Armorseliza acontia Ai & Wang & Zhang 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ai, Deqiang
name: Wang, Yinglun
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Flatidae
Armorseliza
Armorseliza acontia

description: Armorseliza acontia sp. nov.
Etymology. The species name is derived from the Greek word “aconto”, which refers to the aedeagus having a long spine.
Diagnosis. This new species can be distinguished from other species of the genus by the following characters: mesonotum (Fig. 38) with median carina; apical fifth of aedeagus (Figs 42, 47, 54) with a pair of cephalad long and unbranched processes; aedeagus with a sharply short process at apical fourth of lateral portion; lateral lobe of periandrium with dorsal margin serrated.
Description. Size. Body length 8.3–9.2 mm.
Coloration. Head mottled brown, margins of frons slightly darker, clypeus with oblique stripes; vertex slightly darker than frons; eyes black, ocelli red; pronotum mottled brown; mesonotum and legs dark brown; tegmina brown with darker veins, Y-stem of clavus dark brown.
Head. Head (Fig. 38) including eyes narrower than pronotum; vertex wider than long, rounded into frons; anterior margin convex; lateral margins raised; posterior margin shallowly emarginate, disc depressed, almost covered by anterior margin of pronotum. Frons (Fig. 40) wider than long; widest at midline, lateral margins carinate, median longitudinal carina strongly raised at dorsal portion, weak at ventral portion. Frontoclypeal suture shallowly convex, clypeus convex (Fig. 40). Rostrum extending to metatrochanter. Ocelli present. Antennae very short (Fig. 39).
Thorax. Pronotum (Figs 38, 39) with anterior margin slightly concave in the middle, median carina present, postocular eminences conical. Mesonotum (Fig. 38) with anterior margin convex; disc flat, with weak median carina, lateral carinae absent. Metatibia with six spines apically, and metatarsal basal segment with nine spines apically.
Tegmen (Fig. 37). Tegmina elongate, about 2.2 times longer than wide, costal membrane wider than costal cell at the level of bulla (Fig. 37); costal margin sinuate, apical margin slightly convex. Three veins (Scp+R, Mp, CuA) arising from basal cell; Scp+R stem very short, ScP+RA crossing bulla; Y-stem of anal veins short and highly raised, one subapical line present.
Male terminalia. Anal tube (Figs 41, 44) in lateral view almost straight, apically inflated and bipartite in dorsal view. Pygofer (Fig. 41) ring-like, anterior margin strongly sinuate, ventral margin truncate, posterior margin convex. Genital style (Fig. 41) isosceles triangular, ventral margin convex, apical margin oblique, as long as dorsal margin, with single process at dorsocaudal portion. Phallic complex (Figs 42, 43, 45, 52, 55, 58) slightly arched; periandrium (Figs 46, 48, 50, 53, 56, 59) tubular, dorsal part membranous, dorsolateral emargination shallow, lateral emargination moderately wide; dorsal lobe produced caudad, lateral lobe with a wide, 3-branched process and dorsal margin serrated, ventral lobe slender, apex acute in ventral view.Aedeagus (Figs 47, 49, 51, 54, 57, 60) bipartite, each side of apex with a caudad process; a pair of long and unbranched cephalad processes at apical fifth of dorsal portion; lateral portion with a sharply short process, a small prominence beneath a hooked process.
Type material. Holotype, ♂, Nada, Hainan Province, China, vi.1963, Chou Io (NWAFU). Paratypes: 1♂, Jianfengling, Hainan Province, China, 15.xii.1974, Yang Jikun (CAU); 1♂, Jianfengling, Hainan Province, China, 2.iii.1982, Liu Yuanfu (CAF); 1♂, Nada, Hainan Province, China, 23/ 24.viii.1963, Chou Io & Lu Zheng (NWAFU); 1♂, Luodian, Guizhou Province, China, 500m, 5.vi.1981, Li Fasheng (CAU).
description: Published as part of Ai, Deqiang, Wang, Yinglun & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, A new genus and two new species in the tribe Selizini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) with a checklist for the tribe from China, pp. 368-382 in Zootaxa 4614 (2) on page 375, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3242468