Three new species of Peruvian Nelidina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Neocoelidiinae) with key to males
Author
Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa
Author
Mejdalani, Gabriel
text
Zootaxa
2017
2017-12-15
4365
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4365.1.6
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Nelidina platypenis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 19–27
,
32, 33
)
Diagnosis.
Pygofer (
Fig. 21
) with dorsoapical lobe narrow and curved ventrally, horn-shaped. Style, in lateral view (
Fig. 24
), slightly broadened medially, apical third strongly curved dorsally. Aedeagus (
Figs 26, 27
) with shaft strongly flattened dorsoventrally; with pair of short and narrow preapical lateral processes and pair of stout medial lateral processes; shaft also with digitiform dorsal preapical process.
External morphology.
Male
holotype
: length
7.2 mm
, male
paratype
: length
6.9 mm
. External characteristics as in generic description.
Male terminalia.
Pygofer, in lateral view (
Fig. 21
), subtriangular, length approximately twice height; dorsal margin slightly convex and declivous posteriorly; ventral margin sinuous at basal half and rectilinear at apical half; setae distributed on apical two-thirds; dorsoapical lobe narrow and curved ventrally, horn-shaped; ventroapical lobe small and rounded. Subgenital plate, in lateral view (
Fig. 22
), with dorsal margin slightly concave; in ventral view (
Fig. 23
), each plate about 4.3 times longer than maximum width; ventral margin with 4–6 macrosetae distributed on apical third. Style, in lateral view (
Fig. 24
), with apophysis slightly broadened medially, apical third curved dorsally, apex slightly bilobed; in dorsal view (
Fig. 25
), apophysis with external lateral margin convex medially. Connective (
Fig. 25
) about half length of style. Aedeagus (
Figs 26, 27
) with shaft strongly flattened dorsoventrally; in caudal view (
Fig. 27
), broad medially; lateral margins slightly crenulated on apical half; with two pairs of lateral short processes, one pair of narrow preapical processes, ventrally directed, and one pair of stout median processes, posteriorly directed; in lateral view, with digitiform dorsal preapical process, flattened laterally; apex flattened laterally and slightly expanded dorsoventrally; preatrium long, about one-third length of shaft.
Female unknown.
Etymology.
The specific epithet,
platypenis
, combines the Greek “platy”, which means flat, with the Latin “penis”, referring to the flat shape of the aedeagus (
Fig. 26
).
Material examined.
Holotype
male
: “
Peru
,
Huanuco
,
5 km
W.\ Tingo Maria, Pte. Monzón\
600m
,
9°19’32”S
76°1’47”W
\
26 Oct 2002
, R.A.Rakitov\ merc. Vapor light, 02-42.2” (
MUSM
).
Paratype
:
1m
: same data as the
holotype
(
DZRJ
).
Remarks.
Nelidina platypenis
sp. nov.
is similar to
N
.
sportula
in the shape of the pygofer apex (
Fig. 21
). However, the new species can be easily distinguished from other species of the genus by the presence of two pairs of processes on the aedeagus (
Fig. 27
).