Agnesiella (Draberiella) apiculata Huang & Zhang 2022, sp. nov.

Agnesiella (D.) apiculata Huang & Zhang sp. nov.

(Figs 36, 40, 44, 48, 150–156)

Measurement. Male, 3.25 mm (including wings).

Body ivory (Figs 36, 40). Most parts of face ivory with 2 brown patches on sides of front, transverse brownish streaks on frontoclypeal area and black-brown inner parts of gena (Fig. 48). Pronotum with 5 patches black-brown and central area near posterior margin suffused with brownish. Scutellum with triangles dark brown, 2 small ochre patches on central area, both sides testaceous and remaining parts suffused with brownish (Fig. 44). Forewing with basal half covered with smoky infuscate patches; brochosome field brownish (Figs 36, 40, 150).

Abdominal apodemes reaching end of 5th abdominal sternite. Male pygofer side with 2 bands of long fine setae, one near posterior margin and the other near ventral margin basally; posteroventral margin slightly protruding with a long digitiform appendage terminally curved downwards (Fig. 151). Subgenital plate slender with bend short (Figs 152, 153). Paramere slender with a small subapical protrusion (Figs 152, 154). Connective with stem nearly as long as lateral arms and central lobe distinct (Fig. 152). Aedeagus with end of dorsoatrium extended; aedeagal shaft straight, lamellar ventral appendage developed with apical half digitiform and directed basad (Figs 155, 156).

Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Mt. Zixi, 2400m, Alnus nepalensis, 10-XI- 1999, coll. I. Dworakowska. Paratype: 2♂ 1♀, same data as holotype; 1♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Tengchong, volcano, 2000m, Alnus nepalensis, 23-XI-1999, coll. I. Dworakowska; 1♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Tengchong, 1650m, 26-IV-1981, coll. Fasheng Li.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “apiculatus which means “thin and sharp, referring to the shape of the caudal apex of the paramere (Fig. 154).

Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (Draberiella) sinuata, but differs in the male connective having the central lobe distinct (Fig. 152), and in the aedeagal shaft without an irregularly undulate ventral margin subapically (Fig. 155).