Conjunctus decussatus Yao, Yu & Yang, 2025

Yao, Qingping, Ding, Yan, Yang, Maofa & Yu, Xiaofei, 2025, A new genus and two new species in the tribe Empoascini (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae) from China, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 72 (2), pp. 251-257 : 251-257

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/dez.72.156715

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17405976

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scientific name

Conjunctus decussatus Yao, Yu & Yang
status

sp. nov.

Conjunctus decussatus Yao, Yu & Yang sp. nov.

Figs 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2

Type material.

Holotype: ♂, China: Chongqing, Chengkou , 5 July 2008, leg. Yang Zaihua. Paratype: 1 ♂, same data as holotype .

Description of male. Body length ( n = 2): 4.6–4.9 mm.

Head. Crown orange-red, with a large, black pentagonal spot at posterior margin and vertex (Fig. 1 A, D View Figure 1 ). Eyes black, ocelli brown, on vertex (Fig. 1 B, C View Figure 1 ). Face light yellowish-brown (Fig. 1 B, C View Figure 1 ).

Thorax. Pronotum with trapezoidal transverse depression; median and posterior portions reddish-brown, elevated (Fig. 1 A, D View Figure 1 ). Scutellum light brown, intershield grooves brown, not reaching lateral margins (Fig. 1 A, D View Figure 1 ). Forewings light brown; hindwings hyaline, veins brown (Fig. 1 E, F View Figure 1 ). Abdomen dark brown. Legs light yellow; claws and tibiae of fore-legs brown (Fig. 1 B View Figure 1 ).

Abdomen. Tergites dark brown. Ventral abdominal apodemes short, fine, extending to third abdominal segment (Fig. 2 A View Figure 2 ). Pygofer broad basally in dorsal view, apex with fine setae; dorsal bridge exceeding one third of pygofer length. Posterior margin of lateral valve of pygofer involute (Fig. 2 B, C View Figure 2 ). Ventral appendage crossed, narrowed distally (Fig. 2 H View Figure 2 ). Subgenital plates exceeding pygofer, fused basally, with a single row of macrosetae sub-basally to tip; numerous macrosetae with marginal setae laterally (Fig. 2 I View Figure 2 ). Paramere broad, with subterminally fine setae, apex tipped with rolled folds. (Fig. 2 D, F View Figure 2 ). Aedeagal shaft enlarged distally in lateral view, with tuberculate dorsal protuberance and tubular gonoduct; the gonopore positioned above aedeagal shaft and dorsal protuberance (Fig. 2 D, E, G View Figure 2 ). Anal styli elongated, straight, tapering to sharp apex, with short basal prickle (Fig. 2 J View Figure 2 ). Connective triangular, broad basally, narrow distally, fused to base of aedeagal shaft below curvature (Fig. 2 D, E View Figure 2 ).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution.

China, Chongqing.

Etymology.

The name of the new species is the Latin adjective decussatus, - a, - um, meaning “ decussated, crossed ”, referring to the crossed ventral pygofer appendages of the male.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Tribe

Empoascini

Genus

Conjunctus