Thaioneura suphanburia, Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2016

Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Dietrich, Christopher H., 2016, A new erythroneurine leafhopper genus from Thailand (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), with description of three new species, ZooKeys 595, pp. 7-16 : 13-14

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Thaioneura suphanburia sp. n. Figs 21-30, 31 I–L

Description.

Male length 2.3 mm.

Color similar to other congeners (Fig. 31 A–D; E–G). Vertex milky yellow, with longitudinal milky white bandlike stripe medially (Fig. 31I). Face with anteclypeus pale (Fig. 31L). Pronotum dark color faded, with three dark spots on anterior margin and both sides (Fig. 31I). Mesonotum light brown, basal triangles dark brown, with irregular dark marking in area between basal triangles; scutellum light brown (Fig. 31I).

Hind wing vein CuA completely confluent with MP distally, CuP free distally (Fig. 22).

Male abdominal apodemes extended to hind margin of 4th sternite (Fig. 23).

Pygofer dorsal appendage digitiform, but short; ventrolateral setal group with 4 macrosetae (Fig. 24). Subgenital plate with 4 marginal macrosetae (Figs 24, 25). Style apex slightly curved and truncate with medial notch, preapical lobe bluntly angulate (Figs 26, 27). Connective stem narrow and truncate apically (Fig. 28). Aedeagal shaft tubular, truncate apically in ventral view, with pair of long slender divergent processes arising near base and extended distad, pair of shorter apical processes extended basolaterad, preatrium short (Figs 29, 30).

Material examined.

Holotype: ♂, Thailand, Suphanburi, Pu Toei NP Phu Toei hill top/road, 14°57.32'N; 99°26.972'E, 650 m, Malaise trap, 24-31.viii.2008, coll. Saunbua. L. Paratype: 1♂, same data as holotype.

Remarks.

This species can be distinguished from the other species of this genus by the two pairs of aedeagal processes, the short preatrium and the truncate apex of the aedeagal shaft in ventral view (Figs 29, 30).

Etymology.

This new species is named from the type locality, Suphanburi, Thailand.