Calodia zuoae, Wang & Li & Dai, 2021

Wang, Xian-Yi, Li, Zi-Zhong & Dai, Ren-huai, 2021, Two new species of the leafhopper genus Calodia Nielson (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Coelidiinae) from China, with a checklist and key to Chinese species, ZooKeys 1023, pp. 49-60 : 49

Calodia zuoae sp. nov. Figs 24-31

Type material.

Holotype, ♂, China: Yunnan Province, Lushui County, Pianma town, Mt. Gaoligong , 26 May 2019, coll. Qin Zuo ( GUGC). Paratype , ♂, same information as holotype.

Diagnosis.

The new species is similar to C. lii Zhang, 1994, but differs in the structure of aedeagal shaft processes and the aedeagal shaft.

Description.

Moderately large species. Body length (including tegmina): male, 8.8-9.4 mm.

Coloration. Ground color blackish. Head with crown brown; clypellus with median narrow yellowish stripe; area between lateral frontal sutures and eyes ochraceous (Figs 24 , 26 ). Forewing with numerous, small, ivory to yellow spots.

Morphology. Head, narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, slightly broader than width of one eye, slightly produced beyond anterior margin of eyes, eyes about ⅔ width of pronotum (Fig. 24 ); clypeus wide and short, without middle longitudinal ridge; clypellus slender, apex wider (Fig. 26 ). Pronotum large, nearly twice as long medially as crown wider than long (Fig. 24 ). Scutellum large, nearly twice as long medially as pronotum.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view triangulate, with small lobe apically (Fig. 27 ). Subgenital plate nearly rectangular, apex rounded (Fig. 27 ). Style simple, without process (Fig. 29 ). Connective Y-shaped, stem short (Fig. 28 ). Aedeagal shaft asymmetrical, slender, narrowly tubular in dorsal view, with two large processes arising almost near apex, shorter process about half as long as longer process, with numerous apical fine setae, longer process extending to midlength of shaft with numerous fine setae on outer margin proximad of midlength; gonopore large, near apex, situated laterally (Figs 30 , 31 ).

Etymology.

The new species is named after Ms Qin Zuo who collected the holotype.

Remarks.

The new species closely resembles C. lii but differs in the structure of aedeagal shaft processes, i.e., aedeagal shaft processes have finer and denser setae in C. zuoae compared to sparse and elongate secondary spines in C. lii ; the shorter process has setae confined to apex of the process in C. zuoae and in C. lii the spines on the shorter process are along entire lateral margin; the setae on longer process in C. zuoae are confined to an area proximad of the midlength on the outer margin of the process and in C. lii the sparse spines are found in the distal ¾ length and they are on both margins of the process in the distal ⅓.

Figures

Figures 24 - 31. Calodia zuoae sp. nov. 24 adult, dorsal view 25 adult, lateral view 26 face 27 male pygofer side and subgential plate, lateral view 28 connective, dorsal view 29 style, dorsal view 30 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal view 31 aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view. Scale bars: 1 mm (24 - 26); 0.5 mm (27 - 31).