Empoasca (Empoasca) vickiae 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 : 10

Empoasca (Empoasca) vickiae Liu , sp. nov.

( Figs.54–63 ; 96–99)

Type materials. China: holotype: 3, Jianfengling (18° 41’ 40” N, 108° 48’ 31” E), Hainan Prov., 5 August 2008, coll. Qiulei Men; paratypes: 1 3 2 Ƥ, same data as holotype (all in NWAFU).

Length: 3 2.6 mm.

Ground color of body yellow-greenish (fig. 99). Crown with brown-greenish patch on each side of coronal suture (fig. 96). Eyes brown to black. Pronotum with irregular patches on anterior margin of pronotum and under eyes. Forewing and hindwing semitransparent. Abdomen yellow to orange. Legs light yellow to green (fig. 98).

Ventral abdominal apodemes well developed, reaching segment 6, parallel-sided to broadly rounded apices (fig. 57). Pygofer lateral view broadly rounded on posterior margin, ornamented with 8–10 rigid setae distributed from outer to inner face of pygofer (fig. 54); pygofer appendage in lateral view curved dorsad, exceeding pygofer margin, with tiny tubercle on apex (fig. 55). Anal appendage stout, tapering to apex (figs. 56, 58). Subgenital plate in lateral view, curved gradually caudodorsad apically, tapering to apex, with numerous macrosetae and fine setae somewhat irregularly arranged; dorsolateral margin with 4–5 long stout setae subbasally, 16–18 short microsetae extending from near base to apex (fig. 63). Paramere with 5 teeth on dentifer, 10–11 setae subapically (fig. 62). Connective broad, anterior margin medially emarginate (fig. 61). Aedeagus in lateral view with preatrium long, with pair of long processes arising from basal part of shaft, tapered to acute apex, aedeagus shaft compressed laterally and with long appendage apically ventral to gonopore (figs. 59, 60). Gonopore terminal.

Etymology. The species is named in honor of Vicki Glover, who helped the first author a lot during the time she lived in Australia.

Distribution. China (Hainan).

Diagnosis. The new species is similar to Empoasca widlasta Dworakowska, 1977 , but differs having a pair of thin and long aedeagal processes arising at the base of the shaft, and in having the apex of the anal tube unbranched.

Figures

FIGURES 54 – 63. Empoasca (Empoasca) vickiae sp. nov., 54, male pygofer, lateral view; 55, pygofer appendage; 56, 58, anal tube appendage, lateral view; 57, abdominal apodemes; 59, aedeagus, lateral view; 60, aedeagus, ventral view; 61, connective; 62, paramere; 63, subgenital plate.