Armorseliza nigromaculata Ai & Wang & Zhang 2019, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Ai, Deqiang
name: Wang, Yinglun
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Flatidae
Armorseliza
Armorseliza nigromaculata

description: Armorseliza nigromaculata sp. nov.
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin words “niger” meaning black and “macula” meaning “spot”.
Diagnosis. This new species resembles Armorseliza lignaria (Walker, 1851) n. comb., but can be differentiated by the following characters: mesonotum (Fig. 63) without carinae; apex of aedeagus (Figs 67, 72, 79) with a pair of small cephalad teeth; apical fourth of aedeagus with pair of cephalad and 2-branched processes.
Description. Size. Body length 8.5–9.8 mm.
Coloration. Head brown, margins of frons slightly darker, clypeus with oblique stripes; frons light brown with two black dots at top; eyes black, ocelli red; pronotum and mesonotum brown, mesonotum with three black dots at front, disc light brown, legs light brown; tegmina brown, with an oval dark spot in the middle, Y-stem of clavus dark brown.
Head: Head (Fig. 63) including eyes slightly narrower than pronotum; vertex wider than long, rounded into frons; anterior margin truncate or slightly concave; lateral margins raised; posterior margin shallowly emarginate, disc depressed, almost covered by anterior margin of pronotum. Frons (Fig. 65) wider than long; widest part at midline, lateral margins raised, median longitudinal carina slightly raised at dorsal portion, obsolete at ventral portion. Frontoclypeal suture shallowly convex; clypeus (Fig. 65) convex. Rostrum extending to meta-trochanter. Ocelli present. Antennae very short (Fig. 64).
Thorax. Pronotum (Figs 63, 64) with anterior margin truncate, median carina weakly visible, postocular eminences conical. Mesonotum (Fig. 63) with anterior margin convex; disc flat, without longitudinal carina. Metatibia with six spines apically; metatarsal basal segment with ten spines apically.
Tegmen (Fig. 62). Tegmina elongate, about 2.3 times longer than wide, costal membrane wider than costal cell at the level of bulla (Fig. 62); costal margin sinuate, apical margin convex. Three veins (Scp+R, Mp, CuA) arising from basal cell, Scp+R stem very short, ScP+RA crossing raised bulla; Y-stem of anal veins short and highly raised; one subapical line present.
Male terminalia. Pygofer (Fig. 66) ring-like. Genital style (Fig. 66) isosceles triangular, ventral margin convex, apical margin oblique, as long as dorsal margin, with single process at dorsocaudal portion. Anal tube (Figs 66, 69) evenly arched, apex bipartite in dorsal view. Phallic complex (Figs 67, 68, 70, 77, 80, 83) slightly arched; periandrium (Figs 71, 73, 75, 78, 81, 84) tubular, dorsal part membranous, dorsolateral emargination shallow; lateral emargination moderately wide; dorsal lobe produced caudad, lateral lobe with a narrow, 3-branched process, ventral lobe slender with a row of small teeth, apex of ventral part acute. Aedeagus (Figs 72, 74, 76, 79, 82, 85) bipartite, each side of apex with a pair of small cephalad processes; a pair of long, cephalad and 2-branched processes at apical fourth of dorsal part; lateral part with a small prominence beneath a hooked process.
Type material. Holotype, ♂, Tongguling, Hainan Province, China, 16m, 26.iv.2008, Men Qiulei (NWAFU). Paratypes: 1♂, Jianfengling, Hainan Province, China, 15.xii.1974, Li Fasheng (CAU); 1♂, Jianfengzhen, Hainan Province, China, 170m, 18.vii.2009, Wang Manqiang & Meng Rui (NWAFU); 1♂, Bawangling, Hainan Province, China, 600m, 18.v.2008, Fu Qiang (NWAFU); 1♂, Wanning, Hainan Province, China, 10m, 14.vi.1960, Li Suofu (IZCAS); 1♂, Bawangling, Hainan Province, China, 176m, 18.v.2008, Men Qiulei (NWAFU).
description: Published as part of Ai, Deqiang, Wang, Yinglun & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, A new genus and two new species in the tribe Selizini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae) with a checklist for the tribe from China, pp. 368-382 in Zootaxa 4614 (2) on pages 375-380, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3242468