Molopopterus ugandica Cao & Dietrich, 2020

Cao, Yanghui, Dietrich, Christopher H., Dmitriev, Dmitry A. & Zhang, Yalin, 2020, Taxonomic study of some Afrotropical erythroneurine leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 4860 (3), pp. 301-351 : 331-335

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.3.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:AF0A05FA-F0B4-4D6D-82D9-2E77F92C789C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4413969

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D3133554-413D-5865-FF65-96DCFB18DBED

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scientific name

Molopopterus ugandica Cao & Dietrich
status

sp. nov.

4. Molopopterus ugandica Cao & Dietrich View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 17 View FIGURE 17 , 26 View FIGURE 26 u–x)

Description. Body dark lemon yellow (specimen preserved in ethanol before examination). Vertex with semicircular median area dark brown; eyes grey; anteclypeus slightly infuscated; pronotum with short medial band on anterior margin, midline and long band near posterior margin dark brown; mesonotum and brochosome area of forewing black. ( Figs 26 View FIGURE 26 u–x)

Male abdominal apodemes 2S ( Fig. 17a View FIGURE 17 ) extended to middle of sternite IV, apodemes 3T ( Fig. 17b View FIGURE 17 ) broad but short, not reaching hind margin of sternite III.

Pygofer lobe ( Fig. 17c View FIGURE 17 ) long, apex somewhat blunt, without microsetae on distal half. Subgenital plate ( Figs 17c, e View FIGURE 17 ) with about 2 macrosetae, with group of thickened microsetae on subbasal angle and continued with irregular rows of rigid microsetae to apex. Style ( Fig. 17f View FIGURE 17 ) with foot-like apex short and region between it and middle part long, preapical lobe relatively small, with row of sensory setae on preapical lobe. Connective ( Fig. 17g View FIGURE 17 ) with manubrium relatively broad.Aedeagal shaft ( Figs 17h, i View FIGURE 17 ) thin and relatively long, slightly arcuate, without process, atrium almost as long as shaft, dorsal apodeme closely appressed to preatrium; gonopore terminal on dorsal side.

Measurement. Male length 3.60mm.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, UGANDA, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Biolog- ical Field Station , 1484m, 0º34.405'N, 30º21.646'E, 02–12.viii.2005, Malaise trap, primary mid-altitude Rainforest, near stream, coll. S.van Noort (IMC). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The new species is named for the type locality, Uganda.

Diagnosis. This species is very similar to M. delta Dworakowska, 1973 , but the pygofer lobe is longer, the footlike apex of the style is shorter, the connective is narrower and the aedeagal shaft is curved.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Molopopterus

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