Cyrta hirsuta Melichar

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 : 5

Cyrta hirsuta Melichar ( Fig. 1 )

Cyrta hirsuta Melichar, 1902: 136 –137 (61–62), pl. V, Figs 10, 10 a–b

Description. Body length: ɗ, 6.5mm. Body colour generally dark brown; vertex with blackish brown apically ( Fig. 1 A); face pale yellow, anteclypeus with pair of stout brown setae apically ( Fig. 1 B). Head and thorax with somewhat dense pale short setae. Scutellum with some short tufts of black setae laterally ( Fig. 1 A).

Male pygofer with distal margin broadly rounded in lateral view ( Fig. 1 D); subgenital plate slightly extending beyond apex of pygofer side, apex acute in ventral view ( Figs 1 D, G). Aedeagal shaft with dense tubercles laterally, apex strongly narrowed distally in ventral view ( Figs 1 C, F, L). Xth segment moderately long ( Fig. 1 I).

Material examined. Syntype, CHINA: 1ɗ ( MMB), Sichuan Prov., 12. VI. 93, Collection Dr. L. Melichar.

Remarks. This species was originally recorded from three specimens (syntypes) in the following way: ‘West-China: Sze’-Chuan, Ta-tsien-lu, 2.VI.93, 3ɗ von POTANIN gesammelt.’. The male genitalia of this species are figured here for the first time.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Cyrta hirsuta A, head and thorax, dorsal view; B, face; C, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; D, male genital capsule, lateral view; E, style and connective, dorsal view; F, apex of aedeagus, ventral view; G, valve and style, ventral view; H, base of aedeagus and dorsal connective, anteroventral view; I, male genital capsule, dorsal view; J, aedeagus, ventral view.

FIGURE 10. Cyrta fujianensis sp. n. A, style and connective, dorsal view; B, style, connective and aedeagus, lateral view; C, face; D, head and thorax, dorsal view; E, aedeagus, ventral view; F, vale and subgenital plates, ventral view; G, male genital capsule, lateral view.