Malaysiapona brevipenis, Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2019

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4604 (1), pp. 176-182 : 178

Malaysiapona brevipenis sp. nov.

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Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished in the male genitalia by the apically bi-lobed style apophysis and ro- bust aedeagal shaft.

Description. Length (including tegmen). Male: 6.5 mm.

Crown with anterior orange band occupying less than half length, with three small black spots; pronotum slightly wider than long, forewing veins testaceous.

Head with coronal suture long; ocelli twice own diameter from adjacent eyes; fore femur AV with 5 stout setae; IC with 11 setae.

Male genitalia. Style relatively narrow, apex of apophysis bi-lobed, lateral lobe weakly developed; aedeagal shaft robust, abruptly tapered distally to acute apex in lateral view, column-like in ventral view, with several sub- apical denticuli on ventral surface; with a pair of elongate processes extended caudally from base of preatrium-like area, sinuate, another single shorter elongate process arising slightly more dorsad. Small accessory sclerite (pa- raphysis) between connective and aedeagus.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah, Danum Valley , 5°01’N, 117°47’E, 30-xi- 1987, 200 m, light trap, understory forest, lowland mixed dipterocarp forest grid, No. 52, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs (NMW).

Distribution. Malaysia (Sabah).

Etymology. The species takes its name from the robust aedeagal shaft.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Malaysiapona brevipenis. A–B. Male, dorsal and lateral view; C–D. head, dorsal and anterodorsal view; E. face; F–G. pygofer, lateral and dorsal view; H–I. aedeagus and apex of aedeagus, dorsal view; J–K. connective and aedeagus, lateral and ventral view; L. style, ventral view; M. valve and subgenital plate, ventral view