A revision of the deltocephaline leafhopper genus Scaphoideus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Indian subcontinent
Author
Viraktamath, C. A.
Author
Mohan, G. S.
text
Zootaxa
2004
578
1
48
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.169102
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169102
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Scaphoideus bicoloratus
sp. nov.
Figs 20–27
.
Head with an anterior marginal transverse band medially connected with a similar band on face chocolate brown, two transverse spots behind it one on either side of median line hyaline, a “flying falcon” shaped transverse stripe with a median interruption reddish brown, a spot on hind margin on either side of median line chocolate brown. Face with transverse chocolate brown stripes on frontoclypeus. Gena, clypellus, lorum with chocolate brown patches against ochraceous background. Pronotum chocolate brown with circular hyaline spots and anterior marginal ochraceous area interrupted by chocolate brown. Scutellum with chocolate brown and ochraceous areas. Front wing coloration as in
Fig. 20
. Male pygophore and female ovipositor with chocolate brown patches caudally. Legs ochraceous with middle and hind tibiae spotted with chocolate brown, apex of hind tibia, apical 0.33 of hind basitarsus and basal 0.75 of second tarsomere chocolate brown.
Head bluntly angular in front, as wide as pronotum. Vertex as long as interocular width.
Male genitalia
: Pygophore longer than high, with two caudal tufts of long setae. Subgenital plate broad basally, abruptly narrowed at 0.33, then of uniform width, 2.5 times as long as basal width, with 4 long setae. Style broad basally, preapical lobe welldeveloped, apophysis rugulose, apex bidentate. Connective with stem longer than arm, each paraphyses slender, needlelike, crossing over its counterpart at distal 0.25 length. Aedeagus Vshaped, dorsal apodeme welldeveloped, shaft cylindrical, distal apex curved posteriorly, with a subapical pair of appendages directed ventrocaudlly. Each appendage slightly broadened subapically with crenulated margin, gonopore subapical on caudal margin.
FIGURES 28–45.
Species of
Scaphoideus
. 28–38.
S. bifidus
sp. nov.
28. Head and thorax; 29, Face; 30, Head and thorax, profile; 31. Male pygophore; 32. Subgenital plate; 33. Style; 34. Connective and paraphyses; 35. Same, lateral view; 36. Aedeagus and dorsal connective; 37. Same, caudal view; 38. Female seventh sternum. 39–45.
S. coloratus
Rao.
39. Male pygophore; 40. Subgenital plate; 41, Style; 42. Connective and paraphyses, lateral view; 43. Same, dorsal view; 44. Aedeagus and dorsal connective; 45. Same, caudal view. Scale line indicates 0.1 mm.
Female genitalia
: Seventh sternum about as long as wide, caudal margin medially produced with a median notch.
Measurements
: Male 4.0–
4.1 mm
long,
1.02 mm
wide across eyes. Female
4.5 mm
long and
1.20 mm
wide across eyes.
Material examined
:
INDIA
:
Holotype
ɗ, Karnataka: Nagarhole,
1.ii.1983
, Shashidhar Coll. (
UAS
).
Paratypes
: 2 Ψ, data as
holotype
; 1 ɗ,
INDIA
: Karnataka: 12 Km NE Sandur,
12.ix.1983
, Shashidhar Coll. (
BMNH
,
NPC
,
UAS
).
Remarks
:
S. bicolorata
can be recognised by its coloration. It shares the needlelike paraphyses with
S. russus
,
but it has relatively stouter paraphyses that cross over one another.