Revision of the endemic Malagasy leafhopper tribe Platyjassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae)
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
82FCB86C-54B4-456A-AE5E-D7847D271CB9
Illinois Natural History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
chdietri@illinois.edu
Author
Magalhães, Raysa Brito de
4C8219B1-56D6-4E5F-8156-86538351F85C
Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, 21941 - 971, RJ Brazil.
ray.bmagalhaes@gmail.com
Author
Takiya, Daniela M.
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Laboratório de Entomologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68044, Rio de Janeiro, 21941 - 971, RJ Brazil.
takiya@acd.ufrj.br
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-08-03
695
1
89
journal article
21374
10.5852/ejt.2020.695
c2e17975-440e-40f9-8b37-f078f9aadf1b
3973377
DC24EAB0-DCF5-44A8-B1A0-82BF25D280C2
Platyjasella cormorana
gen. et sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:
37289504-C79E-4CFB-BAA2-3B2616ABEE78
Figs 1S
,
7
L–N
Etymology
The species name refers to the shape of the style apex, being similar to the head of a cormorant (a group of common and widespread aquatic birds).
Material examined
Holotype
MADAGASCAR
•
♂
; “
MADAGASCAR
:
Mahajanga Province
,
Sofia District
,
45 km
S Antsohihy
,
5 km
W of Anjiamangirana
, elev
97 m
,
Feb 28 – March 7 2013
,
15°09.42′ S
47°44.05′ E
,
California Acad. of Sciences
, coll:
M. Irwin
,
R. Harin’Hala
,
malaise
,
Analagnambe dry degraded forest
MG-61- 100”;
CAS
.
Description
Length of male
6.3 mm
(female unknown). Color uniformly stramineous, except anterior margin of head black and forewing apex infused with brown pigment. Crown distinctly shorter than pronotum, anterior margin parabolic, lateral extensions overlapping ~¼ of eye margin. Hind tibial rows PD, AD and AV with 18, 12 and 13 macrosetae, respectively. Male pregenital sternite slightly longer than sternite VII, posterior margin weakly trilobed. Pygofer with dorsal process evenly tapered, nearly straight, extended posterodorsad, not reaching lobe apex, apex bluntly angulate. Style apophysis avicephaliform, with apex attenuate and extended posterolaterad, conspicuously denticulate ventrolaterally. Connective stem very short and narrow, arms widely divergent, anterior margin concave. Aedeagus with atrium narrowly V-shaped in posterior view, arms weakly divergent; shaft broad basally, tapered toward apex, curved strongly dorsad then nearly straight, with triangular posterolateral preapical process and short apical process extended anterad on left side, right side without processes.