Exitianus nanus
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Exitianus
Name
Exitianus nanus (Distant) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Athysanus nanus Distant, 1908: 345.
- Athysanus insularis; Distant 1909[1]: 47, pl. 4, figs 10, 10a. Synonymized by Ross 1968[2]: 7.
- Athysanus fasciolatus; Melichar 1911[3]: 107. Synonymized by Linnavuori 1975[4]: 626.
- Athysanus simillimus; Matsumura 1914[5]: 185. Synonymized by Ross 1968[2]: 7.
- Athysanus vulnerans; Bergevin 1925[6]: 42, figs 5–9. Synonymized by Ross 1968[2]: 7.
- Limotettix albipennis; Haupt 1927[7]: 25, pl. II, figs 20a–c.Synonymized byDlabola 1963[8]: 325.
- Limotettix unifasciata; Haupt 1930[9]: 159, fig. 9. Synonymized byDlabola 1963[8]: 325.
- Athysanus digressus; Van Duzee 1933[10]: 32. Synonymized by Linnavuori and DeLong 1978[11]: 237.
- Exitianus nanus; Ross 1968[2]: 7, figs 1–3,15–18, 76.
- Exitianus karachiensis; Ahmed 1986[12]: 59, fig. 5. Synonymized by Khatri and Webb 2010[13]: 10.
- Exitianus peshawarensis; Ahmed and Rao 1986[14]: 76–77, fig. 1. Synonymized by Khatri and Webb 2010[13]: 10.
- Exitianus minor; Ahmed et al. 1988[15]: 12, fig. 2. Synonymized by Khatri and Webb 2010[13]: 10.
- Exitianus fulvinervis; Li and He 1993[16]: 27; Li et al. 2011[17]: 68, fig. 55. syn. n.
Description
Length. Male: 3.0–4.1mm; female: 3.9–5.2mm.
Yellow-brown with variable brown markings on vertex comprising spots on anterior margin and a more posterior arcuate band interrupted medially (Plate I: A–B); frontoclypeus with faint brown lateral arcs (Plate I: C). Pronotum usually with some dark infuscation (Plate I: A–B). Scutellum with dark brown basal triangles (Plate I: A–B).
Crown width about 3× length (Plate I: A–B).
Male genitalia. Pygofer side usually with 2–6 apical brown or black macrosetae (Figs 1A–D). Style preapical lobe broadly triangular, apophysis evenly tapered to apex (Fig. 2A). Aedeagal shaft slightly laterally compressed with small subapical dorsal gonoduct (Fig. 2C); without processes (Figs 2B–C).
Female. Sternite VII with posterior margin tri-lobed (Plate I: D).
Material examined
China: Zhejiang Prov.: 1 female, Wuyanling, 2.VIII.2005, coll. DY; Fujian Prov.: 8 males, 15 females, Wuyishan, Nantan, 12.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; 41 males, 48 females, Guangze County, 23.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; Jiangxi Prov.: 16 males, 5 females, Anfu County, 10.VIII.2002, coll. SQ; Henan Prov.: 1 male, Baiyunshan, 17.VIII.2008, coll. LL; Hunan Prov.: 1 female, Hengshan, 30.VIII.1980, coll. TX; Guangdong Prov.: 1 male, 1 female, Shenzhen City, VIII.1986, coll. ZY; Guangxi Prov.: 1 female, Fangcheng City, 3.VI.2000, coll. Li Wenzhu (IZCAS); Hainan Prov.: 10 males, 2 females, Liangyuan, 10/29.V.1983, coll. ZY; 1 male, Wuzhishan, 640m, 16.V.2007, coll. DY; 2 males, 5 females, Jianfengling, 22.VII.2010, coll. WY; 4 males, Wuzhishan City, Maoyang Town, 3.VIII.2010, coll. Sun Jing; 3 females, Yinggeling, 4.VIII.2010, coll. WY; 30 males, 40 females, Bawangling, 9.VIII.2010, coll. WY; 7 males, 2 females, Limu, 933m, 22.VIII.2010, coll. WY; 61 males, 30 females, Tongguling, 26.VIII.2010, coll. WY; Yunnan Prov.: 1 male, Mengla County, Yaoqu Town, 660m, 3.V.1991, coll. Liu Guanchun & Cai Wanzhi; 1 male, Mengla County, Yaoqu Town, 18.VI.1991, coll. WT; 2 females, Mengla County, Menglun, 19.V.1991, coll. WT; 2 males, Jinghong City, Jinghong County, 30.VIII.2010, coll. Han Juan; 1 male, Jinghong City, Jinghong County, 23.X.2010, coll. Chai Yonghui & Feng Jinian; 1 male, Menglian County, 971m, 24.V.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Lancang County, 25.V.2011, coll. LL; 2 males, Yexianggu, 1226m, 9.VI.2011, coll. LL; 1 male, Zhenyuan County, 13.VI.2011, coll. LL. All deposited in NWAFU, except where indicated and mainly collected at light. Abbreviations for collectors: DY: Duan Yani; SQ: Sun Qinxia; LL: Lu Lin; TX: Tong Xinwang; ZY: Zhang Yalin; WY: Wang Yang; WT: Wang Yinglun & Tian Rungang.
