Nakaharanus lii, Wei & Xing, 2019

Wei, Xingtao & Xing, Jichun, 2019, Review of Chinese species of the genus Nakaharanus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4615 (1), pp. 165-175 : 168-170

Nakaharanus lii sp. nov.

Figs. 19–31

Description. Body yellowish-brown, vertex with irregular brown markings (Fig. 19). Face yellowish-brown with two big black spots basally (Fig. 21). Pronotum and scutellum yellowish-brown with irregular brown markings (Fig. 22). Forewing dark yellowish with irregular brown markings, its costal margin, apical cells and appendix with dark brown spots. Legs yellowish (Fig. 20).

External features as in generic description.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer side slightly longer than high, with stout setae, posteroventral margin with short, slender process and without subapical process at posteroventral margin (Figs. 23–24). Valve subtriangular, slightly concaved middle (Fig. 25). Subgenital plate with wide base, lateral margin curved and sharply narrowed posteriorly with setae in basal half (Fig. 26). Aedeagal shaft curved, slender, C-shaped in lateral view, aedeagal shaft with one short spine subapically on dorsal side, gonopore apical (Figs. 27–28). Connective Y-shaped, stem approximately equal to arms (Fig. 29). Style with basal half wider and narrowing to the middle, apical half narrow, preapical lobe with fine setae (Fig. 30).

Female seventh sternum posterior margin concave, resulting in projection on both sides, and its middle of posterior margin produced (Fig. 31).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 4.7–4.9 mm; ♀, 4.9–5.1 mm.

Type Material. Holotype: ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Prov., Mayanghe , 27 September-6 October 2007, coll. Qiongzhang Song ( GUGC) ; Paratypes: 1♀, Guizhou Prov., Shuicheng , 30 September 1987, coll. Zizhong Li ( GUGC) ; 1♂, Guangxi Autonomous Region, Yuanbaoshan , 13 July 2004, coll. Maofa Yang ( GUGC) ; 1♀, Guizhou Prov., Mayanghe, Lijiaba , 30 September 2007, coll. YuJian Li ( GUGC) ; 1♀, Guizhou Prov., Mayanghe, Lijiaba , 30 September 2007, coll. Qiongzhang Song ( GUGC) ; 1♂, Guizhou Prov., Mayanghe, Lijiaba , 1 October 2007, coll. Li Yu-Jian ( GUGC) ; 1♀, Guizhou Prov., Bijie , 11 July 2013, coll. Zhengqiang Zhao ( GUGC) ; 1♀, Yunnan Prov., Lijiang , 10 August 2008, coll. Qiongzhang Song ( GUGC) .

Distribution. China (Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan).

Remarks. This species is similar to Nakaharanus maculosus Kuoh in general appearance, but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagal shaft with a pair of long and slender processes at the apex and the structure of the female seventh sternum obviously different.

Etymology. This new species is named after Prof. Zizhong Li (GUGC) in recognition of his good work on leafhoppers.