Docalidida parvitatis, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, New species in the Neotropical genus Docalidia with a key to known species, notes on distribution, taxonomy and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini) 2952, Zootaxa 2952 (1), pp. 1-86 : 55

Docalidida parvitatis , sp. nov.

(Plate III I, Figs. 201–208 )

Length. Male 6.20 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Small, robust species. General color of dorsum dark brown to black with yellow markings; forewings with clavus black, veins black with small, yellow spots, 2 large yellow spots, one on costa, one apically; mesonotum and pronotum black, numerous small, yellow spots on mesonotum; crown yellow with orange markings, eyes grey (Plate III I); face black with few small, yellow spots on clypeus, anterior margin orange.

Head broad, narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown narrow, nearly 1/3 narrower than eye, produced anteriorly about 1/3 of entire length, disk foveate on each side of middle; eyes large, elongate ovoid, pronotum as long as crown, surface bullated, mesonotum large about twice as long as pronotum; forewings very broad, venation typical; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins broadly convex, median longitudinal carina prominent; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, lateral margins divergent distally, median longitudinal ridge inflated.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view small, triangulate, caudodorsal process small, digitate, caudoventral process reduced to small lenticular lobe below base of caudodorsal process ( Fig. 201 ); left subgenital plate moderately long, broad, glabrous ( Fig. 202 ); right style long, slightly longer than aedeagus, robust, inflated in distal 1/4 with row of stout setae laterally in distal half of apophysis ( Figs. 203, 204 ); aedeagus long, tubular, curved laterally in distal 1/ 4 in dorsal view, gonopore large, submedial ( Figs. 205, 206 ); connective T-shaped, apex curved anteriorly, membrane absent, medial ridge extending anteriorly beyond arms, stem long, narrow ( Fig. 207 ); dorsal connective, long narrow, bifurcate distally ( Fig. 208 ).

Specimens examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: Bolivia, SFF, Los Colorados, Alto el Mirador, 9º54’N 75º7’W., 400 m., Malaise, 12/6/01-12/12/01, E. Deulufelt, leg., M. 2628 (HB).

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the small size of the species.

Remarks. This species is similar to D. sinuata ( Nielson, 1979b:229) in style configuration and can be distinguished by the lack of an aedeagal ventral process, laterally curved apex and lack of segement X ventral process.

Figures

FIGURES 201–208. Docalidia parvitatis, sp. nov. (201) pygofer, lateral view; (202) left subgenital plate, ventral view; (203) right style, lateral view; (204) right style, dorsal view; (205) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (206) aedeagus, dorsal view; (207) connective, caudal view; (208) dorsal connective, dorsal view.