Thapaia tibetensis, Cao & Dmitriev & Dietrich & Zhang, 2019

Cao, Yanghui, Dmitriev, Dmitry A., Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, New taxa and new records of Erythroneurini from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 59 (1), pp. 189-210 : 198

Thapaia tibetensis sp. nov.

( Figs 6 A–I, 12U–X)

Type locality. China, Tibet, Yigong.

Type material. HOLOTYPE: ♁, CHINA: TIBET: Yigong , 2300 m, 14.vi.1978, Fasheng Li leg. ( CAU) . PARATYPE: CHINA: TIBET: 1 ♁, Linzhi, 3050 m, 6.vi.1978, Fasheng Li leg. ( CAU).

Description. Ground color ( Figs 12 U–X) brown, lower part of frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus, lorum and gena very dark, brochosome field on forewing dirty taupe.

Abdominal apodemes 2S ( Fig. 6A ) extended to middle of sternite IV.

Male terminalia. Pygofer side ( Fig. 6B ) separated into basal and apical sclerites, apical part triangular, bent inwards; with several rigid setae on outer surface of distal angle; dorsal appendage ( Fig. 6C ) triangular, apex protruded. Style ( Fig. 6F ) with apical part broader than in other species, preapical lobe gemma-like. Connective ( Fig. 6G ) broad. Aedeagal shaft ( Figs 6H, I ) curved dorsad, with apical pair of slim processes slightly curved upwards, shaft and processes T-shaped in ventral view; gonopore terminal.

Measurements. Male body length 3.00–3.10 mm.

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to T. multibudna Song & Li, 2009 , but the connective is broader and the aedeagal shaft is curved dorsad with only one pair of processes.

Etymology. The specific epithet is an adjective based on the geographical origin of the type series, Tibet.

Figures

Fig. 6. Thapaia tibetensis sp. nov.A – apodemes 2S; B – genital capsule; C – apex of pygofer side and pygofer dorsal appendage, caudal view; D – apex of pygofer side and anal tube, ventral view; E – subgenital plate, ventral view; F – style, dorsal view; G – connective; H – aedeagus, lateral view; I – aedeagus, ventral view.

Fig. 12. A–D – Hamata coralliformis sp. nov.; E–H – Levigata arborea sp. nov.; I–L – Gladkara albida Dworakowska, 1995; M–P – G. bifida sp. nov.; Q–T – Thapaia plumula Song & Li, 2009; U–X – T. tibetensis sp. nov.