Striatanus tibetaensis Li & Wang

Zhang, Yalin, Zhang, Xinmin & Wei, Cong, 2009, Review of the leafhopper genus Striatanus Li & Wang (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) with description of one new species from China, Zootaxa 2292, pp. 49-56 : 52-55

Striatanus tibetaensis Li & Wang

( Figs 21–30 )

Striatanus tibetaensis Li & Wang, 1995: 191 ; 1996: 114

Measurements (male): body length: 8.0 mm; head width (incl. eyes): 1.4 mm; head length: 1.6 mm. Vertex elongate ( Figs 21, 22 ), but shorter than pronotum and scutellum together.

Male pygofer ( Fig. 24 ) in lateral view with apex tapered; ventral process ( Figs 24, 30 ) very long and straight, with nearly one fourth its length extending beyond pygofer apex. Aedeagus ( Figs 25, 26 ) simple, with pair of processes anteriorly near middle of aedeagal, shaft in lateral view; gonopore subapical. Material examined: 13 (Holotype, CAU), China: Xizang Autonomous Region, Yigong, 2300m, 29- July-1976, coll: Li Fasheng.

Distribution: China (Xizang).

Remarks: This species can be readily distinguished from other species of the genus by its very long and straight ventral process of the male pygofer ( Figs 24, 30 ).

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 30. Striatanus tibetaensis Li & Wang 21. habitus, dorsal view; 22. habitus, lateral view; 23. face; 24. male pygofer, lateral view; 25. aedeagus, ventral view; 26. aedeagus, lateral view; 27. style; 28. subgenital plate; 29. connective and style; 30. pygofer ventral process, lateral view.