Leafhopper tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) of the Indian subcontinent
Meshram, Naresh M.
Zootaxa
2019
2019-08-12
4653
1
1
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8JQR8
Meshram, 2019
Meshram
2019
[151,348,153,180]
Insecta
Cicadellidae
Calodia
Animalia
Hemiptera
13
14
Arthropoda
species
tridenta
sp. nov.
Figs. 1 L, 4 L, 7 L, 23A–H. Male. Head, pronotum and mesonotum, black. Eyes and ocelli black. Face yellow with brown frontal sutures. Forewing deep piceous throughout with narrow hyaline band along costal margin. Metasternites black. Hind femur with apices and tarsi dark brown, spines on hind tarsi yellow, claws black ( Figs.1 L, 4 L, 7 L). Malegenitalia.Pygofer with short caudoventral process ( Fig. 23 H). Subgenital plate long, slightly broader medially and slightly narrowed apically, with a few short, fine setae laterally ( Fig. 23 E). Style short, broad in basal ½, apophysis short ( Fig. 23 F). Connective as long as wide at base ( Fig. 23 G). Aedeagus with shaft in lateral view angled dorsad near apex, with two subapical processes, distal process glabrous, proximal process short, 0.8x as long as distal process, trifurcate apically, bases of processes separated by a distance nearly half as long as length of distal process, gonopore arising distad of proximal process ( Figs. 23A–D). Measurements. Male 6.7 mmlong, 1.8 mmwide across eyes and 2.1 mmwide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Kerala: Nelliampathy, 08 051’10.04” N, 77 002’04.74” E, 158m, 11.v.2011, at Mercuryvapour lamp, N. M. Meshram Coll.( NPC). Etymology.The name tridentais descriptive for the 3 branched proximal process of the aedeagus.
Remarks. Calodia tridenta sp. nov.is similar to C. subcristaand can be easily distinguished by the trifurcate proximal process ( Figs. 23A–D) of the aedeagus which is bifurcate ( Figs. 22A–D) in C. subcrista.
2332229179
2011-05-11
NPC
Mercury & N. M. Meshram Coll.
India
158
0.8527889
Nelliampathy
1
0.03465
13
14
1
1
Kerala
holotype