Maiestas crura, 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 : 25-26

Maiestas crura sp. nov.

( Fig. 23 ; Plate IV: H)

Length. Male: 3.9mm.

Stramineous. Face stramineous, frontoclypeus with fuscous arcs. Leg marked with dark brown. Forewing light brown.

Forewing macropterous, inner anteapical cell open basally.

Male genitalia. Subgenital plate very long, subtriangular, lateral margin almost straight, apex acute ( Fig. 23 B); style preapical lobe short, apophysis with preapical heel, laterally curved ( Fig. 23 C); connective slightly longer than aedeagus, aedeagal shaft in lateral view sinuate, slightly broader basally and tapered to obliquely truncate apex, the latter with ventral margin serrate ( Figs 23 D, 23E).

Material examined. Holotype: ɗ, China, Yunnan Prov., Menglun, 9 May 1991, coll. Wang Yinglun & Tian Rungang ( NWAFU).

Remarks. This species closely resembles remigia , but the subgenital plate is triangular ( Fig. 23 B) and the apex of style apophysis foot-like ( Fig. 23 C).

Etymology. The species name is based on the foot-like apex of the style apophysis.

Figures

FIGURE 23. M. crura sp. nov. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: subgenital plate, ventral view; C: style, dorsal view; D & E: aedeagus and connective, dorsal and lateral view.