<documentid="9B9A1AAF39A0D12469F433D0C97B717D"ID-CLB-Dataset="298613"ID-DOI="10.11646/zootaxa.5463.1.10"ID-GBIF-Dataset="2ea16f20-c780-4dea-bf04-e4fd5af234a4"ID-ISSN="1175-5326"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11609937"ID-ZooBank="AB10C193-2552-40FB-AF8C-1ED78E306096"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatmentCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1718180302074"checkinUser="plazi"docAuthor="Gnezdilov, Vladimir M."docDate="2024"docId="03A887EA601AFF88948C4BE9FEDDFEEB"docLanguage="en"docName="zootaxa.5463.1.10.pdf"docOrigin="Zootaxa 5463 (1)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5463.1.10"docStyle="DocumentStyle:647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D.9:Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleId="647186512141C8FC8976D5BCC54AEB7D"docStyleName="Zootaxa.2013-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="9"docTitle="Dryadomorpha tricornis Gnezdilov 2024, sp. n."docType="treatment"docVersion="6"lastPageNumber="147"masterDocId="FF91FF92601BFF8A941B4832FFA6FF8E"masterDocTitle="A new species and new records of the leafhopper genera Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy, 1906 and Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Equatorial Africa"masterLastPageNumber="150"masterPageNumber="145"pageNumber="146"updateTime="1718659997668"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CLOSED">
<mods:titleid="052E9C344B559D1994E00DED5EE1C7C0">A new species and new records of the leafhopper genera Dryadomorpha Kirkaldy, 1906 and Stenogiffardia Evans, 1977 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Equatorial Africa</mods:title>
). Antenna greenish yellow light brown. Rostrum with dark brown to black second segment and brown third one. Fore wings from olive brown to dark brown. Hind wings opaque, with light brown veins. Legs greenish yellow to light brown, with light brown spines and dark brown spots around setae on tibiae. Fore trochanters dark brown.
). Frontoclypeus elongate. Anteclypeus elongate, enlarged apically. Laterofrontal sutures reaching ocelli. Lorae elongate oval, large, far not reaching gena margins. Rostrum short, reaching the fore trochanters only. Mesonotum nearly as long as pronotum medially. Hind wings nearly as long as fore wings. Hind femur with 2+1+1 spines apically. First metatarsomere longer than second one. Arolium of pretarsus large, reaching apices of claws, with deep median notch (in dorsal view) (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B94FD4DBEFE9EFA28"box="[230,312,1420,1446]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
). Each dorsolateral plate of arolium with a long seta.
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B95F04D82FDC5FA44"box="[491,611,1456,1482]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Figs 3–10</figureCitation>
). Pygofer with about five macrosetae on broad triangular lobes (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B915C4D82FA2BFA44"box="[1351,1421,1456,1482]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
), with a strong digitate process along the dorsal margin. Valve large, obtusely angulate posteriorly (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B90D64DE6FAB6FA60"box="[1229,1296,1492,1518]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
). Subgenital plates long beyond the length of pygofer, and with inner margin straight and narrow apically, with scattered fine setae. Style with apical denticle process straight, slightly beak-shaped at apex (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B97E54E2EFBF9F9B8"box="[1022,1119,1564,1590]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Figs 4, 8</figureCitation>
) and with lateral lobe nearly rectangular. Connective Y-shaped, with stem long and arms short (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B978E4E72FC7AF9D5"box="[917,988,1600,1627]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 5</figureCitation>
). Aedeagus curved dorsally, with three spine-shaped processes including a single apical dorsal process curved dorsally and two subapical ventral processes protruding forward (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B95654EBAFE62F92C"box="[382,452,1672,1698]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
), aedeagal shaft tubular and narrow in ventral view, curved dorsally (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B90CC4EBAFABAF92C"box="[1239,1308,1672,1698]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 7</figureCitation>
), gonopore apical. Apodemes of sternite II short, rounded, not reaching beyond hind margin of sternite (
<figureCitationid="133A2A79601AFF8B90BA4E9EFB54F948"box="[1185,1266,1708,1734]"captionStart="FIGURES 3–11"captionStartId="3.[151,264,1707,1731]"captionTargetBox="[161,1430,193,1677]"captionTargetId="figure-15@3.[151,1436,181,1684]"captionTargetPageId="3"captionText="FIGURES 3–11. Dryadomorpha tricornis sp. n., holotype, male genitalia and pretarsus. 3—genital capsule, lateral view; 4— style, dorsal view; 5—connective, dorsal view; 6—aedeagus and connective, lateral view; 7—aedeagus, ventral view; 8—style, ventral view; 9—valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; 10—apodemes of sternite II, 11—pretarsus, dorsal view. Not to scale."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11609943"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/11609943/files/figure.png"pageId="1"pageNumber="146">Fig. 10</figureCitation>
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based on the aedeagus with three spine-shaped processes, but can be distinguished by the apical position of the dorsal aedeagal spine (far below apex in
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but can be distinguished from the latter by the aedeagus with a single dorsal apical process rather than two dorsal subapical processes.