Leofa (Prasutagus) pulla Duan &amp; Zhang &amp; Zahniser 2012, sp. n.
Creators: name: Duan, Yani
name: Zhang, Yalin
name: Zahniser, James N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Leofa
Leofa pulla

description: <i>Leofa</i> (<i>Prasutagus</i>) <i>pulla</i> sp. n. (Plate I, Figure 1) Length of male (including tegmen): 2.6mm. Black, with white markings (Plate I: A). Vertex mostly black with median T-shaped white marking medially at crown-face transition; posterior margin narrowly white (Plate I: C). Ocellus and eye white (Plate I: B). Face black (Plate I: D). Pronotum black except apex, with white median longitudinal stripe (Plate I: C). Scutellum black except lateral margins (Plate I: C). Most of forewing dark brown, middle of cells and appendix translucent white, with white waxy area on some veins (Plate I: A). Venter of thorax, abdomen, and leg nearly completely black (Plate I: B). <b>PLATE I. <i>Leofa</i> (<i>Prasutagus</i>) <i>pulla</i> sp. n.</b> A: habitus, dorsal view; B: habitus, lateral view; C: head and thorax, dorsal view; D: face. Vertex nearly as long as interocular width (Plate I: C). Face shorter than wide, clypellus not extending beyond genal curve (Plate I: D). Pronotum about 2.5x as wide as long, nearly as long as vertex (Plate I: C). Scutellum slightly shorter than pronotum (Plate II: C). Forewing macropterous with four apical and three anteapical cells, inner anteapical cell open basally, appendix developed (Plate I: A). Hindwing not reduced. Segment X broad, strongly sclerotized, with broad lateroapical lobes extending ventrally (Fig. 1A). <b>Male genitalia.</b> Pygofer in lateral view with three lobes; dorsal lobe with 3–4 macrosetae arising dorsally, with recurved process arising medially and extending posteriorly; process with one dorsoapical point, one ventroapical point and one lateral preapical tooth; median lobe with 2–3 macrosetae more or less arranged in horizontal row, with short gracile ventroapical extension; ventral lobe without macrosetae (Figs 1A–C). Valve long, triangular (Fig. 1D). Subgenital plate subtruncate apically, apex indented, with about 13 scattered macrosetae apically (Fig. 1D). Connective V-shaped (Fig. 1H). Style preapical lobe long, blunt; apophysis bent laterad at 90° angle, pointed at apex (Fig. 1E). Aedeagus strongly recurved in lateral view, with three pairs of flanges; base of aedeagus articulated with long recurved ventral paraphysis (Figs 1F–G). <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype: &amp;male;, Thailand, Loei Province, Phu Ruea NP Reservior, 17° 28. 826' N 101° 21. 33' E, 931m, Malaise trap, 19–26.i.2007, Patikhom Tumtip leg., T1544 (QSBG). <b>Remarks.</b> This species is easily distinguished from other members of the subgenus by its much darker coloration, although it retains the distinctive pale stripe in the clavus characteristic of other <i>Loefa</i> (<i>Prasutagus</i>) species. The male genitalia are very similar to those of <i>L.</i> (<i>P.</i>) <i>palearctica</i> Zahniser, 2008, but can be distinguished from the latter by the shape of the pygofer process and aedeagus. <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet takes its name from the Latin “pullus” for its blackish color.
description: Published as part of <i>Duan, Yani, Zhang, Yalin &amp; Zahniser, James N., 2012, A new species of Leofa (Prasutagus) Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Chiasmini) from Thailand with a checklist of Leofa, pp. 53-58 in Zootaxa 3537</i> on pages 54-57
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