Tribe Teruliini: new genera and new species of Neotropical leafhoppers with a revised key to genera and species, new records and notes on distribution and taxonomy (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae)
Author
Nielson, M. W.
text
Zootaxa
2011
2011-03-18
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2952.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1
1175-5326
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Sapingia calcaris
,
sp. nov.
(
Plate 2E
,
Figs. 101–108
)
Length.
Male 5.50–6.0 mm., female unknown.
External morphology.
Small, robust species. General color concolorous dull yellow; forewings with small ivory spots on veins (
Plate 2E
); face dull yellow. Head slightly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown about 1/3 narrower than width of eyes, produced anteriorly about ¼ of entire median length, lateral margins nearly parallel, disk flat; pronotum about equal in length to crown, surface bullated; mesonotum large, twice as long as median length of pronotum; forewings long, broad, 3 anteapical cells present, outer one closed; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex, median longitudinal carina prominent; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, apex expanded.
FIGURES 101–108
.
Sapingia calcaris
,
sp. nov
.
(101) pygofer, lateral view; (102) right subgenital plate, ventral view; (103) right style, ventral view; (104) right style, lateral view; (105) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (106) aedeagus, ventral view; (107) connective, dorsal view; (108) dorsal connective, dorsal view.
Male genitalia.
Pygofer in lateral view small, triangulate, small sharp process on caudoventral margin, small lobe on caudodorsal margin (
Fig. 101
); subgenital plate long, narrow, few short setae apically (
Fig. 102
); style shorter than aedeagus, apophysis long, narrow (
Figs. 103, 104
); aedeagus short, tubular in distal ¾, apex curved laterally in lateral view, row of short spines on dorsal side of gonopore, gonopore large (
Figs. 105, 106
); connective Y-shaped, small, median ridge present, membranous, stem short (
Fig. 107
); dorsal connective short, plate-like (
Fig. 108
).
Material examined.
Holotype
male.
COLOMBIA
:
Vichada
, PNN,
Tuparro
,
Cerro Tomas
,
5º21’N
–
67º51’W
,
140 m
.
,
Malaise
, 1/21/01–1/31/01, M. 1381,
W. Villalba
,
Leg.
, (
IAHC
)
.
Paratypes
.
1 male
, same data as holotype except 5/22/01–6/3/01, M.1792 (
MLBM
)
.
Etymology.
The name is descriptive for the spur-like caudoventral process on the pygofer.
Remarks.
This species has no close relatives. It can be distinguished from all other species by the spur like caudoventral process on the pygofer (
Fig. 102
).