Hephathus freyi ( Fieber, 1868 )

Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, First record of the genus Hephathus Ribaut (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) from China, Zootaxa 3986 (5), pp. 569-576 : 570-575

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.5.4

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6110513

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scientific name

Hephathus freyi ( Fieber, 1868 )
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Hephathus freyi ( Fieber, 1868) View in CoL n. rec.

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 A–C, 2, 4C–D)

Description. Coloration. Body yellowish brown ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A). Face with six black spots in central part ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 C). Pronotum brown with dense dark brown striations and with two black spots on fore margin behind eyes. Scutellum yellowish, with black triangular spots in both lateral corners and with two round black spots in apical half on both sides of midline ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B).

Morphology. Body form typically wedge-shaped ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 A). Head narrower than pronotum, crown shorter in middle than next to eyes. Pronotum approximately oval, anterior margin more prominent, slightly concave posteriorly. Mesonotum small, triangular ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 B). Face across eyes narrower than long, distance between ocelli slightly larger than distance between ocellus to adjacent eye, lora large, clypellus nearly oblong ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 C). Forewing with 3 anteapical cells. Hind tibial chaetotaxy PD10, AD7, AV5.

Male genitalia. Pygofer nearly triangular, subgenital plates long, with marginal setae ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 A). Aedeagal shaft long, abruptly upturned dorsally; shaft slender in caudal view, with parallel lateral margins and rounded apex; gonopore subapical ( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 B–C). Connective stout, with broad fingerlike protrusion in middle, both lateral arms twisted to dorsum ( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 D–E). Style slender, abruptly bent in basal 1/3, gradually tapering distally, with slightly reflexed blunt tip ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 F).

Measurement. Length: ♂, 2.9–3.5mm; ♀, 3.4–4.0mm.

Material examined. 3♂♂, 7♀♀, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Yining County, 700m, 29 July 2006, coll. Dai Wu ( NWAFU).

Distribution. China: Xinjiang Autonomous Region (new record), Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Romania, Algeria, Central Asia.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Tribe

Macropsinae

Genus

Hephathus

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