Comahadina angelica Huang and Zhang

Huang, Min & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, A new leafhopper genus Comahadina Huang and Zhang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) and a key to genera of Eupteryx - complex, Zootaxa 2353, pp. 65-68 : 66

Comahadina angelica Huang and Zhang sp.nov.

Figs 1–16 .

Description. Ivory to yellowish. Broad transverse band in upper part of face, short streak on ScP+RA and round patch, sometimes diffusing to apical margin of forewing on RP, brownish-black; area of crossvein, adjoining area of apical margin and apical 1/3 of CuA’, smoky ( Figs 1–3 ). Abdomen with dorsum brownish and venter yellowish; pygofer capsule and subgenital plate brownish to brownish-black.

Vertex at midline longer than half its width at base; face shorter than its greatest breadth, with anteclypeus dilated in male. Forewing gradually narrow and about four times longer than its maximal breadth; three longitudinal veins on corium almost equidistant from each other at crossvein; RP +MP’ with common stalk arising between R and M and leading to subtriangular third apical cell; first apical cell smallest, second apical cell largest, widening towards apex.

Abdominal apodemes reaching distal margin of 5th abdominal sternite ( Fig. 6 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe with base broad, concave near hind margin, with plumose setae (under high magnification there are many mini spots on each seta) in two dense groups near caudo-ventral margin and in row along basal half of ventral margin, longitudinal row of microsetae in upper half near caudal margin; angulate projection at caudo-dorsal angle with row of rigid microsetae marginally ( Fig.8 ). Subgenital plate with apex rounded and slightly twisted laterad; apex with tiny protrusion on outer margin, with few microsetae on surface and 2 medium setae on protrusion, and with row of rigid setae on inner ventral margin gradually becoming shorter toward apex; apical 2/3 of outer margin with row of microsetae, 2–4 macrosetae near center of outer margin ( Figs 10–11 ). Paramere with basal part short, about 1/3 length of caudal part; caudal part narrowed at mid-length and broadened apically, inner margin slightly expanded subapically, apex truncate, with a row of microsetae on outer basal margin and row of sensorial pits on inner basal margin lower than former ( Fig.13 ). Connective Y-shaped with manubrium slim ( Fig.12 ). Aedeagus with termination of dorsal apodeme triangular; shaft with semimembranous termination large directed cephalad, and with subapical processes branched; gonopore subapical.

Measurement: Male 3.36–3.50 mm, female 3.39–3.71 mm long, including wings.

Type Material. Holotype, 3, CHINA. Zhejiang Province: Qingliangfeng Natural Reserve, Shunxi village, altitude 430 m, 8.viii.2008, coll. Daozheng Qin; paratype, 23 1Ƥ, same data as holotype; 23 3Ƥ, same locality and date as holotype, coll. Xia Gao et Xiaoting Li; 131Ƥ, Mt. Fengyangshan, altitude 1300 m, 8.viii.2003, 13, altitude 1250 m, 10.viii.2003, by lamp, coll. Wu Dai; 133Ƥ, Hubei Province: Mt. Jiugong, 13.vi.1984, coll. Yang Jikun ( NWAFU); 13, Guangxi Province: Napo, Defu , altitude 1350m, 19.vi.2000, coll. Jian Yao ( IZCAS).

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ angelica ” which refers to its forewing white.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 16. Comahadina angelica sp. nov. 1, habitus, dorsal view; 2, anterior dorsum, lateral view; 3, face of male; 4, forewing; 5, hindwing; 6, abdominal apodemes; 7, male pygofer, lateral view; 8, male pygofer lobe, lateral view; 9, paramere, connective, subgenital plate and sternite IX, dorsal view; 10, subgenital plate, dorsal view; 11, apex of subgenital plate; 12, connective; 13, paramere; 14, aedeagus, posterior view; 15, aedeagus, lateral view; 16, apex of aedeagus, dorsal view.