Metanigrus guttatus Lv & Chen, 2021

Lv, Sha-Sha, Bourgoin, Thierry, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2021, Four new species of the planthopper genus Metanigrus Tsaur, Yang & Wilson from China (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Meenoplidae), ZooKeys 1024, pp. 197-213 : 197

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1024.62226

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scientific name

Metanigrus guttatus Lv & Chen
status

sp. nov.

Metanigrus guttatus Lv & Chen sp. nov. Figs 3 View Figures 1–8 , 4 View Figures 1–8 , 20-30 View Figures 20–30

Measurements.

Total length: male 3.96-4.31 mm (N = 13), female 4.44-4.72 mm (N = 8).

Diagnosis.

The salient features of the new species include: the distal part of tegmina (Fig. 22 View Figures 20–30 ) with a large black patch; dorsolateral part of anal tube (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 27 View Figures 20–30 ) with a stout finger-like process, a protrusion on the basolateral finger-like process; gonostyli (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 27 View Figures 20–30 , 29 View Figures 20–30 ) slender, inner process very narrow, apex of outer process nearly fan-shaped in lateral view.

Coloration.

General color yellowish white (Figs 3 View Figures 1–8 , 4 View Figures 1–8 ). Frons whitish yellow. Clypeus black-brown. Vertex and pronotum white. Mesonotum brown. Eyes black. Legs yellowish brown. Tegmina semitransparent, with black patch near end. Wings hyaline. Abdomen brown.

Head and thorax.

Head (Figs 3 View Figures 1–8 , 20 View Figures 20–30 ) significantly narrower than pronotum, without median carina. Vertex shorter in middle line than wide at base (1: 1.77), with two posterolateral areolets at base not meeting medially. Frons (Fig. 21 View Figures 20–30 ) subrectangular, without median carina, longer in middle line than wide at widest portion (about 1.67: 1), lateral carinae with a dense row of sensory pits along outer margin. Postclypeus (Fig. 21 View Figures 20–30 ) with distinct median and lateral carinae. Frontoclypeal suture nearly straight. Rostrum elongate, in repose well surpassing hind-coxae. Pronotum (Fig. 20 View Figures 20–30 ) wider than maximum width of head (including eyes) (1.71: 1), with median carina and sinuate lateral carinae. Mesonotum (Fig. 20 View Figures 20–30 ) about 4.57 times longer than pronotum in midline, with distinct median carina. Tegmina (Fig. 22 View Figures 20–30 ) slender, longer than maximal width (2.59: 1), almost as wide at postnodal as prenodal area, veins ScP + R + MP with several sensory pits, MP 3 two branched; five postnodal closed cells with C1 smaller than C2, C5 placed next to C3, C4 distally displaced after the nodal line, im, r-m and anterior two-thirds of margin with white areas. Hind wing (Fig. 23 View Figures 20–30 ) with lateral margin notched at CuA1, CuP, and A2, more strongly at A1; A2 not reaching posterior margin. Metatibiotarsal formula: (3+5)-6-5.

Male genitalia.

Pygofer (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 25 View Figures 20–30 , 27 View Figures 20–30 , 28 View Figures 20–30 ) symmetrical, gradually narrowed towards apex, with sinuate anterior and posterior margins. Pygopher with internal sulcus, with slightly curved lateral margins in ventral view. Anal tube (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 27 View Figures 20–30 ) in lateral view, hand-shaped, anal style slender, lateral lobes distally shorter than anal style, dorsolateral part with a stout finger-like process, a protrusion on the basolateral finger-like process. Aedeagus (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 26 View Figures 20–30 , 27 View Figures 20–30 , 30 View Figures 20–30 ) acuminate apically, with tubular periandrium, lateral lobes swelling on both sides, surface beset with scale-like productions, ventral lobe slender with acute apex, dorsal lobes with an acute and a nearly rectangular process; in ventral view, base wider. Gonostyli (Figs 24 View Figures 20–30 , 25 View Figures 20–30 , 27-29 View Figures 20–30 ) slender, divided into two parts, inner process very narrow, curved apically, tapering into a process; in lateral view, outer process convex, apex nearly fan-shaped, inner margin with long setae; in ventral view, divergent, top of outer gonostyli with a pointed needle-like structure on the inner side.

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, China: Guizhou, Zhijin county (26°35'N, 105°53'E), 18 July 2020, Sha-Sha Lv; Paratypes GoogleMaps : 12♂♂, Guizhou, Zhijin county , 18 July 2020, Sha-Sha Lv, Feng-E Li, Xiao-Ya Wang and Nian Gong ; 8♀♀, Guizhou, Zhijin county , 18 July 2020, Sha-Sha Lv, Feng-E Li and Nian Gong .

Etymology.

The species name is derived from the Latin adjective " Metanigrus guttatus ", referring to the tegmina with a patch.

Remarks.

This species is similar to Metanigrus chromus but differs from the latter in: (1) distal part of tegmina with a large black patch (distal part of tegmina without a large black patch in M. chromus ); (2) frons without two brownish-black patches on both sides (frons with two brownish-black patches on both sides in M. chromus ); (3) dorsolateral part of anal tube with a finger-like process (dorsolateral part of anal tube without a finger-like process in M. chromus ).

Distribution.

China (Guizhou) (Fig. 61 View Figure 61 ).

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

MP

Mohonk Preserve, Inc.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Meenoplidae

Genus

Metanigrus