Consociata sinensis, Qin, Dao-Zheng & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2006

Qin, Dao-Zheng & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2006, Two new genera and two new species of Delphacidae (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea) from China, Zootaxa 1204, pp. 61-68 : 66-67

Consociata sinensis n. sp.

( Figs. 12–24 )

Type material. Holotype –male: Xinglong, Hainan Province, China, 23 April 1983, coll. Yalin Zhang, by light trap. Paratypes –one male; two females: same data as holotype.

Description. Macropterous form: body length 2.1–2.2 mm (male) and 2.7–2.9 mm (female); body length including tegmen 3.3–3.4 mm (male) and 3.5–3.8 mm (female); tegmen length 2.8–2.9 mm (male) and 2.9–3.5 mm (female).

General color orange­yellow. Eyes black. Ocelli blackish brown. Tegmen hyaline, light orange­yellow.

Structural characters as in generic description. Pygofer in profile longer ventrally than dorsally, in posterior view with opening wider than long. Phallus slender and curved, apex lamellate, reflected cephalad with a process. Suspensorium with arms about half as long as stem. Diaphragm with dorsal margin deeply concave. Opening for genital styles evenly curved at dorsal margin. Left and right genital styles fused, greatly divergent in opposite direction apically.

Etymology. The specific name refers to its distribution in China.

Distribution. Southern China (Hainan Province).

Figures

FIGURES 12 – 24. Consociata sinensis n. sp., 12, head and thorax, dorsal view; 13, frons and clypeus; 14, tegmen; 15, male genitalia, posterior view; 16, the same, lateral view; 17, male pygofer, lateral view; 18, diaphragm; 19, phallus, lateral view; 20, genital styles, caudolateral view; 21, the same, caudal view; 22, suspensorium; 23, anal segment, lateral view; 24, the same, caudal view.