<documentid="7730D6ADC3A1A9A59A241A7B58EC2494"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5567.1.1"ID-ISSN="1175-5334"ID-Zenodo-Dep="14703735"ID-ZooBank="AF6254F6-CE26-41FE-BB85-A3FFD16FAA39"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1737371447294"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="VIRAKTAMATH, C. A., WEBB, M. D. & YESHWANTH, H. M."docDate="2025"docId="03B75F43F05AFF88FF48730333222396"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5567.1.1.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5567 (1)"docSource="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5567.1.1"docStyle="DocumentStyle:5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3.19:Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleId="5EBBA59367AD13919D70D935FA04F6A3"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.monograph"docStyleVersion="19"docTitle="Madhyabus biligiris VIRAKTAMATH, WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="20"masterDocId="FF8E273BF049FF9CFFDF7756364D2343"masterDocTitle="Review of the Monobazus-group leafhopper genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of five new genera and twenty-eight new species"masterLastPageNumber="105"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="20"updateTime="1737389185710"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="FDAFD8AA1B3A1410EA17DA78D2191556">Review of the Monobazus-group leafhopper genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of five new genera and twenty-eight new species</mods:title>
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<figureCitationid="1325F2D0F05AFF8FFEC1732F376727D0"box="[286,298,1145,1171]"captionStart="FIGURES 8"captionStartId="49.[151,264,1751,1775]"captionTargetBox="[156,1430,186,1723]"captionTargetId="figure-17@49.[151,1435,181,1728]"captionTargetPageId="49"captionText="FIGURES 8A–S. Monobazus group of genera, faces. A, Banus curvatus sp. nov., male; B–C, B. spiculatus sp. nov., male (B) and female (C); D–E, B. umbratus (Melichar), male (D) and female (E); F, Chandibanus dorsospinosus gen. et sp. nov., male; G, Cicurbanus greeni (Melichar), male; H–I, C. serratus sp. nov., male (H) and female (I); J–K, Lankabanus attenuatus gen. et sp. nov., male (J) and female (K); L–M, Madhyabus biligiris gen. et sp. nov., male (L) and female (M); N, M. reticulatus sp. nov., male; O–P, Mavromoustaca brevispina sp. nov., male (O), female (P); Q–R, M. channabasavanna sp. nov., male (Q) and female (R); S, Mavromoustaca opressa sp. nov., male."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14703767"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14703767/files/figure.png"pageId="19"pageNumber="20">8</figureCitation>
. Ochraceous, crown, dorsum of thorax with dark brown markings. Male pygofer 1.5× or more longer than wide in lateral view, ventral process curved mesally in distal 0.33. Aedeagus depressed, atrium elongate, gonopore apical.
Distant. Face with lateral areas of frontoclypeus brownish, basal areas surrounding antennal base dark brown, one spot on each lateral margin of clypellus at base dark brown. Forewing with apices of veins reaching costal margin dark brown.
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<paragraphid="8BA1EE55F05AFF8FFF1872EB340426B8"blockId="19.[151,1437,1217,2036]"pageId="19"pageNumber="20">Head as wide as pronotum. Crown 0.5–0.7× as long as interocular width, anteriorly subconically rounded. Pronotum about twice as wide as long.</paragraph>
. Pygofer without anterior apodemes, 1.5× as long as broad in lateral view, ventral process mesally curved in distal 0.33, apex attenuated. Valve with posterior margin convex. Aedeagus depressed, with ventrally produced atrium, shaft slightly curved anteriorly, with triangular lateral processes in proximal half, apex produced slightly beyond gonopore, gonopore apical on ventral surface.
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, which also has an elongate aedeagal preatrium and connective with widely divergent arms. However, this species has ventral pygofer process (pygofer process on dorsal margin near segment X in
) and aedeagal shaft has a pair of mediolateral projections and apical gonopore (aedeagal shaft without median projections laterally and the gonopore subapical to apical in
