Magadha taibaishanensis Wang 1989
Creators: name: Long, Jian-Kun
name: Yang, Lin
name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Achilidae
Magadha
Magadha taibaishanensis

description: Magadha taibaishanensis Wang, 1989
(Figs 83–98)
Magadha taibaishanensis Wang, 1989: 95.
Measurements. Body length (from apex of vertex to tip of forewing): male 6.4–7.6 mm (n = 37), female 6.8–8.8 mm (n = 27); forewing length: male 5.4–6.6 mm (n = 37), female 5.6–7.6 mm (n = 27).
Coloration. Pale yellowish brown to fuscous (Figs 83–89). Vertex, pronotum and tegula pale yellowish brown (Fig. 87). Frons light brown, with 1 broad ivory-white band across the middle and 1 dark brown band at apex (Fig. 89). Clypeus ivory-white, with anteclypeus and apex of postclypeus brown. Genae fuscous, above eyes, before ocellus and across apical third with ivory-white markings, antennae brown, eyes dark brown and ocellus ivorywhite (Fig. 88). Rostrum brown with apex dark brown. Mesonotum pale yellowish brown, area between lateral carinae with posterior two-thirds dark brown. Forewing fuscous, basal two-thirds with irregular dark markings (Figs 83–86, 90). Hindwing pale brown, veins dark brown. Legs pale brown. Abdomen dark brown.
Head and thorax. Ratio width of vertex from base to length in midline 2.1. Ratio length of frons in midline to maximum width 1.6, ratio maximum width to width at base 1.7. Ratio length of postclypeus in midline to length of frons 0.7. Ratio of apical to subapical segment of rostrum 1.2. Ratio length of pronotum in midline to length of vertex 1.2. Mesonotum in midline 3.7 times longer than pronotum, 2.0 times longer than pronotum and vertex combined. Forewing with ratio of length to maximum width 2.8. Hindwing with ratio of length to maximum width 1.7.
Male genitalia. Anal segment in dorsal view subquadrate (Fig. 92), as long as wide (maximum width), apical margin slightly round. Pygofer in lateral view (Fig. 93) with dorsal margin distinctly longer than ventral margin, with the narrowest part in the middle, anterior margin concave; in ventral view (Fig. 94), medioventral process of pygofer entire and rectangular, with base two-thirds convex in the midline. Genital style distinctly longer than wide, with 3 processes arising from middle of dorsal margin; inner surfaces near dorsal margin at basal third with 1 relatively long and bent process (Fig. 95). Aedeagus with phallobase sheath-shaped and symmetrical, dorsal lobe shorter than the lateral and ventral lobe (Figs 96, 98), with apical margin angularly convex in the middle (Fig. 96), each lateral margin dorsad rising from 1 valviform process (Figs 96, 98); ventral lobe (Fig. 97) with apical margin deeply cleft in the middle, ventral surface ventrad rising from 3 processes, directed basad, the middle one long, spine-like, 2 others symmetrical beside the midline, each with many sharp teeth apically (Figs 97–98)
Material Examined. CHINA, Shaanxi: 2 ♂♂, Taibaishan National Natural Reserve, light trap, 11 July 2012, Z.-M. Chang; 3 ♂♂, 3 ♀♀, Foping National Natural Reserve, 15–17 July 2010, H. Li and Z.-H. Fan; 1 ♀, Foping National Natural Reserve, 4–7 Aug. 2010, P. Zhang; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Heihe Forest Park, Zhouzhi, 9–12 Aug. 2010, Y.- L. Zheng and Z.- M. Chang. Henan: 6 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Niufushan National Natural Reserve, 2 July 2010, H. Li and Z.- H. Fan; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Taiping, Xixia, 30 July–1 Aug. 2010, H. Li and Z.-H. Fan. Sichuan: 1 ♂, Qianfoshan, Mianyang, light trap, 13 Aug. 2007, Z.-H. Meng; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Shuimogou, Guangyuan, light trap, 16 Aug. 2008, Z.-H. Meng; 1 ♂, Labahe, Quantian, 25 July 2012, H. Li. Yunnan: 1 ♂, Tengchong, 13 Aug. 2006, Z.-G. Zhang. Guizhou: 1 ♂, Dashahe, Daozhen, X.-S. Chen; 1 ♂, Mayanghe National Natural Reserve, 6 Oct. 2009, Y.-J. Li; 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, 13–14 Sep. 2005, Z.-Z. Li and B. Zhang; 8 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, light trap, 2–4 July 2011, J.-K. Long; 3 ♂♂, 5 ♀♀, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, 4–6 July 2011, J.-K. Long; 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, light trap, 3–6 July 2011, W.-B. Zheng; 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, 5 July 2011, W.-B. Zheng.
Distribution. China (Guizhou, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan) (new records for Oriental region).
Remarks. Wang (1990) described M. taibaishanensis based on 1 female specimen from Taibaishan National Natural Reserve, Shaanxi Province, China. Two of the male specimens examined and described here were collected in the same locality as holotype and show similar markings on head and thorax.
description: Published as part of Long, Jian-Kun, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2014, A review of the genus Magadha Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Achilidae), pp. 235-256 in Zootaxa 3872 (3) on pages 247-255, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3872.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/249541