Tamaricades tamaricius Cai 2009, comb. nov.
Creators
- 1. School of Plant Protection, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui Province 230036, China & Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
- 2. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management of Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province 712100, China
- 3. Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW 7 5 BD, London, UK Corresponding author. E-mail: yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn
Description
Tamaricades tamaricius Cai, comb. nov.
(Figs 6A–E, 7C, 7I, 8B)
Megalopsius tamaricius Cai, 1998: 57, fig. 3 (1–7).
Length. Male: 4.6–6.1mm; Female: 5.0– 6.5mm.
Ochraceous, anterior margin of vertex dark brown, with variable transverse stripe; eyes black with reddish-brown margin and stripes; face with interrupted black fascia. Forewing ochraceous.
Pronotum 1.5x as long as crown.
Male genitalia. Pygophore short and wide, with a few macrosetae near caudal margin, caudal margin strongly bilobed, without appendages. Fused subgenital plates and valve longer than wide, with truncate caudal margin, with a few setae. Apophysis of style foot-like. Aedeagus short and stout, hood-like in caudal view; gonopore apical.
Female genitalia. Hind margin of seventh sternite sinuate with median notch.
Material examined. China, Xinjiang Autonomous Region: 4♂, 2♀♀, Qiangwu Jiantan, 3. vii. 1985 (NWAFU); 1♀, Qiangwu Jiantan, 24. vi. 1985 (NWAFU); Gansu: 3♂, Zhangye, 24. vii. 1985, coll. Lu Jinsheng (NWAFU); Ningxia Autonomous Region: 4♂, Yinchuan, 6. vii. 1982, host: Tamarix ramosissma Ledeb; 1♂, Demos Park, 6. vii. 1981, coll. Jin Gentao (SHEM).
Distribution. Europe, China (Xinjiang, Neimenggu, Gansu, Ningxia).
Remarks. The identity of this species is taken from Cai et al (1998). This species could be G. taeniatus Emeljanov (1979, fig. 36) based on the markings on the vertex but as this species was described only from females the synonymy is uncertain.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NWAFU , SHEM
- Event date
- 1981-07-06 , 1982-07-06 , 1985-06-24 , 1985-07-03 , 1985-07-24
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Tamaricades
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Cai
- Species
- tamaricius
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1981-07-06 , 1982-07-06 , 1985-06-24 , 1985-07-03 , 1985-07-24
References
- Cai, P., Lu, Q. G., DeLoach, C. J. & Johnson, J. (1998) Four new species of Cicadellidae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Scientia Silvae Sinicae, 34 (6), 55 - 62.