Busoniomimus manjunathi Viraktamath & Viraktamath

VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2024, Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species, Zootaxa 5462 (1), pp. 1-125 : 33

Busoniomimus manjunathi Viraktamath & Viraktamath

Figs 15A–H, 59D, 60N, 64M–P.

Busoniomimus manjunathi Viraktamath and Viraktamath 1985: 305–307 , figs 1–15.

Diagnosis. Two round spots on foremargin of head, basal triangles of exposed mesonotum and two oval spots on mesoscutellum, one spot on mesopleuron, black. Face without black markings. Aedeagus with shaft pustulate, with one pair of dorsally directed thin basal processes arising on preatrium, shaft not constricted at base, preatrium and dorsal apodeme well-developed. Female sternite VII narrowed in posterior half with broad median lobe having almost straight margin posteriorly ( Fig. 60N). Valvula II with prominent, widely spaced teeth ( Figs 64O–P).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Karnataka: Hebri (30 km NE Udupi), 11.i.1984, ex mango, Shashidhar Coll. ( UASB) . Paratype. 1♀, data asfor holotype ( UASB) . Other material. INDIA: Karnataka: 1 ♂, Coorg, Galibeedu, 1074m, 10.iv.2011, at light, A.N. Reddy ; 1 m # Sirsi: Unchalli falls , 510m, 20.xi.2012, at light, A.N. Reddy. INDIA: Kerala: 1 ♂ Nilambur , 140m, 20.xi.2008, at light, Shankar Murthy ( UASB) .

Remarks. Viraktamath & Viraktamath (1985) adequately described this species and also figured the male genitalia. This species differs from other species of Busoniomimus known from the Oriental region in having basal pair of dorsally directed ventral processes; the aedeagal shaft is also not constricted at base. This species was collected on mango. Gnaneswaran (2021) recorded this species from Hanguranketa, Sri Lanka. This species breeds on Garcina gummi-gutta (L.) N. Robson ( Clusiaceae ) and is considered as a pest on this plant in Kerala (Maicykutty et al. 2002, Sivakumar et al. 2013). It is attended by the ant, Anoplolepis gracilipes (Smith, F.) ( Shivakumar et al. 2013) .