Striatanus dentatus Li & Wang

Zhang, Yalin, Zhang, Xinmin & Wei, Cong, 2009, Review of the leafhopper genus Striatanus Li & Wang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) with description of one new species from China, Zootaxa 2292, pp. 49-56 : 52

Striatanus dentatus Li & Wang

( Figs 11–20 )

Striatanus dentatus Li & Wang, 1995: 190 ; 1996: 113

Measurements (male): Body length: 8.0– 8.2 mm; head width (incl. eyes): 1.4–1.7mm; head length: 1.5–1.9 mm.

Vertex ( Figs 11, 12 ) greatly elongate, apex attenuated, as long as pronotum and scutellum together.

Male pygofer ( Fig. 14 ) in lateral view with apex tapered; ventral process ( Figs 14, 20 ) slightly curved dorsad, apical part with sinuate internal ledge. Aedeagus complex ( Fig. 16 ), shaft recurved near apex with one pair of digitate lateral processes concealing shaft, strongly recurved, another pair of processes arising anteriorly near midlength and strongly recurved, gonopore apical.

Material examined: 13 ( IZAS), China: Yunnan Prov., Mengyang, 24-August-1957, coll: Zang Lingchao; 13 (NKU), China: Yunnan Prov., Ruili, 3-September-1979, coll: Ling Zuopei.

Distribution: China (Yunnan).

Remarks: This species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the shape of the ventral process of male pygofer and the aedeagus.

Figures

FIGURES 11 – 20. Striatanus dentatus Li & Wang 11. habitus, dorsal view; 12. habitus, lateral view; 13. face; 14. male pygofer, lateral view; 15. aedeagus, ventral view; 16. aedeagus, lateral view; 17. style; 18. subgenital plate; 19. connective and style; 20. pygofer ventral process, lateral view.