Eumadasumma? pubescens, Yuen & Chen & Yuen & Liu & Leung & Ko & Chan & Somani & Herrmann & Jung & Tokas & Croghan & Traxer & Chiu & Chew & Teoh & Gauhar & Li & Ng, 2020

Eumadasumma? pubescens View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 12, 30–35)

Holotype. Female , South Africa, “Nylstroom [= Modimolle Town in Limpopo Prov.] 24°20′S 29°0′O ″, 24.XII.1988, H. Grobler ( SANC). GoogleMaps

Description. Female ( holotype). General appearance more or less similar to that of E. lucens Chopard, 1934 , but body strongly pubescent, and colouration somewhat different ( Figs 12, 30, 31): epicranium light yellowish grey with dark brown longitudinal band (crossing lower part of eye) on each lateral part, very transverse and narrow triangle located along clypeal suture and having upper corner under rostral apex, narrow stripes along ventromedial edges of antennal cavities (fused with each other almost at rostral apex) and three short longitudinal stripes on hind half of dorsum, with brown upper two thirds of eyes and stripes along ventral edges of genae (these parts of eyes with two dark longitudinal and parallel lines located near each other), and with small dark and darkish marks between eyes, around place of median ocellus and on dorsal membranes of antennal cavities; antenna light brown with almost yellowish dorsal surface of scape (having one darkish longitudinal line) and brown ventral surfaces of scape and pedicel, and with sparse and very poorly distinct small lightish spots on flagellum; mouthparts yellowish with brown and light brown marks on maxillae (including their palpi) and labrum (narrow upper part of clypeus dark brown; Figs 12, 30, 31); pronotum yellowish with wide median area on disc consisting of several greyish brown and light brown spots almost fused with each other, with blackish ventral two thirds of each lateral lobe having also rather short and narrow yellowish stripe along anterior half of ventral edge (but this edge blackish; Figs 30, 31); tegmina light greyish and semitransparent, but dorsal field also with light brown venation, darkish spots on almost all membranes, six white spots along lateral edge and slightly darkened longitudinal areas between these spots, and lateral field with light brown longitudinal venation and whitish crossveins as well as sparse greyish brown longitudinal marks in some membranes ( Figs 30, 31); legs light yellowish grey with numerous dark dots (some of them fused with each other and forming longitudinal stripes on inner surface of fore femur and outer surface of hind femur as well as several spots on outer surface of middle femur; Figs 30–32); venter of body, pleurites, last abdominal tergite, epiproct and paraprocts more or less yellowish; lower parts of posterior abdominal tergites and base of ovipositor with darkened areas; cerci yellowish grey with lighter bases; rest of ovipositor reddish brown with a pair of dark brown lateral longitudinal stripes and black apical (drilling) part ( Figs 34, 35). Head strongly depressed dorsoventrally ( Figs 12, 31), with dorsum barely concave between eyes, with rostrum angular in profile and narrower and longer than in Depressotrella Gorochov, 2005 (scape ~1.5 times as wide as rostrum between antennal cavities), with ocelli absent (but place of median ocellus visible as small round impression on dorsal surface of rostrum), and with short maxillary palpi having apical segment almost equal to scape in length; pronotum low, barely narrowing to head and with disc slightly transverse ( Figs 30, 31); tegmina distinctly protruding beyond abdominal apex, with dorsal field having 13 almost straight but barely oblique longitudinal veins and numerous crossveins between them, with narrow areas Sc-R and R-M, with 13–14 straight but obliquely longitudinal Sc branches, and with moderately numerous crossveins in lateral field; hind wings distinctly longer than tegmina ( Figs 30, 31); legs moderately robust, with fore tibia having proximal half insignificantly widened, with outer tympanum large and oval, and with inner tympanum moderately large and slit-like but short and rather widely open ( Fig. 32); genital plate almost as long as wide, gradually narrowing to clearly bilobate apex (apical lobules rounded and with distinct but not deep and rounded notch between them; Fig. 33); ovipositor much shorter than in E. lucens and with apical part as in Figs 34, 35.

Male unknown.

Length in mm. Body 22; body with wings 31; pronotum 4.2; tegmina 22.5; hind femora 14; ovipositor 13.5.

Comparison. From a single previously known species of Eumadasumma Chopard, 1934 , the new species is clearly distinguished by a pubescent (not glabrous) body, the absence of a characteristic longitudinally wrinkled relief on the pronotal lateral lobes, and a much shorter ovipositor. From the representatives of Afrotruljalia Gorochov, 2005 and Depressotrella also having pubescent or dorsoventrally depressed body, the new species differs in the both head and pronotum clearly lower (from Afrotruljalia ), or in the head rostrum longer and narrower (from Depressotrella ).

Etymology. The new species name is the Latin word “pubescens ” (pubescent, with hairs) in connection with a strongly pubescent body.