Parabolopona yunnanensis Xu & Zhang 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Deliang
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Parabolopona
Parabolopona yunnanensis

description: Parabolopona yunnanensis sp. nov.
(Figs. 1, 2)
Description. Body length (including tegmina), male: 6.8–7.2 mm, female: 7.0– 7.4 mm.
Body color yellowish. Crown, pronotum and scutellum (Fig. 1, A, B) with longitudinal or radial yellowish striations, symmetrically arranged. Hind margin of pronotum and lateral margin of scutellum (Fig. 1, A, B) with two vague brown spots respectively. Forewing (Fig. 1, A, E) veins yellowish. Leg (Fig. 1, C, E) with dark brown spots. Head (Fig. 1, A, B) approximately as wide as pronotum, anterior margin (Fig. 1, D) with two sharp carinae and numerous smaller irregular carinae. Crown (Fig. 1, A, B) sharply angled; median length twice as long as next to eyes; coronal suture distinct, extended to mid-length of vertex. Ocelli (Fig. 1, A, B, D) slightly distant from eyes, visible dorsally, approximately three times their own diameter from corresponding eyes; lateral frontal sutures (Fig. 1, C) not extending to corresponding ocelli. Face (Fig. 1, C) slightly wider than long; frontoclypeus tumid, shagreen, anterior margin depressed; clypellus apically expanded; lora large, wider than clypellus near base; gena with oblique wrinkles; antennae (Fig. 1, A, B, C) conspicuously longer than half of body length. Pronotum (Fig. 1, A, B) twice as wide as long, side margin moderately long, carinate. Forewing (Fig. 1, A, E) elongate, smoky apically, surpassing apex of abdomen. Profemur (Fig. 1, F) with anteromedial (AM1) row setae enlarged; intercalary (IC) row with about eight fine setae; anteroventral (AV) row nearly reduced. Hind femur (Fig. 1, G) with apical setal formula 2+2+1.
Anterior margin of pygophore (Fig. 2, J) with an apodeme on each side. Pygofer side (Fig. 2, J) apically tapering, nearly rounded posteriorly, without dorsoposterior process, with several macrosetae. Valve (Fig. 2, K, L) semicircular. Subgenital plate (Fig. 2, K, L) digitate, broad proximally and sharply constricted apically, with several fine hair-like microsetae arising from lateral margin. Style (Fig. 2, K, L, M, N) with apical process longish and footlike, lateral lobe not prominent, with a small subapical projection in ventral view. Connective (Fig. 2, J, K, O, P) Y-shaped, arms relatively short and slender, stem with long posterior process curved ventrad, with short dentiform process arising from ventral surface near basal 1/5. Aedeagus (Fig. 2, J, Q, R) situated dorsad of connective and linked to it by membrane from near mid-length of stem, dorsal apodeme well developed; shaft curved dorsad, with pair of small lateral retrorse processes near mid-length, apex with a pair of short lateral processes extended anterolaterad; dorsal atrium nearly as long as shaft. Gonopore (Fig. 2, R) large, subapical on posterior surface. Segment X (Fig. 2, J) large, sclerotized laterally and dorsally.
Female: Hind margin of 7 th sternite (Fig. 1, I) with V-shaped notch in middle, caudal margin convex. 3 rd valvulae (Fig. 1, I) prominently exceeding apex of pygofer.
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Shangyong Town, light trap, 3-V-2019, Coll. Lu Kewei (NWAFU). Paratype: 1♀, the data same as the holotype.
Etymology. The new species epithet is named after the type locality.
Remarks. This new species can be distinguished from all other species in the genus by the following unique characters: anterior margin of pygofer side with an apodeme; connective stem curved ventrad with a short dentate process arising near basal 1/ 5 in ventral view; aedeagal shaft with a pair of small lateral dentate processes.
description: Published as part of Xu, Deliang & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, Taxonomy of the Oriental leafhopper genus Parabolopona (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with a new species from China, pp. 189-195 in Zootaxa 4821 (1) on page 194, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4821.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/4398244