Calodia sinuata, Nielson, 2015

Nielson, M. W., 2015, A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), Insecta Mundi 2015 (410), pp. 1-202 : 8

Calodia sinuata , sp. nov.

( Plate 1A , Fig. 13-19 )

Description. Length. Male 7.75 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, slender species. General color dark brown to blackish, with numerous, small, ivory to yellow spots on forewings; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly obtuse; crown wide, about as wide as eyes, produced anteriorly beyond margin of eyes, lateral margins convergent basally; pronotum large, slightly longer medially than crown; surface bullated; mesonotum very large, nearly twice as long medially than pronotum; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus long, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow lateral margins flared apically.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view somewhat triangulate, small lobe on apex, glabrous ( Fig. 13 ); aedeagus asymmetrical, sinuate, narrowly tubular in dorsal view, inflated in basal 1/3, recurved apically in lateral view, with 2 long, sinuate, setose apical spines ( Fig. 14, 15 ); style long, robust, apophysis strongly striate longitudinally, apex abruptly tapered ( Fig. 16, 17 ); dorsal connective long, narrow ( Fig. 14, 15 ); connective large, anterior membranous arms broad, without medial ridge, stem small, lobate ( Fig. 18 ); subgenital plate long, broad, glabrous ( Fig. 19 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. LAOS: Phongsaly prov., Ban Sano Mai , 19-26, V, 2004, 1150 m., 21 o 21' N, 102 o 03' E, P. Pacholatko, leg. ( MMBC).

Etymology. The name of the species is descriptive for the sinuate shaft and apical processes of the aedeagus in dorsal and lateral views.

Remarks. This species is similar to a group of species which possess setose, apical or subapical, spines on aedeagal shaft and can be distinguished by the triangulate apex of the aedeagus in dorsal view which is recurved apically in lateral view.

Figures

PLATE 1. A-I. Dorsal habitus. (A) Calodia sinuata, sp. nov.; (B) Calodia sichuanensis, sp. nov.; (C) Calodia vincula, sp. nov.; (D) Calodia bicompressa, sp. nov.; (E) Calodia propennata, sp. nov.; (F) Calodia birama, sp. nov.; (G) Creberulidia multipenicula, sp. nov.; (H) Creberulidia inflata, sp. nov.; (I) Creberulidia ordospinosa, sp. nov.

Figures 13-19. Genitalia, Calodia sinuata, sp. nov. 13) Male pygofer, lateral view. 14) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view. 15) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal view. 16) Style, lateral view. 17) Style, dorsal view. 18) Connective, caudal view. 19) Subgenital plate, ventral view.