Empoascanara (E.) conchata, Song & Li, 2013

SONG, YUE-HUA & LI, ZI-ZHONG, 2013, Two new species of Empoascanara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Yunnan Province, China, Zootaxa 3637 (1), pp. 89-93 : 90

Empoascanara (E.) conchata sp. nov. ( Figs 1–7 )

Description: Body orange yellow, with little red tint. Vertex orange yellow, with large black patch in middle of anterior margin ( Fig. 1 ). Eyes black ( Fig. 1 ). Pronotum orange yellow, with median and lower half orange brown ( Fig. 1 ). Scutellum orange yellow ( Fig. 1 ). Forewing semitransparent, light brown.

Abdominal apodemes ( Fig. 2 ) small, not exceeding hind margin of 3rd sternite.

Male genitalia: Pygofer microtrichia well developed, pygofer dorsal appendage small, bifurcate near median part, its dorsal branch long and tapering towards apex, ventral branch short. ( Fig. 3 ). Subgenital plate broadened sub-basally, provided with 3 long macrosetae on lateral surface; numerous peg-like setae and microsetae along dorsal margian and near apex ( Fig. 3 ). Style truncate at apex, preapical lobe distinct ( Fig. 4 ). Aedeagus shaft broad and compressed in lateral view, with pair of long basal processes which swollen at apex ( Fig. 5 ). Preatrium and dorsal apodeme small in lateral view, but dorsal apodeme extremely expanded in ventral view ( Figs 5, 6 ). Gonopore apical on ventral surface ( Figs 5, 6 ). Connective nearly Y-shaped, with central lobe distinct and stem long ( Fig. 7 ).

Specimen examined: Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Yunnan Prov., Menghai , 23 VII 2008, coll. Yuehua Song. Paratypes: 2♀♀, same data as holotype .

Measurement: Body length ♂ 2.7 mm; ♀ 2.5~2.6 mm.

Remarks: This species is similar to E. (E.) linnavuorii Dworakowska 1972 , but can be distinguished by the atrial processes divergent from base; the aedeagus dorsal apodeme expanded in ventral view; the connective Yshaped, with stem large and the vertex with a nearly pentagon black patch medially.

Etymology: The specific name is derived from the Latin word “ conchata ”, which refers to the aedeagus with basal processes expanded apically.

Figures

FIGURES 1–7. Empoascanara (E.) conchata sp. nov. 1. Head and thorax, dorsal view. 2. Abdominal apodemes. 3. Male pygofer, lateral view. 4. Style. 5. Aedeagus, lateral view. 6. Aedeagus, ventral view. 7. Connective.