Masamia huweii, Lee & Emery, 2013

Lee, Young June & Emery, David, 2013, New genera and species of Leptopsaltriini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from India and Tibet, with the descriptions of five new subtribes, Zoosystema 35 (4), pp. 525-535 : 531-532

Masamia huweii n. sp.

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype: 1 ♂, “TIBETSE- Motuo Co ShangChayu , Ciba 2500m 2-3 July 2012 ” (printed white label) . Paratypes: 3 ♂♂, “TIBET-SE-Motuo Co ShangChayu ; 2500m 2-3July2012 leg. H.Wei ” (printed white labels) ; 1 ♀, “TIBETSE- Motuo Co 80 Km Bomi ; 2230m 2-8July2012 leg. H.Wei ” (printed white label) .

ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named for Hu Wei who collected the specimens used in this paper.

MEASUREMENTS (N = 4 MALES AND 1 FEMALE). — Median length of body: male 34.2 (32.8-35.6), female 25.2. Median length of head and thorax together: male 12.7 (12.4-12.9), female 10.7. Median length of abdomen: male 21.5 (21.1-23.1), female 14.5. Width of head including eyes: male 7.5 (7.4-7.6), female 7.0. Width of mesonotum: male 7.8 (7.7-7.8), female 6.8. Width of posterior margin of abdominal tergite 3: male 11.0 (10.8-11.3), female 9.8. Length of fore wing: 40.3 (38.6- 41.6), female 39.8. Width of fore wing: 12.3 (12.2-12.4), female 12.2. Wing span: 91.0 (89.6-93.8), female 88.2.

DESCRIPTION OF MALE

Head

Head including eyes slightly narrower than mesonotum; greenish brown with a large median black to fuscous spot broadly enclosing ocelli, not reaching frontoclypeal suture or posterior margin of head, and a pair of large fuscous patch between the median spot and eye, extending over supra-antennal plates. Gena dull green with a large but indistinct fuscous spot between eye and postclypeus. Postclypeus moderately swollen; dull green with fuscous to dark brown fasciae along transverse grooves, of which medial ends are mostly connected to each other, and large postero-median dark brown patch. Anteclypeus dull green with large fuscous patch on each side. Rostrum ochraceous, but black apically; with tip slightly passing posterior margin of hind coxae.

Thorax

Pronotum dark brown. Inner area of pronotum with the following black to fuscous marks: a pair of central longitudinal fasciae, with their anterior and posterior ends widened laterad; a fascia along margin of inner area, irregular in thickness. Pronotal collar with black to fuscous margin and a pair of fuscous patches on each posterolateral corner. Lateral pronotal collar not dentate but waved. Mesonotum mostly fuscous with curved dull green fascia surrounding each submedian sigilla and a pair of postero-sublateral triangular dull green spots. Cruciform elevation dull green, with black anterior subapical parts and brown posterior parts. Thoracic sternites ochraceous.

Wings

Wings hyaline and tinged with green.Fore wing with infuscation on bases of apical cells and vein parts around nodal line intersection. Inverted triangular infuscation present on each hind margin of radius anterior 2 (RA2), RP, median 1-4 (M1-4), cubitus anterior 1 (CuA1), and cubitus anterior 2 (CuA2) vein. Nodal line viewable on fore wing ulnar cell 3 and medial cell. Venation dark brown except for ochraceous apical part. Basal cell pale ochraceous. Basal membrane and hind wing jugum grayish ochraceous. Hind wing with indistinct infuscation on bases of apical cells 4 and 5.

Operculum

Operculum ochraceous; about as long as wide, nearly rectangular with edges rounded, but lateral side elongated anteriorly; scarcely extending beyond posterior margin of sternite II. Two opercula apart from each other, with gap of about width of operculum. Meracanthus ochraceous.

Abdomen

Abdomen cylindrical, about 1.8571 times (1.60- 1.85; n = 14) as long as head and thorax together; brown with very narrowly fuscous posterior margin of tergite 2. Tergite 8 thickly covered with white pollinosity.Posterior margin of tergite 3 much wider than mesonotum. Timbal cover short, semi-oval, much wider than long, revealing timbal in dorsal view. Male abdominal sternite III with tubercle-like projection on each centrolateral surface.Abdominal sternites ochraceous, densely covered with white pollinosity.

Genitalia

Pygofer elliptical in ventral view. Distal shoulder not pointed. Uncus not bifurcate, short, standing at about 50 degree to pygofer in lateral view. Basal lobes of pygofer absent. Aedeagus thick, with lower end partly expanded.

Figures

FIG. 2. — Masamia huweii n. gen., n. sp., holotype, male, Tibet: A, dorsal habitus, body length, 34.2 mm; B, ventral habitus, body length, 34.2 mm; C, ventral view of the pygofer; D, lateral view of the pygofer. Scale bar: C, D, 1 mm.