Pediopsis bannaensis, Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2015

Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, New records and synonymy in the genus Macropsidius (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Macropsinae) from China and description of a new Pediopsis species, Zootaxa 4021 (3), pp. 487-492 : 488-490

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.3.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6104338
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/02798679-D74B-0104-FF5A-DDDEFFD7F87D
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scientific name	Pediopsis bannaensis
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pediopsis bannaensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 29–39 View FIGURES 29 – 39 )

Description: Length. ♂4.3mm.

Coloration. Body light brown ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Face brown, with two black spots close to upper margin, dorsad of ocelli ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Pronotum marked with fuscous lines and dots, pair of round black spots on anterior margin, behind eyes ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Scutellum brown, bearing prominent red brown angles and median longitudinal black band, pair of black spots upon transverse depression ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Forewing light brown, veins fuscous ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ).

Morphology. Head including eyes almost equal in width to pronotum. Pronotum strongly produced above head. Scutellum longer than pronotum, with curved suture ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Face longer than wide, densely punctate. Ocelli situated more than 5 times closer to adjacent eyes than to each other ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Forewing with two anteapical cells ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, slightly elongate, caudally truncated. Subgenital plate long, slightly incurved, with irregular distal row of setae ( Fig. 33 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Connective with anterior fingerlike protrusion in middle between dorsally bent arms ( Figs. 37, 38 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Aedeagus strongly tapered from wide base to narrow apex in lateral aspect, gonopore apical ( Figs. 34, 35 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Style parallel-margined, with tapered end ( Fig. 36 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ). Dorsal connective bow-shaped, with footlike anterior processes at middle part ( Fig. 39 View FIGURES 29 – 39 ).

Female unknown.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, China: Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 570m, 28 November 2009, coll. Tang Guo ( NWAFU); Paratypes: 1♂, same data as holotype; 2♂♂, Thailand: Sakon Nakhon, Phu Phan NP Crk, N16°55.789´E103°54.158´, 13–19 June 2006, coll. Winlon Khongnara ( INHS); 1♂, Thailand: Chiang Mai, Doi Chiang Dao WS Nature Trail, N19°24.187´E98°55.312´, 31 July–7 August 2007, coll. Songkranl Jagsu & Apichat Watwanich ( INHS).

Diagnosis. The new species resembles Pediopsis malayana Tishetshkin in the shape of the dorsal connective, but the later has wide and short aedeagus that is abruptly bent in the distal half in lateral view and constricted medially in posterior view. The body coloration and the shape of the style are also different.

Etymology. This new species epithet refers to the type locality, Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province.

FIGURES 1–16. (1–8) M. duuschulus n. rec.; (9–16) M. niger n. rec.; (1, 5, 9, 13) Body, dorsal view; (2, 6, 10, 14) Habitus, lateral view; (3, 7, 11, 15) Head and pronotum, dorsal view; (4, 8, 12, 16) Face.

FIGURES 17–28. (17–22) M. duuschulus n. rec.; (23–28) M. niger n. rec.; (17, 20, 23, 26) Aedeagus, ventral view; (18, 21, 24, 27) Aedeagus, lateral view; (19, 22, 25, 28) Style, lateral view.