Tambocerus longicaudatus Qu & Dai

Qu, Ling & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2014, Three new species of the leafhopper genus Tambocerus Zhang & Webb (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) from southern China, ZooKeys 434, pp. 47-55 : 51-52

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Tambocerus longicaudatus Qu & Dai sp. n. Figs 4-6, 16-22

Body length.

(including tegmina), ♂, 6.3-6.5 mm.

Description.

Body colour. Body yellow-brown with dark brown patches and eyes fuscous or black.

Morphology. Head (Fig. 4) including eyes slightly narrower than pronotum; vertex with midlength 1.5 times length next to eyes. Fore tibia with dorsal setal formula 1+6.

Male genitalia. Pygofer (Figs 16, 19) with elongate lateral hyaline band and pair of lobe-like hyaline areas on dorsal bridge (Fig. 19), lobe with few long macrosetae dorsally at base, lobe well produced process-like with apex digitate and curved ventrally; valve (Fig. 17) triangular; subgenital fig (Fig. 17) abruptly narrowing at midlength, apical half slender with few short setae; style (Fig. 18) with short and broad subapical lobe, apophysis moderately long, digitate with inner margin dentate subapically; connective (Fig. 22) Y-shaped with stem one and a half times length of arms; aedeagal shaft (Figs 20-21) compressed dorsoventrally, dentate laterally over distal half to near apex, with pair of apical dorsolateral serrated processes approximately half length of shaft; phallobase well developed; dorsal apodeme with short robust arms.

Female. Unknown.

Material examined.

Holotype, ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Suiyang County, Kuankuoshui National Natural Reserve, 5. VI. 2010, collected by Xing Jichun; Paratype, 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Suiyang County, Kuankuoshui National Natural Reserve, 8. VI. 2010, collected by Dai Renhuai and Li Hu.

Distribution.

China (Guizhou Province).

Remarks.

This species can be recognized by the extended and ventrally curved pygofer lobe (Figs 16, 19), sharply constricted subgenital figs (Fig. 17) at midlength and aedeagus (Figs 20-21) with pair of moderately long processes on apex.

Etymology.

The new species name is derived from the Latin words “longus” (long) and “caudatus” (tail), indicating the long pygofer extension.