Scaphoideus vaticus, Viraktamath, C. A. & Mohan, G. S., 2004

Viraktamath, C. A. & Mohan, G. S., 2004, A revision of the deltocephaline leafhopper genus Scaphoideus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 578, pp. 1-48 : 45

Scaphoideus vaticus sp. nov.

Figs 213–217 .

Head yellow. Vertex with an anterior submarginal chocolate­brown band and a transverse orange­red broad stripe with anterior margin chocolate brown. Frontoclypeus yellow with four transverse chocolate brown bands. Pronotum with an anterior median orange spot continued laterally as chocolate brown band and a submarginal transverse brownish orange band. Scutellum with dark basal triangles, with orange spot on inner margin, apical half ivory yellow, apex brown. Front wing brownish with hyaline spots. Head as wide as pronotum. Vertex about as long as inter­ocular distance.

Male genitalia: Pygophore rounded caudally. Subgenital plate elongate, triangular with a parallel­sided caudal extension, 4.75 as long as maximum width at base, with an oblique row of five long setae. Connective with arms longer than stem, paraphyses directed laterally at base then twisted caudally at acute angle and sinuate, caudally narrowed. Style with well­developed subapical lobe, apophysis slender, apically narrowed, laterally curved. Aedeagus with well­developed dorsal apodeme, preatrium well­developed, shaft rather cylindrical with a pair of short apical and a pair of subapical longer processes, gonopore large, apical on ventral margin.

Measurements: Male 4.30 mm long, 1.12 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined: MYANMAR: holotype ɗ, Bhamo, Birmania, Fea, vi.1885, 168 (the number on a separate blue coloured label) ( MCSG). Paratypes: 2 specimens (sex? abdomen missing), data as holotype but without the number label ( MCSG).

Remarks: S. vaticus externally resembles ornatus in coloration but can readily be distinguished from it by the differently shaped paraphyses and by the presence of two pairs of processes on the aedeagal shaft.

Figures

FIGURES 206 – 217. Species of Scaphiodeus. 206 – 212. S. varna sp. nov. 206. Male pygophore; 207. Subgenital plate; 208. Style; 209. Apophysis of style; 210. Connective and paraphyses; 211. Aedeagus, lateral view; 212. Same, caudal view. 213 – 217. S. vaticus sp. nov. 213. Male paraphysis lateral view; 214. Connective and paraphyses, dorsal view; 215. Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; 216. Same, caudal view; 217. Style. Scale line indicates 0.1 mm.