Herbiflata sacra, Peng, Lingfei, Fletcher, Murray & Zhang, Yalin, 2016

Peng, Lingfei, Fletcher, Murray & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, A new genus in the family Flatidae with one new combination and three new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), Zootaxa 4117 (2), pp. 265-276 : 272

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.2.8

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6079039

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/310E4A6E-AD38-AD06-A7F6-AE7956157683

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scientific name

Herbiflata sacra
status

sp. nov.

Herbiflata sacra View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 B, F, J, N; 5A–H)

Etymology. This specific epithet is derived from the Latin word “sacer” (feminine: sacra ), which means “sacred”. Specific epithet refers to the type locality, which means that place is “ideal and magical land”.

Diagnosis. This new species can be distinguished from other species by the following characters: mesonotum without carinae; apex of aedeagus inflated to a triangle, subapical ventral margin bearing a finger-like process.

Description. Size. Body length 8.8–9.5 mm.

Coloration. Overall color pale grey; head, thorax and legs slightly yellow, eyes fuscous; ocelli very pale white; apex of antennal segment II and clypeus yellow; legs brownish yellow, tibia and tarsus slightly darker; tegmina pale grey, translucent.

Head. Head ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 F, 5A) about 3.5 times broader than long, narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely pointed, lateral margins ridged.Vertex ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 A) very short in the middle, anterior margin truncate, lateral margins carinate. Frons ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 J, N, 5B, C) convex, slightly wider than long, lateral margins convex, strongly carinate, with median longitudinal carina almost full length of frons. Clypeus ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 J, 5B) convex medially. Rostrum long, extending to meta-trochanter. Antennal segment I ring-like, segment II about four times longer than segment I.

Thorax. Thorax ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 N, 5C) highly humped. Pronotum ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 F, 5A): anterior margin convex, posterior margin concave. Mesonotum ( Figs 2 View FIGURE 2 F, 5A) without carinae. Metatibia with two lateral spines, rarely one, metatibia with seven or eight spines apically, basal metatarsal segment with seven spines apically.

Tegmen ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 B) length 7.8–8.8 mm, width between costal margin and apex of clavus 3.8–4.2 mm; costal margin convex, apical margin rounded to apex of clavus; postclaval sutural margin convex; costal membrane about 1.7 times wider than costal cell at the level of bulla; costal cell with few transverse veinlets. ScP+R stem very short, ScP+RA not forked, RP forked slightly after bulla; MP forked apicad of RP forking, branch MP1+2 short, forked slightly apicad of M forking, MP3+4 forked apicad of MP1+2 forking; CuA forked slightly basad of 2/3 length of tegmen, CuA1 forked midlength of tegmen, CuA2 not forked, CuP about 3/5 length of tegmen, Pcu and A1 fused in apical portion of clavus; m-cua present middle of CuP.

Male terminalia. Male anal tube ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D) bent down in the middle, apex slightly turned up. Pygofer ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D) ring-like, anterior margin slightly sinuate, posterior margin evenly convex, ventral margin as long as dorsal margin. Genital style ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D) more or less semicircular, longer than wide, bearing distinct long capitulum; posterior margin sinuate. Phallic complex ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 D) strongly arched. One membrane lobe positioned dorsally at base of periandrium ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 E); apical half of periandrium bilobate, lobe large and long, apex membranous, dorsolateral emargination deeply and widely concave; ventral part apically bipartite with strongly sinuate process at inner surface of apex. Aedeagus ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 F) bipartite, apex inflated to triangle, subapical ventral margin with finger-like process.

Female terminalia. Female anal segment ( Figs 5 View FIGURE 5 G, H) nearly ovate in dorsal view, apical margin emarginate at middle; anal pore situated near middle, paraproct short, about 0.25 times as long as anal segment. Gonoplac, in lateral view, narrowly rounded apically, dorsal margin weakly concave medially; disc flat, bearing several rows of teeth in postero-dorsal and posterior part; posterior margin with well-developed seate ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 G). Gonapophysis IX small, apex cuspidal in lateral view ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 G). Endogonocoxal process short and narrowly foliate ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 G). Anterior connective laminae of gonapophysis VIII broad basally, tapering apicad, with four teeth near apex ( Fig. 5 View FIGURE 5 G). Sternum VII with posterior margin weakly concave.

Type material. Holotype, ♂, Menglun, XiShuangBanNa, Yunnan Province, China, 640 m, 21/ 30.iv.1974, Chou Io, Yuan Feng & Hu Yinyue ( NWAFU). Paratypes: 2♂♂, 3♀♀, same data as holotype.

Distribution. China (Yunnan) ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Flatidae

Genus

Herbiflata

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