Calodia tridenta, Meshram, 2019

Meshram, Naresh M., 2019, Leafhopper tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) of the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 4653 (1), pp. 1-91 : 14

Calodia tridenta sp. nov.

Figs. 1 L , 4 L , 7 L , 23 A–H.

Male. Head, pronotum and mesonotum, black. Eyes and ocelli black. Face yellow with brown frontal sutures. Forewing deep piceous throughout with narrow hyaline band along costal margin. Metasternites black. Hind femur with apices and tarsi dark brown, spines on hind tarsi yellow, claws black ( Figs.1 L , 4 L , 7 L ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer with short caudoventral process ( Fig. 23 H ). Subgenital plate long, slightly broader medially and slightly narrowed apically, with a few short, fine setae laterally ( Fig. 23 E ). Style short, broad in basal ½, apophysis short ( Fig. 23 F ). Connective as long as wide at base ( Fig. 23 G ). Aedeagus with shaft in lateral view angled dorsad near apex, with two subapical processes, distal process glabrous, proximal process short, 0.8x as long as distal process, trifurcate apically, bases of processes separated by a distance nearly half as long as length of distal process, gonopore arising distad of proximal process ( Figs. 23 A–D).

Measurements. Male 6.7 mm long, 1.8 mm wide across eyes and 2.1 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Kerala: Nelliampathy , 08 0 51’10.04” N, 77 0 02’04.74” E, 158m, 11.v.2011, at Mercury vapour lamp, N. M. Meshram Coll. ( NPC).

Etymology. The name tridenta is descriptive for the 3 branched proximal process of the aedeagus.

Remarks. Calodia tridenta sp. nov. is similar to C. subcrista and can be easily distinguished by the trifurcate proximal process ( Figs. 23 A–D) of the aedeagus which is bifurcate ( Figs. 22 A–D) in C. subcrista .

Figures

FIGURES 1 A–O. Habitus of Coelidiini species. A. Calodia deergha sp. nov., male; B. C. keralica sp. nov., male; C & D. C. kodikanelensis Nielson, male and female; E. C. kumari sp. nov., male; F & G. C. neofusca sp. nov., male and female; H & I. C. ostenta (Distant), male and female; J. C. periyari sp. nov., male; K. C. subcrista Nielson, male; L. C. tridenta sp. nov., male; M. Glaberana acuta sp. nov., male; N & O. G. khasiensis (Rao), male and female.

FIGURES 4 A–O. Habitus of Coelidiini species, lateral view. A. Calodia deergha sp. nov., male; B. C. keralica sp. nov., male; C & D. C. kodikanelensis Nielson, male and female; E. C. kumari sp. nov., male; F & G. C. neofusca sp. nov., male and female; H & I. C. ostenta (Distant), male and female; J. C. periyari sp. nov., male; K. C. subcrista Nielson, male; L. C. tridenta sp. nov., male; M. Glaberana acuta sp. nov., male; N & O. G. khasiensis (Rao), male and female.

FIGURES 7 A–P. Faces of Coelidiini species. A. Calodia deergha sp. nov., male; B. C. keralica sp. nov., male; C & D. C. kodikanelensis Nielson, male and female; E. C. kumari sp. nov., male; F & G. C. neofusca sp. nov., male and female; H & I. C. ostenta (Distant), male and female; J. C. periyari sp. nov., male; K. C. subcrista Nielson, male; L. C. tridenta sp. nov., male; M. Glaberana acuta sp. nov., Male; N & O. G. khasiensis (Rao), male and female. P. Glaberana purva sp. nov., male.

FIGURES 22 A–I. Calodia subcrista Neilson, male genitalia. A & B. Aedeagus, dorsal view; C & D. Aedeagus, lateral view; E. Subgenital plate, dorsal view; F. Style, dorsal view; G. Connective, dorsal view; H. Pygofer, lateral view; I. Pygofer, ventral view.

FIGURES 23 A–H. Calodia tridenta sp. nov., male genitalia.A & B. Aedeagus, dorsal view; C & D. Aedeagus, lateral view; E. Subgenital plate, dorsal view; F. Style, dorsal view; G. Connective, dorsal view; H. Pygofer, lateral view.