Four new species of tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) from the Afrotropical Region
Author
Wang, Xiu-Dan
Author
Dietrich, Christopher H.
Author
Zhang, Ya-Lin
text
Zootaxa
2018
4415
3
591
600
journal article
30145
10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.11
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1175-5326
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Brasura piscinura
sp. nov.
(
Figs 2, 4, 6
,
22–28
)
Description. Measurements.
Male body length
10.05 mm
; head width
2.61 mm
; crown length×width: 0.88×
1.06 mm
; eye width
0.89 mm
; frontoclypeus length
2.18 mm
; clypellus length
1.01 mm
; pronotum length×width 1.05×
3.11 mm
; mesonotum+scutellum length
1.63 mm
. Female unknown.
Crown light brown with a pair of darker maculae mesad of posteromedial eye corners (
Fig. 2
). Pronotum and mesonotum piceous with light brown granules; scutellum brown (
Fig. 2
). Elytra fuscous with light brown spots along veins, surface densely covered with numerous tiny pale spots (
Figs 2, 6
). Ratio of crown, pronotum and mesonotum midline is about 1:1.19:1.85.
Male genitalia.
Pygofer without processes, broad and swollen caudodorsally (
Fig. 23
). Segment X broad, lateral margins conveX (
Fig. 22
). Aedeagus moderately narrow with few short spines subbasally; distal half of shaft eXpanded, with row of numerous setiform spines on each side, strongly constricted subapically with apical section recurved to left; apeX widened and concave distally with serrated margin; gonopore lateral at midlength of shaft (
Figs 24–25
). Dorsal connective stick-like (
Fig. 25
). Style very short, attenuated distally with blunt apeX (
Fig. 26
). Connective asymmetrical with triangular base, anterior arms long and curved, apeX recurved (
Fig. 27
). Subgenital plate slender, outer margin slightly conveX, rounded apically with fine spines (
Fig. 28
).
Material
examined.
Holotype
: male,
Republic of the Congo
:
Department Pool
,
3°06.020′S
15°31.440′E
,
330m
,
26 Aug. 2008
, coll.
M. Braet
and M.
Sharkey.
Etymology.
The new species name is a Latin word, meaning fish tail, referring to the shape of the apeX of the aedeagus.
Remarks.
This species resembles
B. peditata
Nielson
but differs in having a dense row of spines on both sides of the aedeagal shaft and the apeX of the aedeagus fish tail shaped.