Anyllis tiegsi
Creators: name: Liang, Ai-Ping
name: Wang, Rong-Rong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cercopidae
Anyllis
Anyllis tiegsi

description: Anyllis tiegsi (China)   
(Figures 1K–L, 5A–G)  
 Neoaphrophora tiegsi China, 1952: 791, figs. 1G,H, 2A – C; Metcalf, 1962: 431; Evans, 1966: 316, 317; Liang et al., 2005: 305. Holotype male, Australia (Victoria) (BMNH) [examined].   
 Anyllis tiegsi (China); Liang and Fletcher, 2003: 86–87, fig. 3; Liang et al., 2005: 301–305.   
 Description   
 Length (from apex of vertex to tip of forewings): male (n = 2), 5.0– 5.1 mm; female (n = 1), 6.0 mm.   
 General colour pattern and external appearance similar to A. pseudotiegsi sp. nov. General colour stramineous brown, scutellum with brown suffusion medially; frons stramineous with base dark brown; antennal sockets, scape and pedicel black or dark brown; clypeus stramineous; rostrum with apical segment pale yellowish; thorax beneath dark brown with pleurae partly yellowish; legs and claws dark brown, hind coxae and trochanters pale yellowish, hind tibiae and tarsi pale brown, tips of spines on hind tibiae and tarsi black; forewings (Figure 1K,L) brown, apical marginal area nearly black, clavus with basal two-thirds stramineous, corium with the following areas or fasciae whitish: the extreme basal costal area, an oblique fascia running from middle costal margin to clavus beyond apex of scutellum, a subtriangular marking on the subapical costal and subcostal area (the veins within the marking brown) and an oblique fascia running from the inner basal edge of this whitish subapical costal and subcostal marking to the claval apex; the apex of clavus and two irregular spots on subapical corium whitish. Abdomen black with segmental margins white. Female with black punctures much reduced ventrally, legs with femora and pleura ochreous.   
External structure as in the generic description. Head (Figures 1K, 5A) maximum width (including eyes) 2.9–3.5 times as long as median length. Vertex (Figures 1K, 5A) with a median carina, median length 0.6–0.7 times as long as length of pronotum medially. Frons (Figures 1L, 5B) in males moderately bulbous, not strongly compressed laterally, median longitudinal carina indistinct. Pronotum (Figures 1K, 5A) with median longitudinal carina obsolete on posterior half, median length 0.5–0.6 times as long as maximum width.  
Male genitalia with pygofer (Figure 5C) high, wider ventrally than dorsally, anterior margin concave medially and posterior margin nearly straight in lateral view. Basal anal processes (Figure 5C,E) relatively short, the inner edges covered with fine spines on apical two-thirds. Subgenital plates (Figure 5C,D) relatively short and broad, apically distinctly bilobed, both plates widely separated each other. Genital styles (Figure 5C,D,F,G) relatively stout, moderately broad mesially, evenly narrowed towards apex over apical one-third in lateral view, apically bidentate. Aedeagal shaft (Figure 5C,G) relatively stout and broad, slightly arched anteriorly, anterior edge covered with many fine spines in lateral view; gonopore dorsal.  
 Material examined   
 Holotype Male, [Australia:] Victoria, Melbourne, O.W. Tiegs (BMNH).   
 Holotype ♂, [Australia:] Victoria, Melbourne, O.W. Tiegs (BMNH).   
 Other material examined   
Australia, New South Wales: one male, New England National Park, NSW, 11 February 1968 (D.H. Colless) (ANIC). Australia, Victoria: one female, 15 km west Ballarat, Vic., 12 November 1969 (E.F. Riek) (ANIC).  
 Distribution   
Australia (Victoria and the higher parts of southeast New South Wales).  
 Remarks   
 This species is similar to A. pseudotiegsi sp. nov. from Tasmania but can be distinguished from the latter by the slightly larger body (length male 5.0– 5.1 mm, female 6.0 mm); vertex with a median longitudinal carina (Figures 1K, 5A); pronotum with median longitudinal carina obsolete on posterior half (Figures 1K, 5A); pygofer with basal anal processes with inner edges covered with fine spines on apical two-thirds (Figure 5E) and the minutiae of the male genitalia (Figure 5A–G).
description: Published as part of Liang, Ai-Ping & Wang, Rong-Rong, 2012, A revision of the endemic Australian spittlebug genus Anyllis Kirkaldy (Hemiptera: Aphrophoridae) with descriptions of two new species, pp. 1005-1023 in Journal of Natural History 46 (15 - 16) on pages 1020-1022, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2011.651646, http://zenodo.org/record/5199722