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 insignis
(Distant)
Figs 88–96
.
Hussa insignis
Distant, 1918
: 68
.
SYNTYPE
Ψ,
INDIA
[BMNH, not examined].
Scaphoideus insignis
(Distant)
:
Barnett, 1977
: 494
.
Coloration as described by
Distant (1918)
. Head narrower than pronotum. Vertex as long as interocular width.
Male genitalia
: Pygophore longer than high, caudal area slightly angled with two tufts of long setae. Subgenital plate triangular, apically narrowed with an acute apex; oblique row of four stout setae in basal half. Style broad at base with welldeveloped preapical lobe, apophysis long, slender, slightly more than half as long as total length, with short ventral tooth and ventral margin with pustules. Connective with arms approximating, short, fused with paraphyses, with strong basal apodeme, paraphyses fused in basal 0.66, slightly divergent in apical half and pointed apically. Aedeagus Vshaped, as long as dorsal apodeme, strongly laterally compressed, with two subapical toothlike processes on ventral margin and short triangular apical process on dorsal margin, gonopore subapical on ventral margin. Two welldeveloped sclerites arising from tenth segment with curved, acutely pointed, dark pigmented distal process in contact with dorsal apodeme.
Female genitalia
:
Hind
margin of seventh sternum with a median Vshaped notch.
Measurements
: Male
6.40 mm
long and
1.38 mm
wide across eyes. Female
6.60 mm
long,
1.45 mm
wide across eyes.
Material examined
:
INDIA
: Tamil Nadu: 1ɗ, Shambaganur,
30.x.1975
, C. A. Viraktamath (
UAS
); 1ɗ, 1Ψ, Cinchona, Anamalai Hills (
3500 ft
or
1062 m
), iv/
v.1957
, P.S. Nathan Coll. (
IRSNB
).
Remarks
:
S. insignis
is the largest species of the genus occurring in the subcontinent. Its paraphyses are fused for most of their length, a character shared with
S. hirsutus
. However,
S. insignis
has entirely different male genitalia, and its male plates have shorter hairlike setae.