Jilinga linzhiensis, Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012

Xing, Ji-Chun, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2012, Review of the leafhopper genus Jilinga Ghauri (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini), with description of two new species from China, Zootaxa 3164, pp. 49-56 : 52-53

Jilinga linzhiensis sp. nov.

Figs 18–27 , 37–39

Description. Body robust, color pattern of anterior dorsum and face as in Figs. 37–39 . Vertex with pair of black stripes on anterior margin, median length shorter than width between eyes. Hind wings with three apical cells, macropterous, with two anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell closed basally. Legs dark brown. External features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer side with long sharp spine on inner surface arising near posteroventral margin and directed apically and ventrally, with many macrosetae posteriorly ( Fig 18 ). Anal tube produced anteroventrally into pair of long sharp spine-like processes ( Fig 19 ). Aedeagus with short preatrium attached to dorsal connective with two pairs of sharp spines, aedeagal shaft with five short spines on each side, gonopore apical ( Figs 22–24 ). Connective, loop-shaped with arms fused apically ( Figs 25, 26 ). Style elongate,apex acute ( Fig 27 ).

Measurements. Length (including tegmen): Male, 3.0–3.1mm, female, 3.1–3.3mm.

Host. Grasses.

Type Material. Holotype 3, CHINA: Xizang Autonomous Region, Linzhi, 14 August 1992, coll. Baohai Wang ( GUGC). Paratypes: 1 3, 3Ƥ, same data as holotype ( GUGC).

Diagnosis. This new species is similar to J. darjilingensis but differs in the structure of the aedeagal shaft, apex of the style is long and acute, and in the structure of the dorsal connective..

Etymology. The species name is derived from the type locality Linzhi.

Figures

FIGURES 18 – 27. Jilinga linzhiensis sp. nov.: 18, Male pygofer side, lateral view; 19, Anal tube, ventral view; 20, Valve, ventral view; 21, Subgenital plate, ventral view; 22, Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; 23, Aedeagus and dorsal connective, ventral view; 24, Aedeagus, dorsal view; 25, Connective, ventral view; 26, Connective, lateral view; 27, Style, ventral view.

FIGURES 37 – 45. Jilinga linzhiensis sp. nov.: 37, 3, dorsal view; 38, 3, lateral view; 39, 3, face; Jilinga asymmetrica sp. nov.: 40, 3, dorsal view; 41, 3, lateral view; 42, 3, face (Guizhou); 43, 3, dorsal view; 44, 3, lateral view; 45, 3, face (Taiwan).