Taharana angusta, Nielson, 2015

Nielson, M. W., 2015, A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), Insecta Mundi 2015 (410), pp. 1-202 : 63-64

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5181587

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E574C53C-B3FF-4030-94F9-447B68595ABF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190926

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA1722-D834-9601-7DAE-F9A2FDB7FCD6

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Taharana angusta
status

sp. nov.

Taharana angusta View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Plate 6B View PLATE 6 , Fig. 332-338 View Figures 332-338 )

Description. Length. Male 7.60 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, slender species. General color black. Forewings with numerous, irregularly shaped brown spots in cells, veins with short, dark yellow stripes; mesonotum black; pronotum black, bullae dark yellow; crown black with small, dark brown spots, some contiguous; eyes light brown; clypeus black, with few short, dark yellow, transverse stripes on middle of lateral margins, rest of face light tan; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin narrowly rounded; crown narrower than width of eyes, slightly produced anteriorly, lateral margins convergent basally; eyes large, semiglobular; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins broadly convex, clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, slightly inflated longitudinally along middle, apex flared.

Male genitalia. Male pygofer in lateral view narrowly triangulate, glabrous, caudodorsal process short, slightly curved dorsally, apex truncate, caudoventral process with triangulate apex ( Fig. 332 View Figures 332-338 ), in dorsal view narrow, curved mesally in apical 1/3, apex pointed ( Fig. 333 View Figures 332-338 ); aedeagus moderately long, tubular, shaft in ventral view inflated in basal 1/3, finely toothed in distal 1/5 on dorsal margin ( Fig. 334, 335 View Figures 332-338 ); style in lateral view small, apophysis digitate, about as long as base ( Fig. 336 View Figures 332-338 ); dorsal connective long, narrow ( Fig. 334 View Figures 332-338 ); connective moderate size, arms tapered distally, medial ridge nearly complete, stem ovate ( Fig. 337 View Figures 332-338 ); subgenital plate long, broad, glabrous ( Fig. 338 View Figures 332-338 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. THAILAND: Chiang Mai, Doi Chiang Dao NP Nature trail / 19 o 24.278’N 98 o 55.311’E., 491 m., Pan trap, 30.ix-1.x.2007 / Songkran and Apichart, leg., T3181 ( QSBG) GoogleMaps . Paratype male, same data as holotype ( MLBM).

Etymology. The name of this species is descriptive for the narrow caudodorsal processes of the pygofer in dorsal view.

Remarks. From T. brevicutata to which it has similar caudoventral processes, T. angusta can be separated by the much narrower caudodorsal processes in dorsal view and by the much longer subgenital plate with evenly tapered apex.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Taharana

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