Docalidia rondoniensis, 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 : 57

Docalidia rondoniensis , sp. nov.

(Plate IVA, Figs. 209–217 )

Length. Male 9.00 mm., female unknown

External morphology. Large, robust species. General color of dorsum dark brown throughout except eyes black (Plate IVA), face light brown with black markings.

Head broad, much narrower than pronotum, anterior margin rounded; crown broad, distinctly wider than eye, lateral margins slightly convergent basally, pronotum longer than crown, surface bullated, mesonotum large, about 1/4 longer than pronotum; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins convex, median longitudinal carina distinct; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, apex flared.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view large, narrowly triangulate, caudodorsal process long, broad basally, tapered distally, caudoventral process reduced to small lenticular lobe below base of caudodorsal process ( Fig. 209 ); segment X with globulate ventral process, process spiculate ventrally ( Fig. 210 ); right subgenital plate large, broadly oblanceolate, glabrous ( Fig. 211 ); right style very long, much longer than aedeagus, robust, small triangulate lobe laterally near middle of apophysis, 2 rows of fine, short setae in distal 1/8 ( Figs. 212, 213 ); aedeagus, long, narrow, tubular, slightly inflated medially in ventral view, tapered distally, ventral process near middle of shaft, gonopore submedial on ventral margin ( Figs. 214, 215 ); connective T-shaped, arms narrow, apex abruptly curved anteriorly, membrane absent, medial ridge short, stem short with narrow narrow process distally ( Fig. 216 ); dorsal connective moderately long, strapped shape, base broad, tapered distally ( Fig. 217 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL: Rondonia, 62, km. SE Ariquemes, 7–18 Nov 1995, W. J. Hansen ( MNRJ).

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the state of Rondonia, Brazil.

Remarks. From D. ampla ( Nielson, 1990:231) to which it has similar style and pygofer, rondoniensis , sp. nov. can be separated by the globulate ventral process of segment X, presence of a triangulate lobe near the middle of the stylar apophysis and the medial position of the aedeagal ventral process.

Figures

FIGURES 209–217. Docalidia rondoniensis, sp. nov. (209) pygofer, lateral view; (210) segment X, lateral view; (211) right subgenital plate, ventral views; (212) right style, lateral view; (213) right style, dorsal view; (214) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (215) aedeagus, ventral view; (216) connective, caudal view; (217) dorsal connective, dorsal view.