Agnesiella (A.) polita Huang & Zhang sp. nov.

(Figs 4, 8, 12, 16, 89–96)

Measurement. Male, 3.25 mm (including wings).

Vertex and upper side of thorax yellow (Figs 4, 8). Face with dark brown transverse streaks on brown frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus and lorum brown, gena black-brown (Fig. 16). Vertex with a brown stripe anteriorly connecting 2 lateral round black-brown patches. Pronotum with a central oval patch blackish and 2 pairs of lateral patches blackish, 2 brown bands between central and lateral patches. Scutum with 2 small light ochre patches on central area, triangles blackish brown. Scutellum with central area brownish, both sides of basal half yellow ochre and distal half brown (Fig. 12). Forewing yellowish with 2 patches on clavus that one at base black-brown and the other brown band extended from central part to corium; patch at distal end of CuA vein brownish; brochosome field yellowish (Figs 4, 89).

Abdomen blackish, abdominal apodemes reaching center of 6th abdominal sternite (Fig. 90). Male pygofer side subquadrate with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards on posterior margin (Figs 91, 92). Subgenital plate without subapical protrusion (Fig. 93). Paramere with apical 1/4 curved laterad nearly at right angle, subapical protrusion absent (Fig. 95). Connective with stem nearly 2 times as long as lateral arms, central lobe absent (Fig. 94). Aedeagal shaft arched and slightly expanded dorsally near base, with an arcuate dorsal extension subapically and a narrow ridged ventral appendage approximately on apical 1/2 (Fig. 96).

Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hubei Province, Xingshan, Longmen river, 1300m, 13-IX-1994, coll. Fasheng Li. Paratype: 2♂, CHINA, Guangxi Province, Guilin Huaping National Nature Reserve, 500m, 10- VII-2019, coll. Junjie Wang.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “politus which means “smooth, referring to the paramere without a subapical protrusion (Fig. 95).

Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (A.) recurva sp. nov., but differs in the male pygofer side with a long digitiform appendage directed backwards and without rigid microsetae (Figs 91, 92), and in the aedeagal shaft with a longer ridged ventral appendage (Fig. 96).