Bhatia longiradiata, Yu & Qu & Dai & Yang, 2019

Yu, Zhou, Qu, Ling, Dai, Ren-Huai & Yang, Mao-Fa, 2019, Key to species of the leafhopper genus Bhatia Distant, 1908 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 4624 (1), pp. 142-146 : 143

Bhatia longiradiata sp. nov.

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Measurement. Length (including tegmen): (holotype), 7.0 mm.

Description. Body pattern yellowish brown. Head with eyes faint brown ( Fig. 1c ); ocelli separated by about 4x distance from ocelli to adjacent eyes ( Fig. 1a ); antenna situated near upper corner of eye; anteclypeus flat and broad at base ( Fig. 1c ). Pronotum shorter than crown, with pair of black spots submarginally and straight lateral carinae. Scutellum yellowish with pair of semicircular brown markings; suture distinct and arched forward. Forewings opaque, veins yellow and anterior margin yellowish ( Fig. 1a ). Hind femur with apical setae 2+2+1.

Male genitalia. Pygofer side rounded with numerous setae, with notch in middle of ventral margin ( Fig. 1d ). Valve nearly pentagonal. Subgenital plate broad at base, narrowing at middle, without macrosetae, only with few marginal fine setae ( Fig. 1e ). Connective short and H-shaped ( Fig. 1f ), slightly curved in profile ( Fig. 1g ). Style slender, broad at base, curved laterally and acute to apex ( Fig. 1h ). Aedeagal shaft tubulose, short moderately, curved dorsad with single elongate ventral processes in lateral view, forked and expanded in middle, extending to approximately 2x length of aedeagal shaft in dorsal view ( Fig. 1i ). Gonopore apical.

Material examined

Holotype, ♂, China: Guangdong province, Huizhou city, Mt. Xiangtou , 18. V. 2013, collected by Meng Jiao & Bin Li. Paratype, 1♂, China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Rongshui village, Yangmei depression, 12. VII. 2015, collected by Hongping Zhan.

Distribution. China (Guangdong, Guangxi).

Etymology. The new species name is derived from the Latin word “ longiradiate ”, referring to the aedeagal has a elongate forked processes.

Remarks. This species is similar to B. satsumensis but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagus shaft without processes and with the shaft short and triangular in dorsal view.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Bhatia longiradiata sp. nov.. a–c. Male holotype. a. Dorsal view. b. Lateral view. c. Face. d–j. Male genitalia. d. Pygofer, lateral view. e. Valve and subgenital plate, ventral view. f. Connective, ventral view. g. Connective, lateral view. h. Style, ventral view. i. Aedeagus, dorsal view. j. Aedeagus, ventral view. Scale. a–b. 1.0mm. c. 0.5mm.