Review of the leafhopper genus Penthimia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of seven new species
Author
Shobharani, M.
Author
Viraktamath, C. A.
Author
Webb, M. D.
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-03
4369
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journal article
31087
10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.1
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Penthimia mudonensis
Distant
Figs 25–26
, 55.
Penthimia mudonensis
Distant 1912
: 444
; 1918: 20.
Dorsum reddish-brown, vertex with anterior and basal margins and central longitudinal line black.
Female genitalia.
Hind margin of seventh sternite with median projection having concavity in middle.
Length.
Female
5.30mm
.
Type material examined.
MYANMAR: syntype, ♂
P. mudonensis
:
‘
Penthimia mudonensis Dist.
type [hw]’, ‘Mudon, Amhirst Dist., Tenasserim,
8.iii.1908
. N.A.’ ‘5725/19’ (ZSI).
Other
material examined.
MYANMAR
:
1♀
,
Yadashe
,
10.iii.1918
,
A.G.R. Coll.
R-8239. (
NPC
).
Remarks
. This
species was described from an unknown number of specimens (syntypic) with the following data: ‘
Tenasserim
;
Mudon-Amherst Distr.
(
Annandale
,
Ind. Mus.
).’
The
syntype
male in ZSI has the head slightly damaged.
This species can be distinguished by its overall pale coloration with black markings on the head and by the shape of the posterior margin of female sternite VII (
Figs 25
, 55).