Singillatus parapectitus sp. nov.

Figs. 2 N, 5 N, 8 M, 41 A–G.

Male. Head yellow, crown with two black spots. Eyes grey with yellow border; ocelli black. Pronotum black. Forewing dark brown with yellow tinge, with narrow hyaline band along costal margin (Figs. 2 N, 5 N, 8 M).

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view triangular with long, narrow caudoventral process with pointed apex not exceeding posterior dorsal angle (Fig. 41 G). Subgenital plate long, with robust apical spine, sparsely setose apically (Fig. 41 D). Style short, broad basally and apophysis slightly narrowed apically with rounded apex (Fig.41 G). Connective longer than broad at base (Fig. 41 F). Aedeagus with long subapical process at a distance equal to its length from apex, slightly sinuate, apex with four teeth, gonopore basad of aedeagal process on lateral margin (Figs. 41 A–C).

Measurements. Male 7.4 mm long, 1.8 mm wide across eyes and 2.2 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: Chidu, 28 0 11’50.5’’N, 095 0 47’03.7’’E, 414m, 10.ix.2014, Sweep net, Yeshwanth, H.M. (UASB).

Etymology. The species is named for its external resemblance to Olidiana pectita (Distant) .

Remarks. Singillatus parapectitus sp. nov. externally resembles S. ventrospinatus (Nielson) but differs in having the subgenital plate with an apical stout spine and the aedeagal shaft with a series of apical teeth.