Platyretus brevipenis Dai & Zhang

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, A review of the Oriental grassland leafhopper genus Platyretus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 1696, pp. 37-47 : 46

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.180717

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235432

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/58776B2B-9C63-8B2C-FF4B-5FB9FD9250FA

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Plazi

scientific name

Platyretus brevipenis Dai & Zhang
status

sp. nov.

Platyretus brevipenis Dai & Zhang View in CoL , sp. nov.

(Figs 36–42)

Color and external characters as in generic description.

Male genitalia: Pygophore, subgenital plates similar to P. javanicus . Style preapical lobe well developed, with a brush of stout setae, apophysis slender tapered to narrow apex devoid of setae. Aedeagus with shaft robust and short, apex on dorsal margin curved dorsally, ventral margin with apical angulate projection in lateral view.

Measurements: Male 6.7 mm long, 1.60 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined: CHINA: Holotype ɗ, Guizhou Prov., Luodian, 2.vi.1981, Li Fasheng ( CAU).

Remarks: This species can be distinguished by the brush of stout setae on the preapical lobe and by the aedeagal shaft being robust and short.

CAU

China Agricultural University

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Platyretus

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