Hecalus tumidus Nikoshe & Meshram, 2020

Nikoshe, Akash P., Meshram, Naresh M., Stuti & Dey, Debjani, 2020, Indian Hecalina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Hecalini) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4881 (3), pp. 573-585 : 579-580

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.9
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4338236
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3B341906-E6D1-4821-8B76-DC0C747AE5C8
taxon LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:act:3B341906-E6D1-4821-8B76-DC0C747AE5C8
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Hecalus tumidus Nikoshe & Meshram
status	sp. nov.

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Hecalus tumidus Nikoshe & Meshram View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs. 4, 9, 14 View FIGURES 1–15 , 41–47 View FIGURES 41–47 )

Color yellow-green to green ( Figs. 4, 9 View FIGURES 1–15 ). Vertex and face ( Fig. 14 View FIGURES 1–15 ) greenish yellow without submarginal fuscous lines, forewings subhyaline, black spot at end of clavus. Bases of tibial macrosetae and tarsi light brown.

Head including eyes 0.9x as long as width of pronotum. Head not much produced in front, crown length 0.5x shorter than width between eyes. Face 0.8x as long as wide. Frontoclypeus longer than wide; frontal suture, terminating laterad of ocelli. Ocelli near anterior margin, very closely oppressed to eyes. Pronotum length 0.4x as long as wide and 1.5x length of scutellum.

Male genitalia. Pygofer ( Fig. 41 View FIGURES 41–47 ) longer than wide Valve broadly triangular. Subgenital plates elongate, broad basally, tapering apically, with three submarginal microsetae ( Fig. 42 View FIGURES 41–47 ). Style ( Fig. 43 View FIGURES 41–47 ) with obtusely angulate preapical lobe, with few microsetae, apophysis short, 0.2 of total length. Connective ( Fig. 47 View FIGURES 41–47 ) with stem 1.5x shorter than arms. Aedeagal shaft in posterior view swollen in subapical 1/3, narrowed apically and in middle, broad basally, with pair of moderately robust, sinuate or straight apical processes extended anterolaterad, gonopore subapical on ventral margin ( Figs. 44–46 View FIGURES 41–47 ).

Measurements (mm). Male 5.15 long, 1.39 wide across eyes, 1.12 wide across hind margin of pronotum.

Type material. Holotype ³, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Kinnaur District, Powari (31°31’42”N 78°16’19”E), 14.viii.2017, Sweep net Coll. Rajgopal, N. N. ( NPC). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The species name (Latin: tumid meaning swollen) alludes to the swollen aedeagal shaft.

Remarks. Hecalus tumidus sp. nov. externally resembles H. ghaurii (Distant) ( Figs. 1, 6, 11 View FIGURES 1–15 , 16–26 View FIGURES 16–26 ) but differs in having the head shorter and the aedeagal shaft swollen in the subapical 1/3. The apical pair of processes is thicker and directed ventrally compared to H. ghaurii in which they are thinner and directed laterodorsally.