Opamata zizhongi Yan & Yang, 2025

Deng, Zi-Yue, Li, Jing-Jing, Yu, Xiao-Fei, Yang, Mao-Fa & Yan, Bin, 2025, Taxonomic revision of the genus Opamata Dworakowska, 1971 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Typhlocybini) with the description of one new species and two new records from China, Zootaxa 5661 (2), pp. 274-284 : 275-278

Opamata zizhongi Yan & Yang , sp. nov.

Figs 1–4 , 17–23 .

Description. Length of male 3.5–3.7 mm. Body yellowish to brown ( Figs 1, 2 ). Anterior margin of crown, thorax, and forewing with black spots or patches ( Fig. 3 ); face brownish, anterior margin with two pairs of spots, posterior margin and two sides of frontoclypeus blackish, anteclypeus with black median area ( Fig. 4 ). Crown produced medially, distinctly shorter than interocular width ( Fig. 3 ); width of crown equal to pronotum in size ( Fig. 3 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer narrowed distally, without appendage and few setae on caudal margin, basal angle and median lobe with approximately 10 macrosetae ( Fig. 17 ). Subgenital plate with slightly curved inside on apex, with one macrosetae basally and row of microsetae on outer margin ( Figs 17, 19 ). Style elongate, abruptly curved laterad near apex, without subapical tooth, with a row of fine setae on outer margin, few apophysis on inner margin ( Fig. 20 ). Connective Y–shaped, lateral ledges developed, central rib not exceeding central lobe ( Fig. 20 ). Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme more developed than preatrium, aedeagal shaft broad basally, abruptly narrowed on anterior margin preapically in lateral view, with distal processes nearly equal in size, arising near apex and curved posteromesad, crossing each other, gonopore terminal ( Figs 21–23 ).

Etymology. This species is named in honor of the leafhopper taxonomist, Zizhong Li.

Materal examined. Holotype: 1♂, CHINA, Yunnan Province, Ailao Shan National Nature Reserve , 8 May 2015, coll. Bin Yan. Paratypes: 2♂♂, same data as the holotype .

Remarks. This species is similar to Opamata novembris , but differs in having the crown with four black patches; the paramere abruptly curved laterad preapically; and the aedeagal shaft shorter and broader in lateral view, with processes strongly curved posteromesad ( Fig. 22 ).

Figures

FIGURES 1–16. Habitus (dorsal view and lateral view), crown, pronotum and scutellum (dorsal view), and face. 1–4, Opamata zizhongi sp. nov.; 5–8, Opamata novembris rec. nov.; 9–l2, Opamata styczniowa rec. nov.; 13–16, Opamata lipcowa. Scale bars = 0.5 mm.

FIGURES 17–23. Hind wing and male genitalia of Opamata zizhongi sp. nov. 17, male pygofer and subgenital plate, lateral view; 18, hind wing; 19, subgenital plate, ventral view; 20, style and connective, ventral view; 21, aedeagus, lateral view (left); 22, aedeagus, ventral view; 23, aedeagus, lateral view (right). Scale bars = 0.1 mm.