<documentid="4E344D928B8130A4D4E496B233367009"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="03B75F43F069FFBDFF48729C371922EE"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="Monobazus rotundus VIRAKTAMATH, WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025, sp. nov."docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="34"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="33"updateTime="1737389185710"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="1EFD25D46576C3C46721A48767160FA7">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="1325F2D0F069FFBCFF4872B93696254A"box="[151,219,1518,1545]"captionStart="FIGURES 5"captionStartId="46.[151,264,1828,1852]"captionTargetBox="[166,1431,205,1799]"captionTargetId="figure-26@46.[151,1435,181,1804]"captionTargetPageId="46"captionText="FIGURES 5A–R. Monobazus group of genera, habitus, dorsal and lateral view. A–B, Monobazus rotundus sp. nov., holotype male; C–F, M. rubrostriatus sp. nov., holotype male (CD) and paratype female (EF); G–J, M. sahyadricus sp. nov., holotype male (GH) and paratype female (IJ); K–N, M. sikkimensis sp. nov., holotype male (KL) and paratype female (MN); O–P, M. sudindicus sp. nov., holotype male; Q–R, Panghoella sinuata gen. et sp. nov., holotype male."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14703753"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/14703753/files/figure.png"pageId="32"pageNumber="33">Figs 5</figureCitation>
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in coloration but differs in the following combination of characters: crown almost as long as interocular distance, anteriorly conically rounded; male pygofer as long as wide in lateral view; posterior margin appears rounded, but mesally curved with hook-like stout apical process; aedeagus with ventral process arising in basal 0.25 length of shaft and exceeding shaft apex.
,face dark reddish brown with pale markings laterally on frontoclypeus, basal region of lora and lateral margins of genae.
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<paragraphid="8BA1EE55F069FFBCFF187059328D246A"blockId="32.[151,1437,1591,2013]"box="[199,1216,1807,1833]"pageId="32"pageNumber="33">Head wider than pronotum. Crown conically rounded, 0.9× as long as interocular distance.</paragraph>
. Pygofer about as long as wide in lateral view, posterior margin rounded and mesally curved, ventral process with indication of arising at basiventral region crossing pygofer diagonally with hook-like stout process exceeding posterior margin. Subgenital plate with macrosetae in distal half and also with hair-like setae, about 5.5× as long as wide basally. Aedeagus with shaft slightly tapered distally, curved dorsally at basal 0.33, ventral medial process arising at basal 0.25 length of shaft and exceeding shaft.
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. The species epithet is the Latin adjective rotundus, -a, -um (=round, circular, rotund, rounded), referring to the rounded posterior margin of the male pygofer.
