Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina
Author
Dellapé, Gimena
text
Zootaxa
2015
3915
4
521
539
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.4
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1175-5326
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Teletusa limpida
(Signoret 1855)
Diagnosis.
General coloration dark brown to black with yellow markings on abdominal sterna, laterotergites, tergum VII, VIII and pygofer; body with dense pubescence, mainly on scutellum and lower portion of clypeus; fore- and hindwings almost colourless; clypeus forms an approximately right angle with longitudinal axis of body; pronotum with parallel margins; abdomen distinctly broad and short. [
Note.
This species is a known Batesian mimic of megachilid bees (
Mejdalani
et al.
2002
)].
Female terminalia.
Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (
Fig. 20
), longer than tall, with lateral margins parallel, lateroposterior margins slightly rounded, and posterior margin sinuate on each side of median produced rounded lobe; surface with numerous scattered, long and fine microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, short, slightly produced posteriorly; surface with long and fine microsetae. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes on ventral region. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, slightly broadened beyond basal curvature and then narrowing gradually toward apex; dorsal and ventral sculptured area formed by linear processes; apex rounded (
Fig. 40
), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, distinctly broadened beyond basal curvature and then narrowing gradually toward apex; dorsal margin of blade bearing 65 to 68 noncontiguous teeth, mostly quadrangular, with denticles on dorsal margin (
Fig. 60
); size of teeth increases from proximal portion to broad region, and then decreases towards apex; ducts extending toward apical blade portion but not reaching to teeth; apex obtuse (
Fig. 80
), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; without preapical ventral prominence. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with long and thin setae on ventral margin and apex; apex narrowly rounded.
Material examined.
ARGENTINA
. Misiones
: Puerto Bemberg,
1♂
,
III/1945
, Hayward, Willink, R. Golbach (
IMLA
); Parque Nacional Iguazú,
9♂
3♀, XI-XII/2008, water trap, Zamudio & Colleselli Gomez de Olivera; Eldorado, Cueva Miní,
26°22,29´S
54°39,65´W
,
5♂
,
14/II/2012
, hand collection, G. Dellapé (
MLP
).
Distribution.
Colombia
,
Ecuador
,
Peru
,
Bolivia
,
Brazil
,
Paraguay
and
Argentina
: Misiones (
Young 1968
;
Freytag & Sharkey 2002
;
Mejdalani
et al.
2002
;
Azevedo-Filho & Carvalho 2006
;
Paradell
et al.
2012
).