Indolipa kurseongensis Distant 1911
Creators: name: Guo, Hong-Wei
name: Feng, Ji-Nian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Indolipa
Indolipa kurseongensis

description: Indolipa kurseongensis (Distant, 1911)
(Figs 12–25)
Oliarus kurseongensis Distant, 1911: 737; Fennah, 1956: 451; Van Stalle, 1991:51. Indolipa kurseongensis (Distant), Emeljanov, 2001: 72.
Description. Body length: 3 6.5–7.0 mm, Ƥ 7.0–8.0 mm.
Head. Face piceous with carinae yellowish, median longitudinal carina prominent; median carina of frons forked at apex; frons flat but postclypeus swollen. Vertex about 1.8 times as long as broad, with obtusely angled basal emargination; subapical transverse carina V-shaped, connected with apical border by two small longitudinal carinae; median longitudinal carina absent (Fig. 13). Rostrum reaching hind coxae.
Thorax. Pronotum black, carinae and borders pale yelllow; hind margin obtusely angled. Mesonotum moderately flat, black, with concolorous carinae. Tegmina whitish, semihyaline, 2.8 times as long as broad; veins brownish with dark brown setiferous granules; pterostigma brown, elongate triangular in shape; RA unbranched, RP apically trifurcated, MA apically bifurcated, MP apically bifurcated, CuA bifurcated; Sc+R forked distad of fork CuA1+CuA2, r-m crossvein distinctly basad of fork MA+MP; apex with ten cells (Fig. 12). Claval veins Pcu and A1 united centre of clavus. Hind wing with MP and CuA1 complete terminal fusion. Legs with femora brown, tibiae and tarsi yellowish; hind tibia with six apical teeth and three lateral spines. Chaetotaxy of hind tarsomere 6/5.
Male genitalia. Anal segment in lateral view longer than broad, asymmetrical, slender, apical lobe with ventral margin convex medially and with two excisions submedially (Figs 14, 16, 17). Pygofer without ventromedian process, replaced by two small protuberances (Fig. 15); lateral lobes of pygofer subtriangular, nearly symmetrical, with several setae along apical margin (Figs 14, 17); outer borders of pygofer with semicircular furrow-like sulcus near middle. Genital styles greatly enlarged apically, thumb-shaped in lateral view, margin and outer surface setose; shaft short, a deep excavation present between shaft and dilated apex, excavation large, its proximal margin smoothly rounded and bearing short, stout setae, its apical margin (i.e. basal laterodorsal angle of dilated apex (Emeljanov 2001)) with a tusk-like tooth (Figs 21, 23). Aedeagus wound helix-like. Flagellum convoluted with two sinuations, a right one (Fig. 20) and a left one (Fig. 22). Aedeagus in total with 7 sclerotized processes. Apex of flagellum with a long rod-like apical process, curving and directed left-dorsocaudad, its apex slightly roundly expanded. Basiventral area of right lateral sinuation of flagellum giving rise to a sclerotized, basally sheet-like process which is divided into three processes, inner one of these the longest, tusk-like, directed ventrad primarily; middle one shorter, tusk-like, curving cephaloventrally; outer one curly (Fig. 20). Basidorsal area of left lateral sinuation of flagellum giving rise to a oblique Y-shaped process, with basal shaft long, slender, straight, then unequally forked apically into two prominent rami; inner ramus broader, falciform, its basal portion directed to inner side, then curving cephaloventrally, rounded apically; outer ramus small, tapering and curving initially caudoventrally in basal half then caudally in apical half (Fig. 22). Apex of aedeagus with large S-shaped, apically tongue-like process (Figs 20, 22). Basiventral process of periandrium spoon-like, directed caudad (Figs 18, 20, 22).
Female genitalia. Pregenital sternite with caudal border convex in middle. Ovipositor with first pair of valvulae relatively short, broad basally, then abruptly constricted near apices and acuminated to end, which is slightly curving inward and caliper-like; second pair rudimentary; third pair well developed, broader and longer than first pair; first and third pairs of valvulae with fine setae (Fig. 24). Anal segment ovate, somewhat narrower than half width of pygofer (Figs 24, 25). Pygofer with a large elliptic wax plate between anal segment and ovipositor (Fig. 24).
Material examined. CHINA: 2 3, 1 Ƥ, Tibet Autonomous Region, Chayu County, Dongjiong, 1570 m, 24-VI-1978 (Fa-Sheng Li) (NWAFU); 1 Ƥ, same data, but 25-VI-1978 (Fa-Sheng Li) (NWAFU); 2 3, same data, but Shajiong Township, 1700 m, 29-VI-1978 (Fa-Sheng Li) (NWAFU); 1 3, 2 Ƥ, Tibet Autonomous Region, Motuo County, Beibeng Township, 850 m, 19-VI-1983 (Yin-Heng Han) (NWAFU).
Distribution. China (Tibet), India.
Remarks. I. kurseongensis is similar to I. gansuensis and I. tappanus in external appearance and male genitalic configuration. Diagnosis of the three species is noted in the remarks of I. gansuensis.
This species is recorded here for the first time from the Palaearctic Region (China’s Tibet Autonomous Region).
description: Published as part of Guo, Hong-Wei & Feng, Ji-Nian, 2010, A new species of the genus Indolipa Emeljanov, 2001 from China (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae: Pentastirini), with a checklist of world species, pp. 33-43 in Zootaxa 2668 on pages 38-41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.276421