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Corresponding author: Mao-fa Yang (yangmaofa@sohu.com)
Academic editor: M. Wilson
2014256201442061688E62FFCC-FFFA-FFFC-546A-0325FFC9FF9C5783724AC17995-081D-4EAB-9909-AD7E1EC83CED24122013962014Ze-hong Meng, Mao-fa Yang, Mick WebbThis is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Newly collected male and female specimens of the leafhopper Kolla albescens Jacobi, 1943 from the type-locality (Northeast China), are identified as Pagaronia albescens (Jacobi), comb. n. (Evacanthinae: Pagaroniini). A redescription of the species is provided together with habitus photographs of the male and female and illustrations of the male and female genitalia. P. continentalis Anufriev, 1970 is placed as a junior synonym of P. albescenssyn. n.
Meng Z-H, Yang M-F, Webb M (2014) Identity of the leafhopper Kolla albescens, with new synonymy (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae). ZooKeys 420: 61–68. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.420.6899
Introduction
The leafhopper Kolla albescens was described by Jacobi (1943) based on a female specimen from Northeast China. In Young’s (1986)Cicadellinae revision he did not examine the type specimen of Kolla albescens so placed it in Kolla following Metcalf (1965). Although Wilson et al. (2009a, b) provided body images of the type specimen, the lack of a male specimen has prevented the species being formally redescribed or revised. Fortunately, we have been able to collect several specimens from the type locality in Northeast China of Kolla albescens. Based on colour, external features and the male genitalia, this species should be included in the leafhopper genus Pagaronia Ball (Evacanthinae: Pagaroniini). Subsequent comparison with figures of Pagaronia in Kwon (1981) indicated that it was a senior synonym of Pagaronia continentalisAnufriev (1970), the only species of Pagaronia from China (Kwon and Huh 2001). Habitus photographs of the male and female and illustrations of the male and female genitalia of Pagaronia albescens are provided.
Material and methods
The male and female genital structures were prepared according to the techniques described by Oman (1949) and Mejdalani (1998), respectively. The dissected parts are stored in small vials with glycerin and attached below the specimens. The morphological terminology adopted herein follows mainly Young (1986), except for the facial areas of the head (Hamilton 1981; Mejdalani 1998), the leg chaetotaxy (Rakitov 1998) and that of the female genitalia (Nielson 1965; Davis 1975; Mejdalani 1998). All specimens studied are housed in the Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China (GUGC).
TaxonomyAnimaliaHemipteraCicadellidae082280B5-8637-B3AB-6695-6159FEF2AEB1Pagaroniaalbescens(Jacobi, 1943)comb. n.Figs 1–21Kolla albescens Jacobi, 1943: 28; Wilson et al. (2009a, b)Pagaronia continentalis Anufriev, 1970, 18: 555; Kwon 1983: 18 (in key). syn. n.Type-locality.
“Gaolinzsy” (NE China).
Description.
Length of males 8.5–9.0 mm, females 8.7–9.8 mm.
Coloration. Male: Head, thorax and pygofer yellowish-white; apical 1/3 of crown with three transverse black spots, one at median portion and one at each lateral margin; forewing with brown costal margin; abdomen orange-yellow in ventral view, pygofer yellow-white. Female: Head, thorax and abdominal sternites yellowish-brown; forewing pale lacteous; other coloration similar to male.
Head anterior margin almost angulate; median length of crown 5/7 of interocular width; coronal suture distinct at posterior half of crown; crown concave between ocellus and coronal suture, with fovea between ocellus and eye; ocelli located in front of imaginary line between anterior eye angles, each closer to eye than to median line of crown; lateral frontal sutures extending onto crown, attaining ocelli; frons flattened medially, muscle impressions distinct in female and obscure in male; epistomal suture complete. Pronotum broader than head; anterior margin broadly rounded; posterior margin concave medially; disk transversely rugulose medially; dorsopleural carinae distinct; scutellum flattened behind transverse depression; transverse depression straight, located in middle of disk, attaining lateral margins of scutellum; forewing (Fig. 12) with base of second apical cell more proximal than base of third; medial inner subapical cell open. Fore legs with femur (Fig. 13), in anterior view, with intercalary row comprising about 10 widely spaced stout setae on distal half, first anteromedial seta (AM1) located near base of ventroapical femoral lobe, anteroventral row with about four stout setae. Hindleg with apical femoral setal formula 2:1:1. Male abdominal apodemes small, reaching near mid length of third segment.
Pagaronia albescens (Jacobi, 1943), comb. n. 1–3 body of male (9.0 mm): 1 dorsal view 2 lateral view 3 ventral view 4–6 body of female (9.8 mm) 4 dorsal view 5 lateral view 6 ventral view.
