Punctijassus ivohibensis, Dietrich & Magalhães & Takiya, 2020

Dietrich, Christopher H., Magalhães, Raysa Brito de & Takiya, Daniela M., 2020, Revision of the endemic Malagasy leafhopper tribe Platyjassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 695, pp. 1-89 : 85-86

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.695

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4342189

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1B9D34BA-76F9-4219-A55A-D167B6D3F405

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Punctijassus ivohibensis
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Punctijassus ivohibensis View in CoL gen. et sp. nov.

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Etymology

The species name refers to the forest where the holotype was collected.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR • ♂; “ MADAGASCAR: Toliara Foret Ivohibe 55.0 km N Tolagnaro, 2–4 Dec 2006, 24°34′08″ S 047°12′14″ E, California Acad of Sciences coll. B.L. Fisher et al., malaise trap, elev 200 m, rainforest, BLF15448”; CAS. GoogleMaps

Paratype

MADAGASCAR • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Toliara, Foret Ivohibe , 55.0 km N of Tolagnaro; 24°34′08″ S, 47°12′14″ E; alt. 200 m; 2–4 Dec. 2006; B.L. Fisher et al. leg.; Malaise trap; rainforest; BLF15448; INHS GoogleMaps .

Description

Length of male 5.9 mm, female 6.5 mm. Crown with marginal rim and anterodorsal part of frontoclyepus black; middle and hind femur with conspicuous black spot on anterior surface of apex. Crown shorter than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded. Hind tibial rows PD, AD and AV with 17–18, 12–13, 14–15 macrosetae, respectively. Style apophysis slightly sinuate, nearly parallel-sided through most of length, apex curved dorsad, in ventral view nearly straight, evenly tapered in distal fourth. Connective with anterior margin roundly produced. Aedeagus with shaft large, strongly compressed, broad in lateral view, curved dorsad, with ventral lobe not longer than basal width, gonopore on posterior surface near apex; basal process long, evenly curved dorsad, extended nearly to gonopore. Female abdominal sternite VII with posterior margin weakly bilobed medially.

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Punctijassus

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