<documentid="DD2F24BBA0470E1ED9FDCD0236234658"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="03B75F43F06FFFBAFF48734D3484249E"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="Panghoella sinuata VIRAKTAMATH, WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="39"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="39"updateTime="1737389185710"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="1AA263E3F78F4F17F4078B3B3CE464A1">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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but differs in the male genitalia characters: male pygofer 1.6× as long as wide in lateral view, dorsal process almost reaching ventral margin, angularly curved at midlength posteriorly and with apex bifid (male pygofer less than 1.5× as wide as long and dorsal process almost straight, not reaching ventral margin in
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); subgenital plate with row of submarginal macrosetae (without macrosetae in
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) and aedeagal shaft robust, with rounded apex, basal processes shorter than shaft (aedeagal shaft slender with tapered apex and basal processes longer than shaft in
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. Greenish ochraceous. Crown yellowish with irregular pale orange spot on either side of median line. Face with lateral frontal sutures brown, frontoclypeus with lateral series of arcuate narrow brown stripes decreasing in length ventrally. Pronotum with series of anterior submarginal brown spots. Exposed mesonotum yellow, with basal triangles faintly brown. Forewing venation brown, with prominent spot on apices of clavus, longitudinal stripe along claval commissure between apices of claval veins, apices of veins (R
<paragraphid="8BA1EE55F06FFFBAFF187161337F2512"blockId="38.[151,1437,1159,2014]"box="[199,1330,1591,1618]"pageId="38"pageNumber="39">Crown 0.6× as long as interocular width conically rounded. Pronotum 2.2× as wide as long medially.</paragraph>
. Pygofer without anterior marginal apodemes, about 1.6× as long as wide in lateral view, posterior margin with short setae placed equidistant; dorsal process arising on dorsal margin about 0.66 distance from anterior margin, reaching ventral margin and angularly curved at mid length with bifid apex. Subgenital plate broad at base, about 2.7×as long as wide at base, with submarginal row of macrosetae in distal 0.75. Aedeagus with short and stout dorsal apodeme, shaft curved anteriorly, rounded at apex in lateral view, with basal pair of processes articulated with atrium, processes slender, about 0.66 as long as shaft in lateral view; gonopore apical.
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. The specific epithet is the Latin participle sinuatus, -a, -um (=sinuate, bent, curved), referring to the angulately curved dorsal processes of the pygofer.