Scaphotettix aurantiacus Huang & Tang, 2025

Scaphotettix aurantiacus Huang & Tang sp. nov.

( Figs 3 View FIGURE 3 , 4 View FIGURE 4 )

Length. Male: 2.7mm.

Description. Dorsum orange, with three white longitudinal bands margined with brown extending from apex of crown to near apex of wings ( Fig. 3A–C View FIGURE 3 ). Venter sordid yellow marked with brown ( Figs 3D View FIGURE 3 , 4D View FIGURE 4 ).

Body dorso-ventrally flattened. Head similar in width to pronotum; crown twice as long medially than next to eyes ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ); face slightly longer than wide ( Fig. 3D View FIGURE 3 ). Pronotum one and a half times as long as head, posterior margin straight ( Fig. 3C View FIGURE 3 ).

Male pygofer triangular in lateral view; with a long ventral process extended caudally and medially and a short internal dorsal process on each side ( Fig. 3F, G View FIGURE 3 ). Style with apical process elongate, curved medially and tapered to apex ( Fig. 3H View FIGURE 3 ). Connective trapezoidal ( Fig. 3H View FIGURE 3 ). Aedeagus with shaft strongly curved caudally at base, thereafter straight, tapered to apex in lateral view and expanded distally and ovoid in ventral view, gonopore apical; a short robust process extended from base of shaft ventrally with a subapical spine-like process on each side dorsally; basal apodeme and preatrium well developed, the former laterally compressed ( Fig. 3I, J View FIGURE 3 ).

Material examined. Holotype ♂, China: Anhui province, Chizhou, Guniujiang reserve , sweep net, 8 August 2017, coll. Zhang Yating ( AAU) . Paratypes: 4♂♂, same data as holotype ( AAU) .

Distribution. China (Anhui).

Remarks. Although this new species is similar to its congeners in external appearance and to S. pectinatus and S. striatus in markings it differs from these species in various aspects of the male genitalia (see generic Diagnosis above).

Etymology. The specific epithet is the Latin adjective aurantiacus, -a, -um (= orange), referring to the overall orange dorsum in this species.