Distribution
Eastern Hemisphere.
Remarks
Exitianus fulvinervis was described by Li & He (1993) based on specimens collected from Tibet. As these fall within the variation found in Exitianus nanus, the two species are here synonymised.
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 (1909) “Sealark” Rhynchota. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series Zoology 13 (1): 29-47.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 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.
- ↑ Melichar L (1911) Collections recuillies par M.M. de Rothschild dans l’Afrique Orientale. Homoptères. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, 106–117.
- ↑ Linnavuori R (1975) Homoptera: Cicadellidae, Supplement.Insects of Micronesia 6(9): 611–632.
- ↑ Matsumura S (1914) Die Jassinen und einige neue Acocephalinen Japans. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University Sapporo 5: 165-240.
- ↑ Bergevin E (1925) Description d’une nouvelle espèce d’Athysanus suceur de sang humain de l’extrême Sud Algérien (Hémiptère-Homoptère Jassidae). Archives de l’Institut Pasteur d’Algérie 3: 42-44.
- ↑ Haupt H (1927) Homoptera Palestinae I. Bulletin. The Zionist Organisation. Institute of Agriculture and Natural History. Agricultural Experiment Station Tel-Aviv Palestine 8: 5-43.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Dlabola J (1963) Typen und wenig bekannte Arten aus der Sammlung H. Haupt mit Beschreibungen einiger Zikadenarten aus Siberien (Homoptera). Acta Entomologica Musei nationalis Pragae 35: 313-331.
- ↑ Haupt H (1930) Drei neue Homoptera-Cicadina aus Ligurien (Italien). Mitteilungen der Deutschen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 1: 153-159.
- ↑ Van Duzee E (1933) The Templeton Crocker Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences, 1932, No. 4. Characters of twenty-four new species of Hemiptera from the Galapagos Islands and the coast and islands of Central America and Mexico. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences San FranciscoSer. 4 (21): 25-40.
- ↑ Linnavuori R, DeLong D (1978) Some new or little known Neotropical Deltocephalinae (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Brenesia 14–15: 227–247.
- ↑ Ahmed M (1986) Some investigations of leafhoppers of grasslands and allied crops in Pakistan. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology 6: 51-62.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Khatri I, Webb M (2010) The Deltocephalinae leafhoppers of Pakistan (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa 2365: 1-47.
- ↑ Ahmed M, Rao S (1986) Some commonly found leaf and planthoppers on vegetable plants in the suburbs of Peshawar N.W.F.P., Pakistan. Proceedings of Pakistan Congress of Zoology 6: 73-80.
- ↑ Ahmed M, Qadeer A, Malik K (1988) Some new cicadellids from grasslands of Karachi, Pakistan (Homoptera, Cicadellidae). Great Basin Naturalist Memoirs 12: 10-17.
- ↑ Li Z, He T (1993) A new species of Exitianus from Xizang (Homoptera, Euscelinae). Journal of Guizhou Agriculture College supp. 12: 27-28.
- ↑ Li Z, Dai R, Xing J (2011) Deltocephalinae from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). Popular Science Press, Beijing, China, 359 pp.
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