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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Phera carbonaria
(Melichar 1924)
Diagnosis.
Crown and pronotum brownish, with longitudinal yellow line; proepimeron with lower marginal area depressed; anal veins fused along considerable distance.
Male
: aedeagus symmetrical, with pair of widely divergent and curved ventral processes.
Female terminalia.
Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (
Fig. 16
), with lateral margins slightly convergent posteriorly, lateroposterior margins obtuse, and posterior margin with shallow elongated median emargination; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and a few macrosetae on posterior third of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes on ventral region and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scalelike processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute (
Fig. 36
), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 56 to 60 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth square-shaped, with denticles on posterior and dorsal margins (
Fig. 56
); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded (
Fig. 76
), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; slight preapical ventral prominence. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with small spiniform processes on ventral margin; apex rounded.
Material examined.
ARGENTINA
. Misiones
:
3♂
, without other data; Dep. Concepción, Santa María,
1♂
,
X/1946
, M.J. Viana (
MACN
); Aristóbulo del Valle, 1♀,
2/XII/1960
, A. Ogloblin; Iguazú,
3♂
1♀,
10/XI/1973
, Tonsic & Willink;
1♂
,
4/IV/1910
, Jörgensen;
1♂
,
31/VIII/1910
, Jörgensen; Parque Provincial Urugua-i,
1♂
,
13/ XII/1957
; San Javier,
1♂
,
16/XII/1957
, Biraben; Iguazú,
1♂
,
XI/1944
, Biraben; Route
211 km
36,
26
°55´55´´S
54°43´4´´W
, 1♀,
5/I/2008
, light trap, C.H. Dietrich (
MLP
); Iguazú,
2♂
,
10/XI/1973
, Tonsic & Willink; Parque Nacional Iguazú,
1♂
1♀,
10/XI/1973
, Tonsic & Willink; Dos de Mayo,
1♂
,
18/XI/1973
, Escobar & Claps (
IMLA
).
Distribution.
Brazil
,
Paraguay
(
Young 1968
) and
Argentina
: Misiones (
Paradell
et al.
2012
).