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 varna
sp. nov.
Figs 206–212
.
Vertex yellow with brown angular submarginal band, a median “flying falcon” shaped spot with a median yellow marking. Face chocolatebrown, frontoclypeus laterally yellow. Pronotum, scutellum, basal 0.33 of front wings chocolate brown with dispersed hyaline or white markings (similar to
bicoloratus
,
Fig. 20
), posterior margin of this patch of front wing forming a transverse line. One spot behind eye on pronotum, two pairs of lateral marginal spots to scutellum and apex white. Oblique veins on costa of front wing, veins of apical cells, 0.75 of median and inner cell transparent dark fuscous. Pleura chocolate brown except for white spot on meso and metapleura.
Head wider than pronotum, conically produced in front. Vertex as long medially as wide between eyes, a median faint ridge separating lateral depressed compartments.
Male genitalia
: Caudal 0.25 of pygophore dark brown, caudally rounded, ventral margin convex. Subgenital plate slender, elongate, 3.6 times longer than greatest width near base, five stout setae in an oblique row near basal 0.25. Style with welldeveloped preapical lobe, apophysis short with bifid apex. Connective with short arms and long stem; paraphyses slender, longer than connective, apically acuminate. Aedeagus boatshaped, connected to connective by membranous structure, shaft strongly compressed, bladelike, apex attenuated, strongly ventrally curved, dorsal apodeme welldeveloped, gonopore at 0.66 length on ventral margin.
Measurements
: Male
3.90–4.40 mm
long,
1.05–1.12 mm
wide across eyes.
Material examined
:
MYANMAR
:
holotype
ɗ, Bhamo,
Birmania
, Fea,
ix.1885
, 169 (the number on a separate blue coloured label) (
MCSG
).
Paratype
: 1ɗ, data as
holotype
but without the number label and collected
vi.1885
;
1 specimen
(sex? abdomen missing) same data but collected on
vi.1986
(
MCSG
).
FIGURES 206–217.
Species of
Scaphiodeus
. 206–212.
S. varna
sp. nov.
206. Male pygophore; 207. Subgenital plate; 208. Style; 209. Apophysis of style; 210. Connective and paraphyses; 211. Aedeagus, lateral view; 212. Same, caudal view. 213–217.
S. vaticus
sp. nov.
213. Male paraphysis lateral view; 214. Connective and paraphyses, dorsal view; 215. Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; 216. Same, caudal view; 217. Style. Scale line indicates 0.1 mm.
Remarks
: Both
S. varna
and
S. bicolorata
sp. nov.
resemble each other externally and have very distinctive coloration. They also share the compressed aedeagus and the slender elongate needlelike paraphyses.
S. varna
does not bear any process on the aedeagal shaft whereas
bicolorata
has a pair of slender, elongate, apical processes.