Lambirocerus cycloformulus, Xue & Zhang, 2018

Xue, Qingquan & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, Two new genera and species of the leafhopper tribe Idiocerini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and redescription of the type species of Paraidioscopus, Zootaxa 4472 (1), pp. 185-193 : 187

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.1.11

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:71FB3EF8-5ED8-4BE5-8946-C44BB9949088

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5957059

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CA1449-FFE1-FFB5-E0AD-FF3BDA6DFCA9

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scientific name

Lambirocerus cycloformulus
status

sp. nov.

Lambirocerus cycloformulus View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 1 View FIGURE 1 , 4 View FIGURE 4 )

Description. Length (including wings): male 4.0 mm.

Crown yellowish. Face basally, frontoclypeus and anteclypeus yellow; anteclypeus brownish apically; eyes black; ocelli dark brown; lora and gena brown ( Fig. 1D View FIGURE 1 ). Pronotum mainly yellowish, lateral and posterior area dark brown. Scutellum yellow, mesoscutum brownish, basal triangles dark brown ( Fig. 1C View FIGURE 1 ). Mesepimeron and legs ochraceous, hind leg macrosetae reddish brown. Forewing brownish, with dark brown oblique macula near midlength of costal margin bordered by broad yellow areas, clavus with large yellow transcommissural spot bordered with dark brown.

Male genitalia. Pygofer ventral margin hook-like apically. Subgenital plate shorter than pygofer, with several long fine setae on dorsal and ventral margin ( Fig. 4A View FIGURE 4 ). Connective with high medial longitudinal keel. Style apex broad and digitiform, with few short setae on dorsal margin, lateral surface concave subapically ( Fig. 4I View FIGURE 4 ). Aedeagal shaft with small triangular subapical process on dorsal surface in lateral view, apex with pair of short, slender processes extended distad and slightly laterad, dorsal apodeme ovoid, broader than shaft in ventral view, base acutely pointed in ventral view ( Figs. 4E–F View FIGURE 4 ).

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the large transcommissural spot on the forewing.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Malaysia, Sarawak (Borneo), Lambir Hills Nat`I Park, S Miri, N4°11′53.9″ E114°02′31.4″, 2006. x.12–23. J.R. Cryan & J.M. Urban, Hg vapor light ( INHS).

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Lambirocerus

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