Male genitalia with pygofer (Fig. 7), in lateral view, broad and strongly produced posteriorly, dorsal margin with anterior half convex and posterior half slightly concave; posterior margin broadly rounded; ventral margin with fold, fold concave near apex; disk apicoventral portion with sparse short macrosetae; microsetae also present. Subgenital plate (Fig. 8) small, distinctly shorter than pygofer; posterior area abruptly narrowed, apex nearly acute and slightly curved outwards; apical half with sparse microsetae and irregularly triseriate macrosetae medially. Aedeagus (Figs 9, 10) with long basal apodeme, as long as half of shaft; aedeagal shaft slender, curved posterodorsally, with apical aedeagal processes branched, longer branch extending beyond mid-length of shaft with short sub-branch medially. Connective shield-shaped (Fig. 11), with basal half broader. Style (Fig. 11) strong and extending posteriorly beyond connective apex, preapical portion with several microsetae; apical portion curved, S-shaped, and apex with two denticles.
Female genitalia. Sternite VII (Fig. 14), in ventral view, slightly longer than broad; posterior margin convex and with shallow concavity medially; surface with few small setae mostly on anterior half. Pygofer (Fig. 15), in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; posterior margin with subacute apex, dorsoposterior margin obliquely truncate; surface with macrosetae mostly on ventral margin, arranged almost in a row. Valvifers I (Fig. 16), in lateral view, longer than tall; posteroventral margin angulate. Valvifers II (Fig. 17), in lateral view, nearly fusiform, with small group of clustered setae near articulation point, articulation point located on 2/3 of dorsal margin. Valvulae relatively narrow in lateral view. Valvulae I (Fig. 16) with base subtriangular in ventral view; with convex lateral outer margin; in lateral view (Figs 16, 18, 19) with dorsal and ventral margins nearly parallel over basal two thirds behind basal curvature, thereafter slightly convex and narrowed to acute apex; dorsal sculptured area restricted to posterior 2/3 of shaft, formed mostly by subrectangular sculpture arranged in oblique lines, except basally were it is arranged horizontally; ventral sculptured area formed by dense imbricate sculpture restricted to apical portion of shaft; length of ventral interlocking device corresponding to approximately 2/3 of blade length beyond basal curvature. Valvulae II (Figs 20, 21), in lateral view, with anterior fused basal section nearly 2/3 length of blade; only slightly expanded beyond basal curvature and dorsal hyaline region; dorsal and ventral margins approximately parallel; apex narrowly rounded; preapical prominence absent; shaft bearing approximately 25 teeth (Fig. 21: to) over posterior 1/3 of blade; each tooth subtriangular; apicoventral margin without distinct teeth; teeth and dorsal margin of shaft without secondary denticles; ducts sparse, extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, expanded at apical half; apex obtuse; surface with macrosetae mostly distributed on apical portion and extending anteriorly along ventral margin of apical half.
Pagaronia albescens (Jacobi, 1943), comb. n., female genitalia: 14 sternite VII, ventral view 15 pygofer, lateral view 16 valvifer I and valvula I, lateral view 17 valvifer II, lateral view 18 dorsal sculptured area of valvula I, lateral view 19 apical portion of valvula I, lateral view 20 valvulae II, lateral view 21 apex and apical portion of valvulae II, lateral view. go = gonangulum, to = tooth, vid = ventral interlocking device. Scale bars in millimeters.
3 males and 5 females, China, Liaoning Province, Henren County, Benxi Laotuding Preserve, 19 to 21 July 2011, coll. Fan Zhi-hua and Yu Xiao-fei; 1 female, China, Jilin Province, Mt. Changbai, 24 July 2011, coll. Yu Xiao-fei.
Remarks.
This species was described from a single female specimen (holotype) from “Gaolinzsy” (NE China). The type specimen, deposited in Deutsches Entomologisches Institut im ZALF, Müncheburg, Germany, has not been examined but our material has been compared with an image of the type (see introduction). The identity and reference for the Pagaronia species recorded from China in Hayashi et al. (2010) and Kamitani et al. (2012) was established as Pagaronia continentalis recorded by Kwon and Huh (2001) (M. Hayashi, pers. com.).
Acknowledgements
Sincere thanks to Prof. Masami Hayashi (Saitama University, Japan) for giving us important information on the identity and reference for the Pagaronia species recorded in Hayashi et al. (2010) and Kamitani et al. (2012). We also thank Gabriel Mejdalani (Departamento de Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and C. A. Viraktamath (Department of Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, India) for reading the manuscript and making some corrections. We are very grateful to Yu Xiao-fei (GUGC) and Jiao Meng (GUGC) for making the figures of the male genitalia. Thanks to Fan Zhi-hua (GUGC) and Yu Xiao-fei for collecting specimens. This project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (30770253; 31301912), the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (J-[2013]-2157), the National Specialized Research Fund for Basic Science of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006FY120100), Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (NCET-07-0221), and the Provincial Foundation for Excellent Youth in Science and Technology Field of Guizhou (20050517).
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