Varma microprojecta Zhou & Chang, 2025
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https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1245.150663 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15930341 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03CD79E9-8C23-5136-A976-9E4213E283BB |
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Varma microprojecta Zhou & Chang |
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sp. nov. |
Varma microprojecta Zhou & Chang sp. nov.
Figs 1 C – D View Figure 1 , 3 A – K View Figure 3 , 4 A – H View Figure 4
Type material.
Holotype: • ♂, China Yunnan Province, Baoshan City, Baihualing National Nature Reserve (25°17'22"N, 98°48'25"E), 6 Aug. 2013, W.-C. Yang GoogleMaps . Paratypes: • ♂, same data as holotype, 5 Aug. 2013, W.-C. Yang GoogleMaps ; • ♂, same data as holotype, 4 Aug. 2013, Z.-H. Fan GoogleMaps ; • 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype, 6 Aug. 2013, W.-C. Yang and H-Y. Sun GoogleMaps .
Description.
Measurements. Body length (from apex of vertex to tip of forewings): male 8.0– 8.8 mm (N = 3), female 9.4–9.5 mm (N = 2).
Coloration. General color pale green to stramineous yellow. Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum grayish green to pale ocherous. Forewings pale green or pale yellow, with nine irregular brownish spots around basal and middle part, and near nodal lines. Hind wings transparent.
Head and thorax. Vertex (Figs 1 C View Figure 1 , 3 A View Figure 3 ) unicarinate, distinctly broader than long in middle line (2.9: 1), projecting in front of the eyes; disc depressed; anterior margin arched and convex; posterior margin triangularly concave. Frons (Fig. 3 C View Figure 3 ) with stout median carina, distinctly longer medially than its maximum width. (1.4: 1), lateral margins subparallel, with an arched frontoclypeal sulcus. Clypeus triangular, broadly rounded, with stout median carina, without lateral carinae (Fig. 3 C View Figure 3 ). Pronotum (Figs 1 C View Figure 1 , 3 A View Figure 3 ) tricarinate, wider than long in middle (4.0: 1) and longer than vertex in middle (1.4: 1), anterior margin distinctly arched convexly, posterior margin obtusely concave. Mesonotum (Figs 1 C View Figure 1 , 3 A View Figure 3 ) tricarinated, wider than long in middle (1.4: 1), and longer than vertex and pronotum together (1.6: 1), median carina straight, reaching to mesoscutellum, lateral carinae curving anteriorly towards median carina. Forewing (Fig. 3 D View Figure 3 ) subhyaline, 2.6 times longer than widest breadth (2.6: 1), anterior and posterior margins parallel, costal cell with 13 oblique transverse veins, ScP + R vein forked near basal 1 / 4, MP vein simple, CuA forked two branches in basal 1 / 3, CuP simple, claval veins Pcu and A 1 uniting in middle of tegmina, nodal line and subapical line distinct. Hind wing hyaline, venation simple as in Fig. 3 E View Figure 3 . The spinulation of the hind leg is 3 - (6-0) / 6 / 2.
Male genitalia. Anal tube symmetrical, long, its base narrow, widest in middle; anal style relatively small, not exceeding the tip of the anal tube (Fig. 3 F – H View Figure 3 ). Pygofer (Fig. 3 F – I View Figure 3 ) asymmetrical, left side (Fig. 3 F, G View Figure 3 ) irregularly broad and triangular, with the posterior margin produced caudally into short finger-like processes near the middle; right side subquadrate, with the posterior margin bearing quadrilateral processes. Gonostyli asymmetrical, falciform in lateral view, bearing a large hook-like process on the left side, and a smaller one on the right side (Fig. 3 G – I View Figure 3 ). In ventral view, gonostyli basal 2 / 3 fused, with micro projection on the apical margin (Fig. 3 I View Figure 3 ). Aedeagus (Fig. 3 G, H, J, K View Figure 3 ) relatively long, tubular, narrow at base and expanded apex, divided into two parts at the apex, one part ribbon-like with jagged edges, the other part with fusion of two semicircular projection and a glove-like projection, both with serrated margins. Phallotreme fissure-like, exposed in middle. Corpus connectivi robust, tubular (Fig. 3 G, H, J, K View Figure 3 ).
Female genitalia. Genitalia bilaterally symmetrical, except for endogonocoxal lobe and sternite VII (Fig. 4 A, C View Figure 4 ). Anal tube symmetrical, long, base narrow, widest in middle, style small, not exceed the apex of anal tube (Fig. 4 A, B View Figure 4 ). Gonapophyses VIII (first valvula) (Fig. 4 B, D View Figure 4 ) saw-like, strongly sclerotized, with 7 distinct teeth on the dorsal margin, 4 distinct teeth on the ventral margin, and numerous indistinct, small teeth along both margins. Gonapophyses IX (second valvula) (Fig. 4 E – G View Figure 4 ) reduced, triangular, bilaterally symmetrical, lateral margins somewhat sclerotized, remainder largely membranous. Gonoplace (third valvula) (Fig. 4 B, H View Figure 4 ) broad, membranous, with 11 teeth on the ventral margin and apical margin. Endogonocoxal lobe (Fig. 4 C View Figure 4 ) at the base of gonapophyses VIII produced mesad irregular stripes, left stripe straight, with apical part somewhat extension, and right stripe cambered, apical part swollen. Posterior margin of sternite VII (Fig. 4 C View Figure 4 ) with an asymmetrical median deep pit, forming two irregular protrusions in ventral view.
Host plant.
Unknown.
Etymology.
The name of the new species is given for the presence of a microprojection on the apical margin of the gonostyli.
Distribution.
China (Yunnan).
Remarks.
This new species resembles V. serrata Men & Qin, 2010 , but is distinguished from the latter by: 1) posterior margin of pygofer with quadrilateral processes on the right side (vs posterior margin of pygofer with trapezoidal lobe on the right side in V. serrata ); 2) aedeagus of male genitalia with a slender ribbon-like projection on the left side, one part with a fusion of two semicircular plate-like projection on the upper part and a glove-like projection on the right side, both with serrated margins (vs absent in V. serrata ); 3) gonostyli with a micro projection on the apical margin (but with a semicircular lobe in V. serrata ); and 4) endogonocoxal lobe of female genitalia with smooth stripe on the right side (vs with a triangular projection in V. serrata ).
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Tropiduchinae |
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