Maiestas pileiformis, Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011

Zhang, Yalin & Duan, Yani, 2011, Review of the Deltocephalus group of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, Zootaxa 2870, pp. 1-47 : 20-21

Maiestas pileiformis sp. nov.

( Fig. 19 ; Plate IV: G)

Length. Male: 2.6mm.

Ochraceous. Vertex with sinuate oblique line on either side of median line on antero-lateral margin, patch on either side of median line (Plate IV: G). Pronotum with three longitudinal stripes on either side of median line (Plate IV: G). Basal triangles on scutellum orange (Plate IV: G). Forewing veins margined by brown.

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell closed basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate subtriangular, apex acute ( Fig. 19 C); style, preapical lobe short and broad, apophysis short and slim, digitate, slightly laterally curved ( Fig. 19 D); aedeagal shaft tapering to apex in dorsal view, apex slightly curved dorsally, with ventral triangular membranous area in lateral view ( Figs 19 E, 19F).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Hainan Prov., Liangyuan, 29 May 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin, at light ( NWAFU).

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by short and slim style apophysis ( Fig. 19 D) and the ventral triangular membranous area at the apex of the aedeagus ( Fig. 19 F).

Etymology. This name is based on the triangular membranous area on the apex of the aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURE 19. M. pileiformis sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: valve, ventral view; C: subgenital plate, ventral view; D: style, dorsal view; E & F: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.