Processina topoarmata He & Yang & Yu 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: He, Hongli
name: Yang, Maofa
name: Yu, Xiaofei
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Processina
Processina topoarmata

description: Processina topoarmata sp. nov.
(Figs. 5–8, 13–14, 34–44)
Description. Crown yellowish white, with large black spot medially and black anterior margin (Figs. 5, 7). Eyes and ocelli pale. Pronotum tawny, infused anteriorly and posteriorly with dark. Scutellum yellowish white, basal triangles dark brown (Figs. 5, 7). Forewing dark brown, translucent, basal half of costal margin black, veins dull yellow (Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8). Face pale with dark brown wide median longitudinal band across frontoclypeus, complete in male and interrupted medially in female (Figs.13, 14). Venter of thorax pale, legs pale with fore tibiae and tarsi, mid tarsi, and apices of hind tarsi dark brown.
Male genitalia. Male pygofer (Fig. 34) well produced posteriorly, in lateral view with posterior margin angularly convex, ventral margin with small setae; pygofer process slender and short, extending posteriorly only to middle part of lobe, unbranched. Subgenital plates (Fig. 37) extending to pygofer apex, surface with uniseriate macrosetae medially, with many microsetae mostly on outer lateral portion. Aedeagus (Figs. 35, 36) with shaft bent dorsad subbasally, with pair of apical long process extended laterad and sinuate, and thorn-shaped median ventral process at midlength; basal apodeme well developed, broad in lateral view. Connective (Fig. 38) Y-shaped. Style (Fig. 39) slender and short, apex narrowly rounded with dense fine setae.
Female Genitalia. Female seventh sternite (Fig. 40) with posterior margin parabolically rounded; first valvulae (Figs. 41, 42) relatively slender, slightly tapered through most of length then strongly and evenly tapered to acute apex, dorsal and ventral preapical sculpturing densely scaly; second valvulae (Figs. 43, 44) similar to that of P. chandrai but with dorsal teeth very poorly developed.
Measurement. Male: 5.1 mm, female: 5.6 mm.
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, THAILAND, Chiang Mai Doi Phahompok NP Kewl om 1/m ontane forest, 20°3.549'N 99°8.552'E, 2174 m, Malaise trap, 31.vii–7.viii.2007, Wongchai. P. leg. T2953. Paratype: 1♀, THAILAND, Mae Hong Son Namlok Mae Surin NP Beside Small stream, 19°20.803 'N 97 °59.014'E, 293 m, Malaise trap, 28.x–4.xi.2007, Areerat Kumkhun leg. T2817.
Etymology. The specific name combines "topo-" (place) with "arma" (weapon) and refers to the thorn-shaped preapical process of the aedeagus.
Remarks. The new species is similar to P. dashahensis in appearance, but differs from the later in having a dark brown longitudinal wide band on the frontoclypeus, the veins of the forewing off-yellow, the aedeagus with only an unpaired thorn-shaped process at midlength and the pygofer process unbranched.
Distribution. Thailand.
description: Published as part of He, Hongli, Yang, Maofa & Yu, Xiaofei, 2018, Three new species of the leafhopper genus Processina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae) from Thailand, pp. 279-287 in Zootaxa 4531 (2) on pages 281-283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/2614646