Agnesiella (D.) glabra Huang & Zhang, 2022

Wang, Junjie, Zhang, Yalin & Huang, Min, 2022, Taxonomic study of the leafhopper genus Agnesiella Dworakowska (Hemiptera Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, with descriptions of 13 new species, Zootaxa 5094 (2), pp. 201-233 : 222

Agnesiella (D.) glabra Huang & Zhang sp. nov.

( Figs 33, 37, 41, 45 , 130–136 )

Measurement. Male, 3.81 mm (including wings).

Body yelllowish ( Figs 33, 37 ). Face dark brown near clypeal sulcus, brownish transverse streaks on beige frontoclypeal area, most part of anteclypeus brownish, lorum dark brown and gena black-brown ( Fig. 45 ). Pronotum with a central oval patch and 2 pairs of lateral patches black-brown, between central and lateral patches with 2 black-brown patches connecting with lateral lower patches. Scutellum reddish brown with triangles black-brown ( Fig. 41 ). Forewing yellowish with 2 broad bands, one at base dark brown and the other near cross vein brownish; a testaceous area surrounded by distal end of brochosome field, ScP+RA and R vein; brochosome field yellowish ( Figs 33, 37 , 121 ).

Abdominal apodemes reaching center of 6th abdominal sternite ( Fig. 131 ). Male pygofer side with a band of fine moderate setae and a rigid microsetae band near posterior margin; posterior margin slightly protruding and sclerotized with a long digitiform appendage curved dorsad ( Fig. 132 ). Subgenital plate with some long fine setae terminally on outer side and a small protrusion at bend ( Fig. 133 ). Paramere with caudal end bifurcate ( Figs 133, 134 ). Connective with stem nearly as long as lateral arms and central lobe indistinct ( Fig. 133 ). Aedeagal shaft slen- der without lamellar ventral appendage ( Figs 135, 136 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Sichuan Province, Moxi , 1600m, Alnus nepalensis , 5-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratype: 1♂ 5♀, same data as holotype .

Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “glabra, referring to the smooth aedeagal shaft lacking appendages ( Fig. 135 ).

Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (Draberiella) innota , but differs in the forewing with a dark brown patch at the base ( Figs 37 , 130 ), in the posterior margin of the male pygofer side slightly protruding ( Fig. 132 ) and in the end of the subgenital plate some long fine lateral setae ( Fig. 133 ).

Figures

FIGURES 33–48. Habitus (dorsal view and lateral view), crown, pronotum and scutellum (dorsal view), and face. 33, 37, 41, 45, A. (D.) glabra Huang & Zhang sp. nov.; 34, 38, 42, 46, A. (D.) exigua Huang & Zhang sp. nov.; 35, 39, 43, 47, A. (D.) mitrata Huang & Zhang sp. nov.; 36, 40, 44, 48, A. (D.) apiculata Huang & Zhang sp. nov. Scale bars = 1 mm (33–40); Scale bars = 0.2 mm (41–48).

FIGURES 130–136. A. (D.) glabra Huang & Zhang sp. nov. 130. forewing; 131. abdominal apodemes; 132. male pygofer side, lateral view; 133. paramere, connective, subgenital plate, dorsal view; 134. caudal end of paramere; 135. aedeagus, lateral view; 136. aedeagus, posterior view.

FIGURES 114–121. A. (D.) longisagittata Huang & Zhang sp. nov. 114. forewing; 115. male pygofer side, lateral view; 116. hind part of male pygofer side, lateral view; 117. paramere, connective, subgenital plate and sternite IX, dorsal view; 118. end of subgenital plate, dorsal view; 119. caudal end of paramere, dorsal view; 120. aedeagus, lateral view; 121. aedeagus, posterior view.