Exitianus indicus
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Exitianus
Name
Exitianus indicus (Distant) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Athysanus indicus Distant, 1908: 344.
- Athysanus atkinsoni; Distant 1908[1]: 345. Synonymized by Ross 1968[2]: 12.
- Exitianus indicus; Ross 1968[2]: 12, figs 9–10,26–30, 69.
- Exitianus major; Ahmed et al. 1988[3]: 10, fig. 1. Synonymized by Khatri and Webb 2010[4]: 10.
Description
Length. Male: 4.0–4.5mm; female: 4.0–5.2mm.
Yellow-brown with variable transverse arcuate brown band on vertex (Plate II: A–E); frontoclypeus with faint brown lateral arcs (Plate II: F). Scutellum with faint brown basal triangles (Plate II: A–E).
Male genitalia. Pygofer side usually with 2–3 apical brown or black macrosetae (Figs 3–4). Style preapical lobe narrowly triangular, apophysis abruptly tapered at apex (Fig. 5E). Aedeagal shaft strongly laterally compressed, gonopore large with rim forming concave margin in lateral view; with pair of small dorsobasal processes (Figs 5G, 6).
Female. Sternite VII with posterior margin with a shallow notch in mid-line (Plate II: G).
Material examined
China: Jilin Prov.: 1 male, Lingjiang City, 30.VII.1983, coll. Wu Zhengliang & Hua Baozhen; Zhejiang Prov.: 21 males, 10 females, Wuyanling, 400m, 1.VIII.2005, coll. DY; Fujian Prov.: 1 male, Wuyishan, Nantan, 18.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; 2 males, Guangze County, 24.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; 1 male, Wuyishan Sanggang, 19.VII.2006, coll. YM; 41 males, 10 females, Shanghang County, Buyun Town, 21.VII.2009, coll. CY; 3 males, 1 female, Wuyishan, Tongmucun, 7.VIII.2009, coll. CY; Jiangxi Prov.: 34 males, 10 females, Anfu County, 10.VIII.2002; 4 males, 4 females, Ruijin City, Baying Town, 280m, 15.VIII.2004, coll. WC & YM; 7 males, 6 females, Pingxiang City, Lianhua County, 4.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; Henan Prov.: 1 male, Jigongshan, 11.VII.1997, coll. SQ; 1 male, Ruijin City, Baying Town, 280m, 15.VIII.2004, coll. WC & YM; 1 male, Baiyunshan, 17.VIII.2008, coll. LL; Hubei Prov.: 1 male, Wudangshan, 22.VII.2001, coll. Huang Min & Zhang Guiling; Hunan Prov.: 1 male, Chenzhou City, 28.VIII.1985, coll. ZY & Chai Yonghui; 9 males, 3 females, Changde City, Huanan Factory, 22.VII.2002, coll. SQ; 6 males, Zhangjiajie, 25.VII.2002; Guangdong Prov.: 1 male, Dianbai County, 13.IV.1983, coll. ZY; 1 male, Shenzhen, 18.IV.1983, coll. ZY; 1 male, Dinghushan, 7.VII.1985, coll. ZY; Guangxi Prov.: 10 males, 4 females, Huaping, 9.VIII.2000, coll. LZ; 1 male, Huaping, 26.VIII.2000, coll. LZ; 5 males, Fangchenggang City, Naqin Town, 1–3.VIII.2001, coll. He Zhiqiang; 13 males, 6 females, Xinzhai, 18.VIII.2005, coll. YM & KJ;1 male, Yuanbaoshan, 12.VIII.2006, coll. YM & KJ; Hainan Prov.: 10 males, 5 females, Yacheng, 6.V.1983, coll. ZY; 1 male, Wuzhishan, 720m, 31.VII.2009, coll. Gaoxia; 1 male, Bawangling, 9.VIII.2010, coll. WY; 1 male, Tongguling, 26.VIII.2010, coll. WY; Sichuan Prov.: 2 males, 9 females, Kangding, 2500m, 8.XI.1999, coll. Qin Daozheng; 2 males, 8 females, Zhubalong, 2450m, 11.VII.2011, coll. Sun Qiang; Guizhou Prov.: 5 males, Guiyang City, Huaxi Park, 1100m, 25.VII.2001; Yunnan Prov.: 1 male, Daluo Town, 26.X.1987, coll. Feng Jinian & Lili; 10 males, 8 females, Mengla County, Yaoqu Town, V.1991; 1 male, Tengchong County, 22.XI.1999; 2 males, Xishuangbanna, 11.VII.2003; 1 male, Mengla City, 21.VII.2005, coll. LL; 1 male, Simao City, 30.VII.2005, coll. LL; 31 males, 20 females, Tengchong County, Huoshan Park, 1930m, 14.VIII.2005, coll. YM & KJ; 1 male, Dali, 29.VIII.2010, coll. ZM;1 male, Diqing, 14.VIII.2010, coll. ZM; 1 male, Jinghong City, 1.IX.2010, coll. ZM; 1 male, Daluo Town, 679m, 23.V.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Lancang County, 25.V.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Nansan Town, 29.V.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Yingjiang County, Zhanxi Town, 1009m, 2.VI.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Tengchong County, 1632m, 5.VI.2011, coll. LL; 4 males, Lushui County, Chenggan Town, 1013m, 6.VI.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Zhenyuan County, 13.VI.2011, coll. LL; Shaanxi Prov.: 1 male, Liuba County, 20.VII.1995, coll. ZR; 3 males, 3 females, Liuba County, 20.VIII.1995, coll. ZR; 1 male, Zhouzhi County, 24.IX.2008, coll. LL; 1 male, Foping County, 1060m, 1.X.2008, coll. LL; Gansu Prov.: 1 male, Cheng County, 25.VII.2002, coll. WC & Shang Suqin; 1 male, Ruijin City, Baying Town, 280m, 15.VIII.2004, coll. WC & YM. All deposited in NWAFU and mainly collected at light. Abbreviations for collectors: DY: Duan Yani; SQ: Sun Qinxia; LL: Lu Lin; YM: Yang Meixia; CY: Cao Yanghui; ZY: Zhang Yalin; ZM: Zhang Meng; ZR: Zhang Wenzhu & Ren Liyun; WC: Wei Cong; LZ: Liu Zhenjiang; KJ: Kang Juxia; WY: Wang Yang.
Distribution
Eastern Hemisphere.
Remarks
Considerablevariation was found in the apical black macrosetae of the male pygofer and shape of the aedeagus in this species (see Figs 3, 4 & 6).
Taxon Treatment
- Duan, Y; Zhang, Y; 2013: Review of the grassland leafhopper genus Exitianus Ball (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae, Chiasmini) from China ZooKeys, 333: 31-43. doi
Other References
- ↑ Distant W (1908) Rhynchota-Homoptera. In: Bingham CT (Ed) The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma, 4, 501 pp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ross H (1968) The evolution and dispersal of the grassland leafhopper genus Exitianus, with keys to the Old World species (Cicadellidae-Hemiptera). Bulletin of the British Museum Entomology 22 (1): 1-30.
- ↑ Ahmed M, Qadeer A, Malik K (1988) Some new cicadellids from grasslands of Karachi, Pakistan (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 12: 10-17.
- ↑ Khatri I, Webb M (2010) The Deltocephalinae leafhoppers of Pakistan (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 2365: 1-47.
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