Pediopsis bannaensis Yang & Zhang, 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Yang, Liyuan
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Pediopsis
Pediopsis bannaensis

description: Pediopsis bannaensis sp. nov.
(Figs. 29–39)
Description: Length. ♂4.3mm.
Coloration. Body light brown (Fig. 29). Face brown, with two black spots close to upper margin, dorsad of ocelli (Fig. 32). Pronotum marked with fuscous lines and dots, pair of round black spots on anterior margin, behind eyes (Fig. 31). Scutellum brown, bearing prominent red brown angles and median longitudinal black band, pair of black spots upon transverse depression (Fig. 31). Forewing light brown, veins fuscous (Fig. 30).
Morphology. Head including eyes almost equal in width to pronotum. Pronotum strongly produced above head. Scutellum longer than pronotum, with curved suture (Fig. 31). Face longer than wide, densely punctate. Ocelli situated more than 5 times closer to adjacent eyes than to each other (Fig. 32). Forewing with two anteapical cells (Fig. 30).
Male genitalia. Pygofer broad, slightly elongate, caudally truncated. Subgenital plate long, slightly incurved, with irregular distal row of setae (Fig. 33). Connective with anterior fingerlike protrusion in middle between dorsally bent arms (Figs. 37, 38). Aedeagus strongly tapered from wide base to narrow apex in lateral aspect, gonopore apical (Figs. 34, 35). Style parallel-margined, with tapered end (Fig. 36). Dorsal connective bow-shaped, with footlike anterior processes at middle part (Fig. 39).
Female unknown.
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, China: Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 570m, 28 November 2009, coll. Tang Guo (NWAFU); Paratypes: 1♂, same data as holotype; 2♂♂, Thailand: Sakon Nakhon, Phu Phan NP Crk, N16°55.789´E103°54.158´, 13–19 June 2006, coll. Winlon Khongnara (INHS); 1♂, Thailand: Chiang Mai, Doi Chiang Dao WS Nature Trail, N19°24.187´E98°55.312´, 31 July–7 August 2007, coll. Songkranl Jagsu & Apichat Watwanich (INHS).
Diagnosis. The new species resembles Pediopsis malayana Tishetshkin in the shape of the dorsal connective, but the later has wide and short aedeagus that is abruptly bent in the distal half in lateral view and constricted medially in posterior view. The body coloration and the shape of the style are also different.
Etymology. This new species epithet refers to the type locality, Xishuangbanna in Yunnan Province.
FIGURES 1–16. (1–8) M. duuschulus n. rec.; (9–16) M. niger n. rec.; (1, 5, 9, 13) Body, dorsal view; (2, 6, 10, 14) Habitus, lateral view; (3, 7, 11, 15) Head and pronotum, dorsal view; (4, 8, 12, 16) Face.
FIGURES 17–28. (17–22) M. duuschulus n. rec.; (23–28) M. niger n. rec.; (17, 20, 23, 26) Aedeagus, ventral view; (18, 21, 24, 27) Aedeagus, lateral view; (19, 22, 25, 28) Style, lateral view.
description: Published as part of Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, New records and synonymy in the genus Macropsidius (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Macropsinae) from China and description of a new Pediopsis species, pp. 487-492 in Zootaxa 4021 (3) on pages 488-490, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/238651