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
1
1
45
journal article
31087
10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.1
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1175-5326
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Penthimia sahyadrica
sp. nov.
Figs 33–34
, 52, 164–171.
Head, pronotum and scutellum shiny black. Scutellum touched with two lateral spots and one apical spot, orangebrown. Forewings black with orange-brown spots.
Male genitalia.
Pygofer with rounded caudal margin, ventral area with short setae. Subgenital plate angularly produced on lateral margin near base with caudal angle rounded, surface with short hairlike setae. Style linear with well developed preapical lobe, apical apophysis short, thumblike. Connective with arms 0.33 as long as stem. Aedeagus simple, dorsal apodeme long, well developed, preatrium reduced, shaft curved dorsoanteriorly and slightly narrowed caudally, with large gonopore on ventral margin.
Length.
Male:
4.1–4.3mm
. Female: 4.0 mm.
Material
examined.
INDIA
:
Karnataka
:
Holotype
♂
,
Dharmasthala
,
23. xi. 1984
,
S. Viraktamath
(
UASB
)
. Paratypes: 1♀, data as in holotype; 1♂, Agumbe,
5.i.1984
, S. Viraktamath (UASB);
Kerala
:
1♂
,
Thekkady
,
27.iii.1977
,
S. Viraktamath
(
UASB
)
.
Etymology.
The species name refers to the mountain range where it has been collected namely Sahyadri range or
Western
Ghats.
Remarks
. This species has male genitalia similar to those of
P. attenuata
and
P. neoattenuata
, however the aedeagus in the new species lacks the flanges present in
P. attenuata
and dorsal keel in
P. neoattenuata
.