Revision of an extraordinary Selizini genus Urana Melichar, 1902 from Madagascar (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Flatidae)
Author
Stroiński, Adam
Author
Świerczewski, Dariusz
text
Journal of Natural History
2012
46
41 - 42
2577
2593
journal article
10.1080/00222933.2012.708457
1464-5262
5202137
Urana unica
sp. nov.
(
Figures 6
;
8
)
Etymology
The specific epithet comes from the Latin ‘unicus’ which means unique and extraordinary.
Diagnosis
See Diagnosis of
Urana paradoxa
Melichar, 1902
.
Description
Total length 0.94–1.00 cm.
Head.
Vertex: proportion A
/
B = 8.00–8.66. Frons: proportion C
/
E = 0.78–0.84; proportion D
/
E = 0.98–1.03.
Thorax.
Pronotum: proportion F
/
B = 5.00–7.00. Mesonotum: proportion G
/
F = 3.66–3.78, proportion G
/
B+F = 3.05–3.31, proportion G
/
H = 0.88–0.89. Tegmina: proportion I
/
J = 2.61–2.73.
Male genitalia.
Anal tube (in lateral view,
Figure 6B
): lower margin almost straight. Anal tube (dorsal view,
Figure 6A
): lateral margins almost straight and parallel; apical margin widely arcuate about as wide as median portion. Genital styles: posterior margin weakly concave in median portion. Periandrium (
Figure 6D–F
); basal part (on one side) with one dorsal, two or three (
holotype
) or one or two (
paratype
) dorsolateral and one lateral tooth; ventral part without keel-shaped lobe but with three upper short lobes (
Figure 6F
); lateral part apically with huge two-armed appendage; basal arm single and short, oriented basad and curved ventrad; apical arm distinctly longer than basal one with three processes, from the longest basal to the shortest apical. Aedeagus s.s.: lateral lobes big and placed medially, dorso-apical lobes as in
Figure 6G–I
.
Type material
Holotype
,
♂
: [
Chafnes
anosyennes
Massif
nord,
1900 m
haute
Ranomandry
17
/
26 November 1971
], [
Museum Paris
Madagascar
East
mission C.N.
R
.S.
R
.C.P. n
◦
225] – (
MNHN
).
Paratype
,
♂
: [
Chafnes
anosyennes
Massif
nord,
1900 m
haute
Ranomandry
17
/
26 November 1971
], [
Museum Paris
Madagascar
East
mission C.N.
R
.S.
R
.C.P. n
◦
225] – (
MNHN
)
.
Distribution
Madagascar
:
Toliara Province
.