Stirellus neospeciosus, Duan, Yani, Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016

Duan, Yani, Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the leafhopper tribe Stenometopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China with description of four new species, Zootaxa 4171 (1), pp. 101-138 : 121-123

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3499794
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scientific name	Stirellus neospeciosus
status	sp. nov.

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Stirellus neospeciosus View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 17–19 View FIGURE 17 View FIGURE 18 View FIGURE 19 )

Length. Male: 3.8–4.0mm; female: 4.1–4.4mm.

Color. General color ochraceous ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 ). Vertex with two orange-red longitudinal bands ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–C). Face ochraceous ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 E). Pronotum, mesonotum and scutellum with 3 orange-red bands ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–C). Forewing usually with brown hue ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–D).

Body. Head narrower than pronotum, anterior acutely angled. Vertex longer than width between eyes ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–C). Ocellus next to eye on anterior margin ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 D). Eye relatively large ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–C). Anteclypeus parallel-sided, extending slightly beyond normal curve of genae ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 E). Pronotum median length slightly nearly as long as median length of crown. Mesonotum and scutellum shorter than pronotum ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–C). Forewing macropterous, usually exposing apex of abdomen in female ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 A–D).

Male. Pygofer side with few macrosetae dorsally, apex truncate ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 A). Subgenital plate concave laterally, macrosetae nearly uniseriate laterally ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 C). Style apophysis digitate, slender, laterally curved ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 D–E). Connective stem shorter than arms ( Fig. 18 View FIGURE 18 F). Aedeagal shaft in lateral view variable, usually relatively straight, diverging from basal apodeme ( Figs. 18 View FIGURE 18 G–H, 19).

Female. Hind margin of seventh sternum slightly concave in the middle ( Fig. 17 View FIGURE 17 F).

Material examined. Holotype: China, Yunnan Prov., Ruili , 1200m, 2 July 2007, coll. Wei Cong . Paratypes: China, Yunnan Prov.: 2Ƌ, Jinghong City , 30 May 1991, coll. Liu Guanchun & Cai Wanzhi ( BMNH) ; Guangdong Prov.: 1♀, Guangzhou City, Conghua , 28 April 2006, coll. Lu Jianwen & Feng Yongjun ( GDEI) ; Guangxi Prov.: 4♀, Fangchenggang City, Tongzhong , 3 December 2001, coll. He Zhiqiang ; Hainan Prov.: 1♀, Mt. Jianfeng , 25 May 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin ; 2Ƌ, 1♀, Yacheng , 9 June 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin ( NWAFU, BMNH); 1Ƌ , 1♀, Mt. Bawang , 27 June 1983, coll. Zhang Yalin .

Remarks. This species is similar in appearance to S. rufolineatus (Melichar) and S. speciosus ( Distant, 1918: 75, Fig. 42; Pruthi, 1934: 91, plate VII, Figs. 6 & 6 View FIGURE 6 a, text-fig. 109), all having orange-red longitudinal bands on the vertex and pronotum. However, the identity of the former female type is uncertain as the structure of the male genitalia is needed to identify species in this genus and the latter has a longer head and differently shaped male genitalia (specimens examined, BMNH). The aedeagus of this species shows considerable variation in the specimens examined see Fig. 19 View FIGURE 19 .

Etymology. This species is named for its similarity to S. speciosus (Distant) .