Salka guilinensis, Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Song, Yue-Hua & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Seven new species of the leafhopper genus Salka Dworakowska (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China, Zootaxa 3430, pp. 50-60 : 55-56

Salka guilinensis sp. nov.

( Figs 26–33 )

Description. Externally resembles S. fanjinga sp. nov., but pronotum with single transverse oval impression medially; scutellum lighter, brown ( Fig. 26 ). Face yellowish; postclypeus and basal part of anteclypeus brown ( Fig. 27 ). Male abdominal apodemes not exceeding 3rd sternite ( Fig. 28 ).

Male genitalia: Pygofer with two dorsal macrosetae. Anal tube with pair of bifurcate basal processes. Subgenital plate long, with 3 macrosetae in oblique row extended posteromesad from margin and many rigid setae forming continuous row along upper margin ( Fig. 29 ). Style apex expanded and truncate, preapical lobe well developed ( Fig. 30 ). Aedeagal shaft with single long and pair of bifurcate apical processes, two small short tooth-like processes arising from base of shaft dorso-laterally; preatrium small and dorsal apodeme long and slender; gonopore apical ( Figs 31, 32 ). Connective Y-shaped, with central lobe large and two lateral arms small and sclerotized ( Fig. 33 ).

Specimen examined. Holotype: 3, CHINA, Guangxi Prov., Guilin, 30-VII-2007, coll. Zehong Meng. Paratype: 1♀, same data as holotype.

Measurement. Male length 3.6 mm (including wing).

Remarks. This species is similar to S. kerzhneri Dworakowska (2006) but differs in having the aedeagus with one long thornlike, and a pair of bifurcate, apical processes; the aedeagal shaft C-shaped, curved distinctly, with a pair of toothlike processes at the base ( Figs 31, 32 ); and the connective central lobe large and much longer than the lateral arms ( Fig. 33 ).

Etymology. The species is named for the type locality, Guilin.

Figures

FIGURES 26 – 33. Salka guilinensis sp. nov. 26. Head and thorax, dorsal view. 27. Face. 28. Abdominal apodemes. 29. Pygofer, lateral view. 30. Style, lateral view. 31. Aedeagus and connective, lateral view. 32. Aedeagus, ventral view. 33. Connective.