<documentID-CLB-Dataset="8881"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483"ID-GBIF-Dataset="05293484-bc29-4abc-99f1-d9de8f1e2e58"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2615-37-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="522C40D3F51C56C0976EBF128299DE6B"ID-ZooBank="7E59B89900ED46CE85052E510D985C95"ModsDocID="1314-2615-37-1"checkinTime="1610662607199"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Hoch, Hannelore, Sendra, Alberto, Montagud, Sergio, Teruel, Santiago & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes"docDate="2021"docId="8901C987D42550BD9F42C89FFF86E8FC"docLanguage="en"docName="SubterBiol 37: 1-26"docOrigin="Subterranean Biology 37"docPubDate="2021-01-11"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483"docTitle="Valenciolenda Hoch & Sendra 2021, gen. nov."docType="treatment"docUuid="87FFCB90-92D3-4CED-AAA2-DEDDD769C90E"docUuidSource="ZooBank"docVersion="5"id="522C40D3F51C56C0976EBF128299DE6B"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="522C40D3F51C56C0976EBF128299DE6B"masterDocTitle="First record of a cavernicolous Kinnaridae from the Old World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Kinnaridae, Adolendini) provides testimony of an ancient fauna"masterLastPageNumber="26"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732844658212"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="85F56FA32DEC0EBBAB7586346F7AC9F6">First record of a cavernicolous Kinnaridae from the Old World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha, Kinnaridae, Adolendini) provides testimony of an ancient fauna</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="5C14E0B600470CAA42BA70A8EF5D239B">Museum fuer Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Humboldt-University, Invalidenstr. 43, D- 10115 Berlin, Germany</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="0A3E53C33C5CB3180C0BDEF83652DF70">Colecciones Entomologicas Torres-Sala; Servei de Patrimoni Historic, Ajuntament de Valencia, Valencia, Spain & AEPS. Asociacion para el Estudio del Patrimonio Subterranea, Valencia, Spain</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="06252104DAC371FA8DA86140DE5ABB07">Museu de la Universitat de Valencia d'Historia Natural. C / Dr. Molinar, 50, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="AB24099259F5A3138DDF740E8CED9A9E">Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterranea, Setor de Zoologia Geral - Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras Lavras, Campus Universitario, Caixa Postal 3037, Minas Gerais, Brazil</mods:affiliation>
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Small kinnarid (ca. 3-4 mm body length), strongly troglomorphic: compound eyes and ocelli absent, tegmina reduced in length but surpassing lateral body margins, wings vestigial, body whitish, pigmentation largely reduced (Fig.
<figureCitationid="9D56987666E5C4E17BB600FD5BC645E2"captionStart="Figure 1"captionStartId="F1"captionText="Figure 1. Valenciolenda fadaforesta sp. nov., habitus, dorsal view a adult male, dorsal view b nymph (IV. instar) from ' Murcielagos' cave (Vilamarxant, Valencia) (photos by: Sergio Montagud Alario) c morphological analogy in the troglobitic Solonaima baylissa Hoch & Howarth, 1989 (Cixiidae) from Australia: habitus, adult male, dorsal view. Body length 4.5 mm (photo by H. Reimer, Marburg, used with permission)."figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483.figure1"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496080"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">1a</figureCitation>
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by the unique combination of the following characters: narrow and short vertex; short and wide tegmina, in life held nearly horizontally over the body and, in dorsal view, forming a near circle; male genitalia with genital segment in caudal aspect longish ovate, not constricted; anal segment short, ventrocaudally with two arm-like processes, genital styles slender at base, apically strongly enlarged, medially concave; aedeagus tubular stout, distally widening, ventrocaudal margin with a short, acute tip.
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<figureCitationid="F9EB40B739FDDC83C9E3CB2FEDD38ED6"captionStart="Figure 2"captionStartId="F2"captionText="Figure 2. Valenciolenda fadaforesta sp. nov. a head and thorax, dorsal view b head, ventral view c same, left lateral view. Scale bar: 0.5 mm."figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483.figure2"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496081"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">2</figureCitation>
). Vertex short, with a very obtuse median carina, area of vertex slightly tilted against area of frons, slightly wider posteriorly than anteriorly, anterior margin slightly concave or nearly straight, posterior margin shallowly concave. Frons narrow, ca. 1.45
longer than post- and anteclypeus combined; surface medially smooth, devoid of a median carina; lateral margins distinctly ridged and directed laterally. Frontoclypeal suture shallowly arched, in a furrow between frons and postclypeus. Post- and anteclypeus with a distinct median carina, carina gradually vanishing towards frontoclypeal suture. Rostrum elongate; in repose well surpassing caudal margin of hind coxae; third joint shorter than second. Compound eyes and ocelli absent. Antennae with short scape, subcylindrical; pedicel subcylindrical, ca. 1.8
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wider than medially long, posterior margin shallowly concave; carinae distinct, median carina reaching, but not surpassing anterior margin of pronotum; lateral carinae very shallowly S-shaped, joining hind margin laterally; mesonotum distinctly tricarinate, slightly wider than medially long; tegulae vestigial. Hind tibiae laterally unarmed, distally with 6-7 slender, terete spines, indistinctly grouped (3+4), and forming a shallow arc. First metatarsal joint with 4-5, 2nd metatarsal joint with 3-5 sturdy denticles (bilaterally and individually variable). Pretarsal claws and arolia small, inconspicuous. 2nd and 3rd metatarsal joints together slightly shorter than 1st metatarsal joint. Tegmina (Fig.
longer than wide, with terminal margin obliquely transversely truncate; in life held nearly flat over the body and forming a near circle, in the female narrower: ca. 2
longer than wide, laterally considerably exceeding the lateral margins of thorax and abdomen. Costal vein strong, in life covered with conspicuous filamentous waxy exudations (so far only observed in males). Venation in proximal part as in epigean
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), i.e., common claval vein (Pcu and A1) reaching hind margin of clavus (vein A2); basal cell of forewing open, i.e., not closed by anastomosis of M and CuA, no arculus developed; tegmen distally of nodal line distinctly reduced, with 6-7 marginal cells (Fig.
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<figureCitationid="61B0DB052A069AC7DA346744BC158FD4"captionStart="Figure 5"captionStartId="F5"captionText="Figure 5. Valenciolenda fadaforesta sp. nov. Male genitalia a genital segment, caudal view b anal segment, dorsal view c left genital style, left lateral view d same, ventral view e aedeagus, left latero-dorsal view f same, ventral view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm."figureDoi="10.3897/subtbiol.37.60483.figure5"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496084"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">5</figureCitation>
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of the non-piercing type; sternite VII in ventral view trapezoidal, with lateral margins diverging caudally, caudal margin straight; gonocoxae VIII bilobate; anal segment tubular.
The genus name is a combination of Valencia, the capital city of the Valencian Community, an autonomous region of Spain in the east of the Iberian Peninsula where the type locality is located, and the tribe of
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