, Mária, Orosz, András & Rédei, Dávid, 2017, Another alien on the horizon? First European record of Tautoneura polymitusa, an East Asian leafhopper (Hemiptera: Auchenorryncha: Cicadellidae), Zootaxa 4311 (1), pp. 137-144 : 139-141

Tautoneura polymitusa Oh & Jung, 2016

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Tautoneura polymitusa Oh & Jung in Oh et al., 2016: 198 . Holotype: ♂, Korea, Daejeon, Gung-dong; deposited in Chungnam National University.

Diagnostic characters. Body length 2.4–2.6 mm (♂) / 2.5–2.7 mm (♀). Colour. Ground colour of dorsum of head, pronotum, scutellum, and fore wings whitish, with complex ochraceous markings surrounded by darker boundary ( Figs 1–3 ); frontoclypeus pale yellowish, anteclypeus darker, lora yellow; ventral surface of thorax and pregenital abdomen brownish yellow; terminalia yellowish brown; legs pale yellow; abdominal sternites and tergites of female dark brown.

Male genitalia. Base of pygophore and dorsal surface of genital plates of female with scattered groups of macrochetae, caudal margin of pygophore with minute bristles ( Fig. 6 ); pair of small processes on dorsal, inner portion of pygophore directed ventrad, terminal portion sharply tapering ( Figs. 4, 6 ); stylus narrow, its distal portion provided with longer, curved process and with short process at base ( Fig. 7 ); connective with pair of well developed lateral processes, middle lobe short, rounded ( Fig. 7 ); aedeagus in resting position directed dorsad, almost perpendicularly to body axis; proximal half relatively broad, then abruptly narrowed, terminal portion posteriad of orifice narrow, sides subparallel; with two pairs of processes, both situated proximad of orifice: longer, narrow pair directed obliquely laterad, and short, denticle-like pair situated distad of first pair, immediately proximad of orifice ( Figs. 4, 5, 8 ).

Material examined. HUNGARY. Budapest: Káposztásmegyer , 47.586°N 19.113°E, vii–xi.2012, trapped inside lampshade, leg. L. Ronkay & M. Tóth (6 ♂♂ 4 ♀♀), same locality, at UV light, iv.2013 (3 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀) ; same but 19.viii.2014 (9 ♂♂ 16 ♀♀), same but 10.xi.2015 (5 ♂♂); Kecskemét, rest area on motorway M5, 46.847°N 19.665°E, 7.viii.2012, beaten from Ulmus sp., leg. B. Kiss et al. (1 ♀) ; Örkény , 18.ix.2012, rest area on motorway M5, 47.139°N 19.473°E, beaten from Ulmus sp., leg. B. Kiss et al. (1 ♀). New record to Hungary. Voucher specimens are deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 3. Tautoneura polymitusa, male. Fig 1, dorsal view; Fig 2, anterior portion of body, dorsal view; Fig 3, left fore wing. Scale bars in mm.

FIGURES 4 – 8. Tautoneura polymitusa, terminalia of male. Fig. 4, terminalia in posteroventral view (SEM, 250 ×); Fig. 5, aedeagus in rest inside of pygophore, posteroventral view (SEM, 900 ×); Fig. 6, pygophore, left lateral view; Fig 7, left style and connective, dorsal view; Fig. 8, aedeagus, right lateral view. Scale bars for ink drawings in mm.