Flata pinga, Peng, Ling-Fei, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2012

Peng, Ling-Fei, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2012, Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 3399, pp. 1-22 : 9-11

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.281824
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6181023
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D17C59-486F-F609-91D3-CDC9FE130C1A
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Flata pinga
status	sp. nov.

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5. Flata pinga View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 , 6 View FIGURE 6 )

Color. Head, mesonotum and legs stramineous; pronotum and tegmina white brown; eyes brown; tegmina with many small round black spots ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 ).

Morphology. Body length: 16 mm.

Head: Vertex 4.4 times as wide as long ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A); frons slightly longer than wide ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 B); frontoclypeal suture shallowly convex ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 B); rostrum extending to meso-trochanter.

Thorax: Pronotum anterior margin convex; lateral margin extending lateral-ventrally; postocular eminence ridged ( Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 C, 6C). Mesonotum posterior angle about 90° ( Figs. 5 View FIGURE 5 A, 6A). Metatibia with seven spines apically; basal segment of metatarsi with nine spines apically. Tegmina with costal margin slightly convex at base; apical margin elongate convex; sutural margin truncate; apical angle convex; sutural angle slightly rounded, about 90°; vein Cu once forked, the branches joining postclaval margin ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D).

Male genitalia: Pygofer quadrangular; dorsal margin strongly concave ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 D). Genital style slightly hemispherical with a short process at dorsal apex ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 D). Anal tube large and long in lateral view, widest subapically, bent down at midlength ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 D). Phallobase tubular at base in lateral view; dorsolateral lobe slender, apex each side with two processes, all very small ( Figs. 6 View FIGURE 6 E, H); lateral emargination deeply concave; ventral lobe long, with many spine-like processes ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 E). Theca bearing one small forked process at middle on each lateral side ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 F); apex bipartite, concave deeply ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 G), each side with two processes, anterior one slightly shorter than phallus and heavily branched, posterior one simple and circled ( Figs. 6 View FIGURE 6 F, G).

Type material. Holotype, 3, Pingjiang, Guangxi Province, China, 04.ix.1981, Wang & Liu ( NWAFU); paratypes, CHINA, Guangxi Province: 1Ƥ, Dingma forest farm, 6.v.1981, Zheng Guisheng ( NWAFU); 1Ƥ, Mt. Tianpingshan, 21.vi. 1982, 680 m, Yang Jikun ( CAU); 13, Hongtan, Longsheng, 26.vi.1982, Yang Jikun ( CAU); 1Ƥ, Mt. Sijianshan, 31.viii.2001, 400– 900 m, Dong Jianhua ( NWAFU).

Etymology. The specific name is derived from the name of the holotype locality, Pingjiang.

Distribution. China (Guangxi).

Remarks. This new species differs from other similar species of the genus by the dorsolateral lobe of phallobase bearing two pairs of short processes at apex ( Figs. 6 View FIGURE 6 E, H) and the male theca bearing a small process near middle of flank ( Fig. 6 View FIGURE 6 F).