Drabescoides nuchalis Jacobi
Creators: name: Qu, Ling
name: Li, Hu
name: Dai, Ren-Huai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Drabescoides
Drabescoides nuchalis

description: Drabescoides nuchalis (Jacobi)
(Figs. 1, 6)
Selenocephalus nuchalis Jacobi, 1943: 30, fig. 9.
Drabescus striatus Anufriev, 1971: 95 –116, figs. 45–50.
Drabescus nuchalis (Jacobi), Anufriev, 1979: 163 –171, figs. 3–6. Drabescoides nuchalis (Jacobi), Kwon & Lee, 1979: 53, figs. 3–6; Zhang, et al., 1997: 235 –245, fig. 1. Kutara fusca Cai & Kuoh, 1995: 90, figs. 29–34.
Kutara testaceea Cai & Kuoh, 1995: 91, figs. 35–40.
Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 6.8–7.6 mm.
Materal examined. 8 ♂♂, CHINA: Hebei Province, Wulingshan National Natural Reserve, 07–08–VIII–2011, collected by Yu Xiaofei, Fan Zhihua, Li Hu and Jiao Meng; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Xishui National Natural Reserve, 24–VI–2000, collected by Li Zizhong; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Leigongshan National Natural Reserve, Fangxiang, 930–1280 m, 04–VI–2005, collected by Yang Maofa; 1 ♂, CHINA: Guizhou Province, Mayanghe National Natural Reserve, 11–VI–2007, collected by Chen Xiangsheng; 1 ♂, CHINA: Shandong Province, Luoshan National Forest Park, 9–VIII–2011, collected by Zheng Weibin; 1 ♂, CHINA: Shandong Province, Kunlunshan National Natural Reserve, 11–VIII–2011, collected Long Jiankun; 14 ♂♂, CHINA: Shandong Province, Kunyushan National Forest Park, 9–VII–2013, collected by Li Bin and Yan Bin; 2 ♂♂, CHINA: Jiangxi Province, Jiulianshan National Natural Reserve, 01–03–VIII–2008, collected by Meng Zehong; 1 ♂, CHINA: Henan Province, Baiyunshan National Natural Reserve, 14–17–VIII–2008, collected by Li Yujian; 1 ♂, CHINA: Jilin Province, Chunhua Forest, 29–VII–2011, collected by Li Hu; 1 ♂, CHINA: Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna, 29–VII–2012, collected Yang Weicheng; 1 ♂, CHINA: Chongqing municipality, Jinyunshan National Natural Reserve, 13–VI–2008, collected by Li Hongrong.
Distribution. Widespread in China, Korea and Russia (Fig. 7).
Remarks. This species was first discovered by Jacobi (1943) and named Selenocephalus nuchalis. Subsquently Anufriev (1971) re-described it as a new species with a name of Drabescus striatus, but later (Anufriev (1979) recognized that this was a junior synonym for Drabscus nuchalis. Kwon & Lee (1979) studied the material collected from the localities and accordingly established a new genus Drabescoides for Selenocephalus nuchalis (Jacobi, 1943) (type species). Later, the genus was revised by Zhang (1997), who proposed Kutara fusca and K. testaceea as its junior synonyms.
The species can be readily recognized by the male pygofer (figs. 6c, 6f) with 2–5 processes and few macrosetae on the caudal region; style (fig. 6h) with apical process hook shaped; connective stem (fig. 6d) with apex greatly expended and T-shaped; aedeagal shaft (figs. 6a, 6b) with pair of lamellae from basally to distally and spinelike process at base; long basal paired processes of aedeagus; and the medial gonopore on aedeagal shaft dorsal surface.
description: Published as part of Qu, Ling, Li, Hu & Dai, Ren-Huai, 2014, Key to species of leafhopper genus Drabescoides Kwon & Lee (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), with description of a new species from Southern China, pp. 347-358 in Zootaxa 3811 (3) on page 350, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3811.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/227504