Ficiana aurantia, Xu, Ye, Suo, Hui-feng & Qin, Dao-zheng, 2015

Xu, Ye, Suo, Hui-feng & Qin, Dao-zheng, 2015, Revision of the genus Ficiana Ghauri and its relationship to other genera in Empoascini (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), ZooKeys 541, pp. 71-78 : 73-76

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Ficiana aurantia sp. n. Figs 1-7, 8-18

Description.

Body length: Male 3.75-4.05 mm.

Color. General color of male orange. Crown with a brownish shallow depression beside coronal suture, sublaterally near eyes with a narrow blackish stripe on each side which is continuously extended to base of face, the stripes curved near base of vertex (Figs 1, 3, 4). Frontoclypeus with transverse linear stripes laterally, adjacent to the lateral frontoclypeal suture brown with two meniscate, brownish patches, anteclypeus black apically, lorum sordid brownish centrally (Fig. 4). Eyes dark (Figs 1-4). Ocelli circled with whitish creamy patch (Figs 1-4). Pronotum with black, sinuate transverse depression laterally, mid-posteriorly reddish-black, laterobasal angles studded with reddish patches (Figs 1, 3). Centre of scutellum with a quadrate creamy patch anteriorly (Figs 1, 3). Abdomen black (Figs 1, 2). Fore and hindwing subhyaline, vein distinct (Figs 1, 2). Legs greyish (Fig. 2).

Basal abdominal sternal apodemes reaching the end of segment 4 (Fig. 7). Male pygofer almost triangular, distal lobe bearing 2 long and approximately 20 rigid setae, caudo-ventral margin infolded, poorly sclerotized and apically bearing irregular teeth (Figs 5, 10-12); dorsal bridge occupying almost 1/4 of the lobe, caudally membranous (Fig. 12). Subgenital plates far surpassing tip of pygofer, gradually narrowing, both lateral sides curved upwards in lateral view, B-group setae (20-22) near dorsal margin of the plate, arising near base towards subapex in 2-3 rows, C-group setae (8-9) arising in apical 2/5, uniseriate in most part but biseriate near apex, D-group setae sparsely scattered in several irregular rows (Figs 5, 10, 18). Paramere broad and sinuate in most part, with 3 teeth near apex, apically strongly narrowed, long and spine-like, and a columnar process toward base (Figs 5, 10, 17). Aedeagal in lateral view, shaft tubular, curved and gradually tapering, gonopore apical; dorso-atrium laterally flattened, longer than shaft, with wrinkles and numerous tiny strumae on surface, dorso-basal prolongation bifurcated apically; baso-ventral protrusion of aedeagus longer than the shaft and doratrium in profile, sub-basally strongly curved, apical part broadened and directed dorso-caudally, widest near apex, bearing numerous, bushy setae on the dorsal side; dorsal view, ventro-basal protrusion bifurcated sub-medially, divergent and almost same width in basal 2/3, apices narrowed and curved (Figs 5, 6, 14, 15). Connective closely related to aedeagus near base on dorsal side, posterior and lateral margins concave, anterior margin incised medially (Figs 14-16). Anal tube process strongly narrowing and branched apically, dorsal branch short and tuberculate, ventral branch smooth (Figs 5, 10, 13).

Type material.

Holotype. ♂, China, Guangxi, Rongshui, 31 July, 2014, coll. Ye Xu. Paratypes. 4 ♂♂, same data as holotype.

Host plants.

Unknown.

Etymology.

The specific epithet is an adjective derived from the Latin word “aurantium”, referring to the orange body color of the new species.

Remarks.

This new species differs from Ficiana pruthii Ghauri by the male pygofer not truncated caudally (Figs 10, 11) (male pygofer truncated caudally in Ficiana pruthii ); anal tube appendage straight and branched apically (Figs 5, 10, 13) (anal tube appendage curved, not branched apically in Ficiana pruthii ); paramere spine-like apically, subapex with a short columnar process (Fig. 17) (paramere not spine-like apically, subapically without columnar process in Ficiana pruthii ).

Distribution.

China (Guangxi).