Revision of the New World leafhopper genus Neozygina Dietrich & Dmitriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini)
Author
Dietrich, C. H.
Author
Dmitriev, D. A.
text
Zootaxa
2007
2007-05-17
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Neozygina abancayensis
n. sp.
(
Figs. 1T
,
4A–C
)
Diagnosis.
Length of male
3.1 mm
. Ground color stramineous, infused with brown; anteclypeus, lateral margin of frontoclypeus, mesonotal triangles, mesosternum, and abdominal terga brown; forewing without distinct markings. Male pygofer (
Fig. 4A
) with dorsal appendage arising near base, slender, acuminate, elevated and slightly arched above margin, in dorsal view curved slightly laterad, extended to apex of pygofer; ventral appendage arising preapically, well developed, extended dorsomesad. Aedeagus (figs. 4B, C) with preatrium short; shaft slightly compressed, in lateral view sinuate, with pair of subbasal dorsal teeth; paired subbasal processes approximately half length of shaft, divergent from shaft in lateral view, divergent from each other in posterior view at ca. 45° angle; paired distal processes arising near apex, moderately long, slender, extended ventrolaterad; gonopore apical.
Material examined.
Holotype
male,
PERU
:
Abancay
,
8 July 1960
(
J. Salazar
and
H. Fernandez
, on sugar cane) [
NCSU
]
.
Paratype
:
1 male
, same data [
NCSU
]
.
Note.
This is the only known South American
Neozygina
species
that lacks an emarginate aedeagal apex. The specific name refers to the
type
locality.