Scaphomonus digitatus, Duan & Xing, 2024

Scaphomonus digitatus sp. nov.

Figs. 1–11

Description. Body ochraceous. Head with piceous submarginal band on anterior margin, one transverse arcuate band between eyes anteriorly, narrowly margined with piceous (Figs. 1, 4). Vertex slightly more than 2.1x wider than its median length, medially 1.6x shorter than median length of pronotum. Face with arcuate, piceous submarginal band (Fig. 3). Pronotum with anterior yellowish brown and posterior submarginal chocolate brown transverse bands; maximum width 2.5x median length (Figs. 1, 4). Forewing ochraceous, with hyaline spots (Figs. 1, 2).

Male genitalia. Male pygofer side broadly rounded in lateral aspect, with many long posteroventral setae (Fig. 5). Valve triangular, nearly 2.2x as broad as median length (Fig. 6). Subgenital plate with outer margin longer than width at base, outer margin about 2x longer than width of base, narrowed posteriorly, with a row of stout setae along lateral margin (Fig. 7). Aedeagal shaft slender, longer than 1.5 times length of connective, apex with a pair of finger-shaped processes, gonopore subapical on dorsal surface (Figs. 8–10). Connective Y-shaped, articulated with aedeagus, with anterior arms nearly 1/2 length of stem (Figs. 8, 9). Style relatively narrow, apical process acute and with small teeth, turned laterally; preapical lobe strongly produced, acute (Fig. 11).

Measurement. Length (including tegmen): ♂, 4.3mm.

Type material. Holotype ♂, China: Yunnan Prov., Gaoligongshan, Baihualing , 5 August 2013, coll. Weicheng Yang ( GUGC).

Etymology. The species name is derived from the Latin word “ digitatus ”, referring to the finger shaped apical processes of aedeagus in ventral or dorsal view.