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

(Figs 3, 7, 11, 15, 80–88)

Measurement. Male, 3.0 mm (including wings).

Body dirty yellowish (Figs 3, 7). Face with brown transverse streaks on brownish frontoclypeal area, anteclypeus brownish, lorum dark brown and gena black-brown (Fig. 15). Vertex with a brown strip anteriorly connecting 2 lateral round black-brown patches. Pronotum with a central oval patch and 2 pairs of lateral round patches black-brown, between central and lateral patches with 2 arched brown bands connecting with lateral lower patches. Scutum brownish with triangles brown. Scutellum with basal half brownish and distal half dark brown (Fig. 11). Forewing yellowish with 2 brownish patches on clavus, one at base and the other near center of commissural margin; a broad brownish band extended from base of corium to cross vein along MP longitudinal vein; brochosome field brownish (Fig. 80).

Abdominal apodemes nearly reaching end of 5th abdominal sternite. Posterior margin of male pygofer side with a short horn-like appendage bearing a few rigid microsetae, a longitudinally banded sclerite tuberculate terminally and directed cephalad from its lower end (Figs 81, 82). Subgenital plate with some fine setae terminally (Fig. 84). Paramere with caudal part thickened subapically and bent laterad nearly at right angle, subapical protrusion absent (Fig. 85). Connective with stem nearly three times long as lateral arms and central lobe indistinct (Fig. 86).Aedeagal shaft arched and slightly expanded dorsally near middle, with an arched dorsal extension subapically and a narrow ridged ventral appendage approximately on apical 1/4 (Figs 87, 88).

Specimens examined. Holotype: ♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Mt. Hengshan, 30-VIII-1980, coll. Xinwang Tong. Paratype: 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Sangzhi, 6-IX-1981, coll. Xinwang Tong ; 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Prov- ince, Chenzhou, 27-VII-1985, coll. Yalin Zhang and Xinwang Tong ; 1♂, CHINA, Hunan Province, Sangzhi, Mt. Tianping, 1250m, 14-VIII-2001, coll. Qiang Sun.

Etymology. The specific name is derived from Latin word “recurvus, referring to the terminally recurved longitudinal sclerite on the posterior margin of the pygofer side (Figs 81, 82).

Notes. The new species resembles Agnesiella (A.) polita sp. nov., but differs in the male pygofer side with rigid microsetae on a horn-like appendage and the tuberculate end of the ventral appendage (Figs 81, 82), and in the aedeagal shaft with a shorter ridged ventral appendage (Fig. 87).