Glaberana purva sp. nov.

Figs. 2 A, 5 A, 7 P, 27 A–H.

Male. Head ochraceous. Eyes grey, ocelli black. Face yellow with black band along inner margins of frontal suture. Pronotum and forewings brown speckled with minute golden yellow spots, with narrow hyaline band across forewing in distal ¾ length (Figs. 2 A, 5 A, 7 P). Thoracic sternites and pleurites dark brown. Bases of setae on hind legs and claws darker.

Male genitalia. Pygofer oval in basal 1/3 with caudodorsal prolongation forming caudodorsal process, with macrosetae arranged in a row in basal ¾, apical margin crenulate (Fig. 27 H); with short ventral digitate process (Fig. 27 G). Subgenital plate broadest at slightly distad of midlength and narrowed towards apex, terminated by apical spine (Fig. 27 D). Style short, broad at basal ½ and apophysis narrowed apically (Fig. 27 E). Connective about as long as basal width (Fig. 27 F). Aedeagus with shaft subapically broadened, with a patch of fine spicules ventrad of gonopore on dorsal margin, gonopore subapical (Fig. 27 A–D).

Measurements. Male 8.3 mm long, 2.0 mm wide across eyes and 2.4 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Manipur: Ukhrul, 25 0 06.485’ N, 94 0 21.022’ E, 1647m, 28.viii.2014, Sweep net, Yeshwanth, H.M. (UASB).

Etymology: The species name (Sanskrit: purva meaning East) refers to the Eastern region of India where the species lives.

Remarks. Glaberana purva sp. nov. is similar to G. aproboscidea (Zhang) and G. mengshuengensis (Zhang) from China but differs in the shape of the pygofer prolongation which is smoothly rounded with apical crenulations.