Ventrolidia, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, 2953, Zootaxa 2953, pp. 1-85 : 13-14

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/27115005-FFF9-7847-6FEE-1D2AFA5579BC

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Ventrolidia
status

gen. nov.

Genus Ventrolidia View in CoL , gen. nov.

Type-species, Boliviela ortha DeLong.

Boliviela ortha DeLong 1969: 466 View in CoL [n. sp.].

Ventrolidia ortha (DeLong) View in CoL , comb. new

Boliviela paraortha Nielson 1988:238 View in CoL [n. sp.].

Ventrolidia paraortha (Nielson) View in CoL , comb. new

Moderately large, slightly robust species, 7.80–8.90 mm. General color dark brown to black with ochraceous to pale translucent markings on forewings. Head narrower than pronotum; crown narrower to as broad as width of eyes, produced distally beyond anterior margin of eyes, lateral margins carinate; pronotum, mesonotum and forewing venation as in Boliviela ; clypellus broad, inflated basally; male pygofer large with 2 very prominent caudal processes; aedeagus tubular with 2 very long, distinctive ventral processes; style very long, inflated in distal ¼; dorsal connective bifurcate basally, enclosing aedeagal shaft, attached to base of ventral processes.

Remarks. This genus was formed by fragmentation of Boliviela from which 2 species were removed to comprise the new genus. The aedeagus processes separate the genus from all other genera in the Boliviela genus group.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Loc

Ventrolidia

Nielson, M. W. 2011
2011
Loc

Boliviela paraortha

Nielson, M. W. 1988: 238
1988
Loc

Boliviela ortha

DeLong, D. M. 1969: 466
1969
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