Drabescus multipunctatus, Yu, Zhou, Webb, Mick, Dai, Ren-huai & Yang, Mao-fa, 2019

Yu, Zhou, Webb, Mick, Dai, Ren-huai & Yang, Mao-fa, 2019, Three new species in the leafhopper tribe Drabescini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) from southern China, ZooKeys 846, pp. 43-53 : 43

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.846.34003
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scientific name	Drabescus multipunctatus
status	sp. n.

Treatment

Drabescus multipunctatus View in CoL sp. n. Figs 10-18

Diagnosis.

Overall colour yellowish brown with numerous fine dark spots; costal area of forewing yellow (Fig. 10). Pygofer side with long stout serrated ventral process directed dorsally. Aedeagal shaft with a long single crest-like dorsomedial flange on the dorsal surface (Figs 16, 17).

Description.

Vertex approximately as long as next to eyes. Ocelli marginal, situated between two transverse ridges, separated by ca. 3 x own diameter from adjacent eye (Fig. 10). Hind femur with apical setae 2+2+1.

Male genitalia. Pygofer side slightly longer than wide; apically evenly rounded except for long stout serrated ventral process directed dorsally; without macrosetae (Fig. 13). Valve semicircular, approximately 2 x as wide as medial length. Subgenital plate elongate, triangular with short digitate apex, with short fine setae marginally on ventral surface (Fig. 14). Connective with stem as long as arms (Fig. 18). Style relatively slender throughout length, lateral lobe absent, apex curved inward with few serrations subapically on inner surface (Fig. 15). Aedeagal shaft elongate, cylindrical, sharply turned dorsally sub-basally, dorsal surface with a long single crest-like dorsomedial flange (Figs 16, 17).

Body length (including tegmina). ♂, 10.7mm.

Material examined.

Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Hainan Province, Jianfeng ridge, Nanwang forest, 22.IV.2014, Wei-cheng Yang leg.

Remarks.

The new species can be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagus with abruptly angled shaft sub-basally and with a long single crest-like dorsomedial flange.

Etymology.

The new species name is an adjective derived from the Latin words multi and punctatum referring to the many fine dark spots on the body.

Distribution.

China (Hainan Province).