Tautoneura multimaculata, Song, Yuehua & Li, Zizhong, 2008

Song, Yuehua & Li, Zizhong, 2008, Notes on Chinese species of the genus Tautoneura Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), with descriptions of two new species, Zootaxa 1769, pp. 60-68 : 63-65

Tautoneura multimaculata sp. nov.

( Figs. 1–10 )

Morphology: Head ( Fig. 1 ) long, slightly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin bluntly produced. Coronal suture distinct, about 1/3 of vertex length. Vertex and pronotum ( Fig. 1 ) yellowish with orange markings. Eyes black. Pronotum ( Fig. 1 ) broad, anterior margin rounded and posterior margin shallowly concave; scutellum light yellow, nearly triangular, little shorter than median length of pronotum. Basal triangles deeply brownishyellow, with transverse impression just anterior to oval spot. Face ( Fig. 2 ) brownish yellow, long and narrow, frontoclypeal area gently swollen, with a yellowish transverse streak near vertex anterior margin; anteclypeus very broad, nearly pentagonal. Abdomen dirty yellow. Forewing ( Fig. 9 ) slim, with 4 apical cells (1st largest; 2nd slender; 4th smallest, nearly semicircular) and many orange-yellow markings, some parts of that with red spots or markings; hindwing ( Fig. 10 ) transparent, transverse veins widely separated.

Male genitalia: Abdominal apodemes ( Fig. 8 ) finger-like, extended to 4th sternite. Pygofer ( Fig. 3 ) broad, with four macrosetae, a few microsetae; dorsal appendage large, long, dorsocaudally acute. Subgenital plate with three macrosetae medially, laterally expanded, with several peg-like setae. Aedeagus ( Figs. 4, 5 ) with pair of slender points apically and one irregular dorsal apodeme; preatrium swollen in ventral view; base of shaft with small lateral lobes; gonopore ( Fig. 4 ) ventral, subapical. Connective ( Fig. 7 ) nearly Y-shaped, but with lamellate process between two arms (or M-shaped). Anal tube appendage hook-like at apex.

Measurement: Body length males 3.0–3.2 mm, females 3.1–3.3 mm.

Material examined: Holotype male: CHINA, Guizhou: Guiyang, Huaxi, 26°35'N 106°42'E, 1000 m, 15– VI–1979, coll. Zizhong Li. Paratypes: two males, four females, same data as holotype.

Remarks: This new species resembles T. incisa Dworakowska (1980) , sharing with the latter the similar crown and the expanded nearly pentagonal preatrium of the aedeagus ( Fig. 4 ). It can be distinguished from T.

incisa and other species of the genus by its unique aedeagus ( Figs. 4, 5 ) bearing a pair of slender apically points and an irregular dorsal apodeme.

Etymology: The name is derived from the Latin prefix “multi-” (several, a few) plus “macula” (spot, mark), which refers to the orange markings on the pronotum ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Tautoneura multimaculata n. sp. 1. Head and thorax, dorsal view. 2. Face. 3. Pygofer, lateral view. 4. Aedeagus, ventral view. 5. Aedeagus, lateral view. 6. Style. 7. Connective. 8. Abdominal apodemes. 9. Forewing. 10. Hindwing.