Pomponia brevisa, Wang & Hayashi & Wei, 2025

Wang, Jiali, Hayashi, Masami & Wei, Cong, 2025, Phylogeny, biogeography, and diversiFIcation of the cicada Pomponia linearis and its allies (Hemiptera: Cicadidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 203 (4) : -

Pomponia brevisa sp. n.

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Tope material: Holotype: ♂ ( NWAFU), China: Ruili Co., Yunnan Province, 24 August 2014 . Paratype: 1♂ ( NWAFU), China: Mt Baihualing, Baoshan , Yunnan Province, 30 May 2018 .

Measurements of topes: (in millimetres; 2♂♂): body length, ♂ 42.8–43.2; forewing length, ♂ 46.7–47.1; forewing width, ♂ 16.5–17.0; width of head including eyes, ♂ 9.6–9.9; pronotum width (including pronotal collar), ♂ 11.1–11.4; and mesonotum width, ♂ 10.4–10.9.

Etomologo: Te species name is a Latin adjective meaning ‘short’, signifying the spines of lateral branches of the uncus being comparatively short.

Description of male: Head ( Fig. 14A, B, D). Mostly ochraceous. Head including eyes slightly narrower than the base of the mesonotum. Eyes fuscous and ocelli yellow. Ventral part of head brown, with a broad pale yellowish transverse band across head and postclypeus. Postclypeus much swollen. Anteclypeus ochraceous, with dense golden hair. Rostrum ochraceous, with apical part blackish, not extending to the posterior margin of abdominal sternite II.

Torax ( Fig. 14A, E). Pronotum longer than head, almost brown; inner area of pronotum with fuscous longitudinal fascia medially and fuzzy patches on each side. Pronotal collar ochraceous, with small spot medially and two pairs of blackish spots on posterolateral area; lateral part of pronotal collar obtusely dentate. Mesonotum fuscous, with the following ochraceous markings: pair of delicate fasciae along submedian sigilla reaching to half of mesonotum; and narrow fasciae along lateral margins of mesonotum. Cruciform elevation ochraceous, posterior angles of cruciform elevation with black markings.

Legs ( Fig. 14C). Yellowish ochraceous, with some brown patches. Fore femora swollen and equipped with three blackish brown spines beneath: primary spine oblique to femur; secondary spine broader and erect; and subapical spine short.

Wings ( Fig. 14A, B). Hyaline, heavily tinged with pale brown. Forewing with distinct spots on radial, radiomedial, and medial crossveins, obscure fuscous spot present on mediocubital crossvein, and spot on cubitus anterior vein; marginal series of faint and minute spots present on apex of longitudinal veins of apical cells.

Abdomen ( Fig. 14A, B, E, F). Cylindrical, much longer than distance from head to cruciform elevation. Abdominal tergites brown, with posterior margins of each tergite narrowly black. Abdominal sternites translucent and ochraceous. Timbal covers semicircular and blackish brown; timbal concealed by timbal cover in dorsal view. Opercula ochraceous, separated, with posterior margins semicircular and extending to posterior margin of sternite II.

Genitalia ( Fig. 14G–I). Pygofer elliptical in ventral view, ochraceous, with apex blackish brown. Distal shoulder broadly triangular, distally extended into pointed lobe. Upper lobe of pygofer relatively large and erect, substantially confluent with pygofer margin in ventral view ( Fig. 14G). Basal lobes large and paramedian, nearly straight, and parallel to each other. Uncus trapezoid, with a narrow and short median incision. Lateral branches of uncus protruding from below uncus and each with paired short spines, subequal in length in ventral view.

Distribution: China (Yunnan).

Diagnostic features: Pomponia brevisa can be distinguished from other species of the P. linearis species complex by the distinctly fuscous spots on radial, radiomedial, and medial crossveins of forewing, obscure fuscous spot on the mediocubital crossvein of forewing, spot on cubitus anterior vein of forewing, and the distinctly short spines of lateral branches of uncus. Tis new species is most similar to P. ponderosa within the P. linearis species complex, but can be distinguished from P. ponderosa by the upper lobe of the pygofer being erect, large, and long, and by the basal lobes of the pygofer being large and paramedian, nearly straight, and parallel to each other.