Kapsa yanheensis
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Kapsa
Name
Kapsa yanheensis Song & Li, 2012 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Dorsum beige. Vertex with large dark median apical spot; anterior margin of vertex and pronotum milky yellow.
Abdominal apodemes small, not exceeding 3rd sternite (Fig. 26).
Male pygofer lobe with dorsal appendage bifurcate near base, curved ventrally (Fig. 27). Anal tube processes indistinct. Subgenital plate with three long macrosetae in oblique row on lateral surface (Fig. 28). Style apex elongate, little sinuate; preapical lobe prominent (Fig. 29). Connective Y-shaped with central lobe broad and arms short (Fig. 32). Aedeagal shaft with pair of long basal processes, extending to near apex of shaft; gonopore short (Figs 30, 31); dorsal apodeme short and preatrium long (Fig. 30).
Measurement
Body length males 2.5~2.7 mm, females 2.6~2.8 mm.
Type material
Holotype, male, China: Guizhou Province, Yanhe County, Mayanghe National Nature Reserve, 30 Sep. 2007, coll. Yue-hua Song. Paratypes: four males, ten females, same date as holotype.
Remarks
The new species is similar to Kapsa mingorensis (Ahmed, 1970) (see also Dworakowska et al. 1978[1]), but the aedeagus has a pair of basal processes, without apical vestiture (Figs 30, 31) and the preatrium is not expanded in lateral view (Fig. 30).
Etymology
The new species is named for its type locality: Yanhe.
Original Description
- Song, Y; Li, Z; 2012: Four new species of the leafhopper genus Kapsa Dworakowska from China (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), with a key to Chinese species ZooKeys, 212: 25-33. doi
Other References
- ↑ Dworakowska I, Nagaich B, Singh S (1978) Kapsa simlensis sp.n. from India and some other Typhlocybinae (Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Bulletin de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Série des Sciences Biologiques 26 (4): 243-249.
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