Empoasca (Empoasca) paragucia Fletcher & Liu

Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Chinese Empoasca Walsh (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of seven new species and some new Chinese records, Zootaxa 3055, pp. 1-21 : 7-8

Empoasca (Empoasca) paragucia Fletcher & Liu , sp. nov.

( Figs.36–44 ; 89–92)

Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Menglun (21° 53’ 13” N, 101° 18’ 03” E), Yunnan Prov., 9 December 1999, 570m, coll. Dworakowska; paratypes: 2 3, Lijiang, Yunnan Prov., 13 November 1999, 2300m, coll. Daozheng Qin (all in NWAFU).

Length: 3 2.4 mm.

Ground color of body yellow greenish (fig. 92). Crown with light green patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 89). Eyes golden brownish. Pronotum with irregular patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen gray green. Legs light green to dark (fig. 91).

Ventral abdominal apodemes subparallel-sided, relatively long, reaching segment 6 (fig. 39). Pygofer with two groups of setae, one group of six setae on margin larger than group of 12 setae located on lobe (fig. 36); pygofer appendage nearly reaching but not surpassing pygofer margin (fig. 37). Anal appendage stout, tapering apically (fig. 38). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad, not expanded apically, tapered to narrow apex; with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; dorsolateral margin with 4–5 long stout setae subbasally and 17–19 short microsetae on apical 2/3 (fig. 44). Paramere with 5 teeth on dentifer, 6–8 setae subapically (fig. 43). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate, strongly sclerotized along midline but without obvious dorsal keel (fig. 40). Aedeagus shaft well sclerotized, compressed with prominent finely serrate crest at ventral margin, and with two very short distally projecting appendages at apex; another pair of processes at base of shaft in ventral margin nearly as long as shaft (figs. 41, 42). Gonopore terminal.

Etymology. The species name is derived from the combination of “ para -” and “ gucia ” which refers to the similarity of the new species to Empoasca (Empoasca) gucia Dworakowska 1977 .

Distribution. China (Yunnan).

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca gucia Dworakowska, 1977 , but differs from the latter in having the aedeagal shaft compressed laterally with a big crest on the ventral margin and with two very short processes at the apex of the shaft.

Figures

FIGURES 36 – 44. Empoasca (Empoasca) paragucia sp. nov., 36, male pygofer, lateral view; 37, pygofer appendage; 38, anal tube appendage, lateral view; 39, abdominal apodemes; 40, connective; 41, aedeagus, ventral view; 42, aedeagus, lateral view; 43, paramere; 44, subgenital plate.