Calodia makayensis, Gnezdilov, 2021

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2021, New species of the genera Limentinus Distant, 1917 and Calodia Nielson, 1982 (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Coelidiinae) from the Makay Massif of Madagascar, with a key to Malagasy species, Zoosystema 43 (16), pp. 297-310 : 304-309

Calodia makayensis n. sp.

( Figs 4C, D ; 9 )

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Madagascar • ♂; Toliara Province, Massif du Makay ; 21°33.901’S, 45°04.456’E; 312 m; 15.I.2011; sweeping in wet forest; V. M. Gnezdilov leg.; ZIN.

ETYMOLOGY. — The species is named after the Makay Massif.

DIAGNOSIS. — Aedeagal shaft with only pair of different in shape and length spine-shaped subapical processes ( Fig. 9G, H ).

TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS. — According to the shape of aedeagus with right subapical process longer then left one and aedeagal apex with carina below gonopore ( Fig. 9G, H ) the species is closely related to Indian Calodia deergha Viraktamath et Meshram, 2019 ( Viraktamath & Meshram 2019: figs 15A-H) and to C. ostenta (Distant, 1918) ( Nielson 1982, figs 469, 470; Viraktamath & Meshram 2019, figs 20A-H), however, it is well differentiated by the pygofer lobes without ventral lobes and long styles ( Fig. 9A, C ). The peculiar long style, with median process ( Fig. 9F ), separates the new species from other Calodia species as well as from all other Coelidiini . Long and narrow styles, but without median processes, are known also for the African genera Africocoelidia Nielson, 1982 and Amplicoelidia Nielson, 1991 ( Nielson 1991, figs 11, 17).

DESCRIPTION

Structure

Crown slightly longer than wide basally. Pronotum 1.3 times as long as coryphe medially. Mesonotum 1.5 times as long as pronotum. Second metatarsomere with two spines laterally and two platellae between them ventroapically.

Coloration ( Fig. 4C, D )

Face with frontoclypeus light yellow, with dense brown dots; genae light brownish yellow; lorae, anteclypeus, legs, and body from below light yellow; ocelli burgundy; crown light yellow. Pronotum and mesonotum dark brown, with dense light yellow dots; paranotal lobes of pronotum light yellow. Forewings ochre, with dark brown to black veins, bearing light dots. Hindwings cinereous, with dark brown veins. Claws dark brown to black. Hind tibiae with brown to dark brown apices of spines. Abdominal tergites brown to dark brown, with light yellow hind margins. Pygofer lobes with light brown yellowish basal and apical angles and dark brown medially and from above; subgenital plate light brown yellowish basally and dark brown laterally and apically; anal tube dark brown.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 9 )

Anal tube 1.5 times as long as wide, flattened dorso-ventrally, slightly enlarged from base to apex (in dorsal view) ( Fig. 9A, B ). Anal column short. Pygofer covered by long setae; pygofer lobe triangularly elongate, with an additional small lobe on apical angle under anal tube, without ventral lobe ( Fig. 9A ); pygofer lobe apically with 4-5 macrosetae on its inner side ( Fig. 9D ). Subgenital plate long and narrow, rounded apically ( Fig. 9C ). Aedeagus asymmetrical; shaft long and narrow, straight (in ventral view), wider in its basal third, with pair of different in shape and length spine-shaped subapical processes ( Fig. 9G, H ); aedeagal apex with carina above the gonopore (in ventral view), hook-shaped and pointed (in lateral view); gonopore subapical, small. Connective arcuate (in dorsal view) ( Fig. 9E, G ). Style large, nearly as long as subgenital plate, with narrow, pointed apex and triangular process near midlength ( Fig. 9C, F, G ).

Measurement

Total length. 6.0 mm.

Figures

FIG. 4. — Coelidiini Dohrn, 1859, external view: A, B, Limentinus oryx n. sp., holotype, ZIN; C, D, Calodia makayensis n. sp., holotype, ZIN, dorsal view (A, C) and frontal view (B, D). Total length of the specimens: 6.0 mm.

FIG. 9. — Calodia makayensis n. sp.,holotype,ZIN,male genitalia:A, genital block (without aedeagus),lateral view;B, pygofer and anal tube,dorsal view;C, genital block (without anal tube, styles shaded), ventral view; D, apex of pygofer lobe, inner side; E, connective and basal part of aedeagus, dorsal view; F, right style, lateral view; G, aedeagus, connective, and style, ventral view; H, aedeagus and connective, lateral view (from right side). Not to scale.