Cyrta coalita, Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008

Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 1793, pp. 1-27 : 8

Cyrta coalita sp. n. ( Fig. 9 )

Description. Body length: ɗ 8.0mm. Body colour generally brown to dark brown; anteclypeus and lora dark with pair of stout setae apically on anteclypeus ( Fig. 9 B). Scutellum with very short tufts of black hairlike setae on lateral margin ( Fig. 9 A).

Male pygofer with short to long macrosetae and very dense short setae; with a long dorsally curved inner process and process with two denticles on dorsal margin at about one third part ( Fig. 9 G). Subgenital plate not extending beyond to apex of pygofer side; fused with valve basally ( Fig. 9 F). Aedeagal shaft broad basally and tapered to apex in both lateral and ventral view, apex acute in lateral view and narrowly rounded in ventral view ( Figs 9 C, E).

Type material. Holotype: ɗ ( ZSU), CHINA: Yunnan Prov., Western Hills, near Kunming, 6-VII- (19)40, J. L. Gressit.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from its subgenital plates fused to valve basally.

Remarks. This species is similar to C. striolata , C. flosifronta , C. incurvata and C. fujianensis in having an inner pygofer process. It can be distinguished from these by: 1) subgenital plate acute apically and fused to valve basally; 2) inner process of pygofer with two denticles on dorsal margin at about one third part; 3) aedeagal shaft broad basally and tapered to apex in both lateral and ventral view, apex acute in lateral view and narrowly rounded in ventral view.

Figures

FIGURE 9. Cyrta coalita sp. n. A, head and thorax, dorsal view; B, face; C, aedeagus, ventral view; D, style and connective, dorsal view; E, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; F, male genital capsule, ventral view; G, male genital capsule, lateral view.