Kirbyana lini Tsaur &amp; Hsu 2003
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
name: Zhi, Yan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Kirbyana
Kirbyana lini

description: <i>Kirbyana lini</i> Tsaur &amp; Hsu, 2003 <i>Kirbyana lini</i> Tsaur &amp; Hsu, 2003: 434. (Fig. 39‒41) <b>Supplementary description.</b> <i>Female genitalia</i>. Posterior margin of pregenital sternite concave. Tergite IX (Fig. 41A, D) moderately sclerotised, 1.1 times longer than wide. Anal tube (Fig. 41A, C) short, nearly rectangular, 1.2 times wider than long in dorsal view; dorsal and ventral margins slightly widened towards apex in lateral view, anal styles strap-shaped. Gonapophysis VIII (Fig. 41E) elongate, and slightly curved upwards. Gonapophysis IX (Fig. 41F) with one middle tooth, at a distance ratio, between middle tooth to apex and length of denticulate portion, of 1.9. Gonoplac (Fig. 41G) rod-like, 3.8 times longer than wide. Posterior vagina (Fig. 41H, I) elongate. The left side of the ventral wall of posterior vagina with a long sclerite, thin and twisted in the middle, a nearly triangular sclerite on the right side basally; the dorsal wall with a small long sclerite in the middle aera. <b>Material examined.</b> 3&amp;male;&amp;male; 1&amp;female;, CHINA: Laiyanghe National Forest Park (22°36’N, 101°0’E), Simao City, Yunnan Province, 23 August 2014, leg. Zheng-Xiang Zhou; 5&amp;male;&amp;male; 3&amp;female;&amp;female;, Yuanjiang County (23°36’N, 101°59’E), Yunnan Province, 27 August 2014, leg. Zheng-Xiang Zhou; 1&amp;male;, Menghai County (21°57’N, 100°27’E), Yunnan Province, 13 July 2013, leg. Ji-Chun Xing; 7&amp;male;&amp;male; 8&amp;female;&amp;female;, Longling County (24°35’N, 98°41’E), Yunnan Province, 11 August 2010, Xiang-Sheng Chen; 2&amp;male;&amp;male;, Wangmo County (25°10’N, 106°7’E), Guizhou Province, 19 August 2012, leg. Zhi-Min Chang; 1&amp;female;, Fuxing Town, Wangmo County, Guizhou Province, 20 August 2012, Shi-Yan Xu; 1&amp;male;, Dayi Town, Wangmo County, Guizhou Province, 16 July 2016, leg. Liang-Jing Yang and Yong-Shun Ding; 2&amp;male;&amp;male;, Deshun Town (26°10’N, 109°20’E), Wangmo County, Guizhou Province; 14 July 2016, leg. Zheng-Xue Zhao; 1&amp;male;, Luodian County (25°26’N, 106°45’E), Guizhou Province, 15 September 2015, leg. Meng-Shu Dong; 1&amp;male;, Maolan National Nature Reserve (25°17’N, 108°4’E), Libo County, Guizhou Province, 20 July 2011, Wei-Bin Zheng; 1&amp;male;, Sinan County (27°58’N, 108°15’E), Guizhou Province, 24 July 2016, leg. Zheng-Xiang Zhou; 1&amp;male;, Sinan County, Guizhou Province, 24 July 2016, leg. Zheng-Xiang Zhou; 1&amp;male;, Siyetun Village, Qinggangpo Town, Sinan County, Guizhou Province, 3 August 2016, Yong-Shun Ding. <b>Host plant.</b> Grass. <b>Distribution.</b> China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Taiwan). <b>Remarks.</b> This species can be distinguished from the other species of the genus by the following characters: periandrium with a compressed production on apical two-thirds of left side; ventral margin of periandrium with 1 short spinous process nearly in the middle and 2 longer ones at apex; dorsal margin of endosoma with 1 long process and 1 small subulate process.
description: Published as part of <i>Chen, Xiang-Sheng &amp; Zhi, Yan, 2023, Taxonomic study of the Eucarpiini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae) from China, pp. 1-100 in Zootaxa 5347 (1)</i> on page 57, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5347.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8390836
description: {"references": ["Tsaur, S. - C. &amp; Hsu, T. - C. (2003) The Cixiidae of Taiwan, Part VII: Tribe Pintaliini (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea). Zoological Studies, 42 (3), 431 - 443."]}