Two new species of Graphocephala Van Duzee from Costa Rica (Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae)
Author
Godoy, Carolina
Author
Villalobos, William
text
Zootaxa
2006
1298
61
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.173572
0f4a382e-d9e9-4536-ad66-c389cc60ccb5
11755326
173572
Genus
Graphocephala
Van Duzee
Type
Species.
Cicada coccinea
Forster
, by original designation.
Graphocephala
Va
n Duzee 1916a:66.
Diagnosis.
Male
4.2–9.4 mm
. Color variable, most species with lenticular impressions on crown. Head weakly to well produced, anterior margin subangulate to broadly rounded in dorsal view; clypeus convex medially or nearly flattened, muscle impressions distinct or not. Thorax with pronotal width varying interspecifically compared with transocular width of head. Forewing with membrane distinct or not; veins distinct or not; in general with three closed anteapical cells and four apical cells; forewings of female in resting position exceeding apex of ovipositor.
Hind
leg almost always with femoral setal formula 2:1:1, length of first tarsomere variable in compararison to combined length of other two tarsomeres and with two rows of small setae on plantar surface. Male genitalia: Pygofer slightly to moderately produced, apex convex, with macroseae confined to apical half of disc, process on dorsal margin present or absent. Subgenital plate triangular, varying in length, with macro or microsetae, arranged in one or several rows. Style extending posteriorly to a varying degree compared to extent of connective, without a distinct preapical lobe. Aedeagus with shaft usually short, almost always without processes, dorsal apodeme varying from large to very small. Paraphyses asymmetrical. Female abdominal sternum VII with margin produced posteriorly, its apex varying from rounded to obtusely or acutely angular.