Ariptyelus subauropilosus Shih and Yang, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Shih, Hsien-Tzung
name: Yang, Jeng-Tze
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Ariptyelus
Ariptyelus subauropilosus

description: Ariptyelus subauropilosus Shih and Yang sp. nov.
(Figs. 5, 6)
Coloration: Body light brown, ventral thorax dark brown in each side. Eyes dark brown; antenna brown, 3rd segment dark brown; vertex yellowish brown, dark brown centrally indistinct, median carina brown, except light brown at base. Frons in dorsal view brown, median carina brown, frons in ventral view with basal part yellowish brown, transverse band dark brown, apical part yellowish brown; gena and base of mouth part brown. Pronotum brown mottled. Mesoscutellum brown, yellow at tip. Tegmen (Fig. 5 C) dark brown, apical half with dark brown marks irregularly; distinctly transverse band at middle, darker on costal margin and lighter on cubital area. Hind leg brown.
Structure: Head width: body width: body length= 1:1.3: 2.8. Head in ventral view rhombus, about 1.8 times wider at base than median length; about 3.4 times wider than long from dorsal aspect. Pronotum wider than median length at widest part about 1.6:1. Tegmen (Fig. 5 C) subquadrate, anal margin: posterior margin: length of tegmen = 1.0:1.5:3.1; LBW: LMW: LT= 1:2:2.8. Wings (Fig. 5 D) with 4 apical cells, apical cells with first longer than third 1.4:1. Wing coupling apparatus with 3 hooks (Fig. 5 F) on basal part of costal margin. Hind tibia with apical spines arranged in 2 rows, upper row with 8 spines, lower one with 9 spines.
Male Genitalia: Pygofer in lateral view (Fig. 6 A), wider than long about 1.3:1; basal margin of pygofer straight, abruptly curved apically at ventral third, then protruding basally, and curved ventrally; dorsal process of pygofer conelike in lateral view, directed posteriorly, reaching at middle of abdominal segment X; ventral process of pygofer developed in lateral view, shorter than ventral length of pygofer about 1:1.7; ventral process at widest part narrower than basal width of pygofer about 1:4.9. Pygofer subquadrate in ventral view (Fig. 6 B), cleft as V-shaped at middle of apical margin, ventral process of pygofer produced bilobed; each lobe triangular, acute at tip, directed mesad. Aedeagus, trapezoidal in lateral view (Fig. 6 E). Genital styles (Figs. 6 C, 6D), with width of apical part about 0.5 times length (WAGS: LAGS= 1:2) on outer side, margin prominent except basal third on inner side.
Measurements: See Table 2.
Holotype: M ale, INDIA, Tamil Nadu, 32km. E. Kodaikanal, 1050m., Sept.. 29. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien; Holotype depository: Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI).
Paratypes: INDIA, 2 females, Mahar., 6km. SW. Mahabaleshwar, Oct. 19. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (TARI, ZMHB); 1 male, 1 female, Mahar., Kate’s Point, 6km. NE. Mahabaleshar, Oct. 19. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (TARI); 1 male, Mahar., 1km. Kate’s Point, 5km. NE. Mahabaleswhar, Oct. 19. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (TARI); 3 males, 3 females, Mahar., 1334m., Panchgani Tableland, Oct. 19. 1985, C. W. & L. B.
O’Brien (TARI, ENCHU, NMNS); 1 female, Karnataka, Nandi Hills, top, Oct. 5. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (NTU); 1 male, Karnataka, Nandi Hills, 1200m., Oct. 5. 1985, C. W. & L. B. O’Brien (TARI); NEPAL, 1 male, Sun Khosi Tai, 2150m, 2, V, [19]62, leg. G. Ebert (ZSM).
Etymology: Named for its external morphology is very similar to the species A. auropilosus (Matsumura, 1907).
Distribution: India, Nepal.
Remarks: This species is very similar to A. auropilosus in size and external morphology, but is readily distinguished by the male genitalia. This species is much larger than A. arisanus.
description: Published as part of Shih, Hsien-Tzung & Yang, Jeng-Tze, 2007, Revision of the genus Ariptyelus Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Aphrophoridae), pp. 57-68 in Zootaxa 1592 on pages 65-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.178585