Iassus lateralis

Iassus lateralis (Matsumura, 1905) (Figs. 1–7) Macropsis lateralis Matsumura, 1905: 51 Batracomorphus orientalis Kusnezov, 1929: 253 Batracomorphus laniarius Jacobi, 1943: 31 Pachyopsis lateralis Ishihara, 1953: 20 Iassus lateralis Ishihara, 1954: 14 Bythoscopus lateralis Esaki & Ito, 1954: 254 Iassus laniarius Nast, 1972: 228 Description. Head green. Vertex and pronotum variegated with reddish brown spots. Scutellum orange brown, bordered with yellow suture arcuate. Forewings translucent and pale green; veins green; clavus without dark spot. Legs green, without pattern or spot (Fig. 1). Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe process without ventral tooth, unbranched and curved apically; anal tube appendage small, slim and sharp (Fig. 2). Subgenital plate with pointed apex (Fig. 3). Aedeagus long and slim, apex aligned and narrowly bifurcate (Fig. 5). Aedeagus apex with small lateral lobes (Fig. 4). Measurements. Body length males 8.43–9.26 mm, females 7.93–9.19 mm. Specimens examined. [CNU] 1♂, Jichon-ri, Yanggang-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea, 17. VI. 2015, coll. S.A Kwon, light trap; [CNU] 4♂♂, Jichon-ri, Yanggang-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea, 18. VI. 2015, coll. S.M. Oh; [CNU] 1♂, 2♀♀, Jichon-ri, Yanggang-myeon, Yeongdong-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea, 22. VI. 2016, coll. S.A Kwon, light trap; [Hokkaido University] 3 specimens, Japan, coll. Matsumura (unreadable labels for collecting localities). Host plants. In broad-leaved and mixed forests on Ulmus (Anufriev et al. 1988). Distributions. China, Japan, Russia, Mongolia, Korea *.
Published as part of Kwon, Sua, Oh, Sumin & Jung, Sunghoon, 2017, A new species and two new records of the leafhopper genus Iassus Fabricius (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) from Korea, with a key to the Korean Iassus species in Zootaxa 4341 (1), DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/1038696
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