Review of the Monobazus-group leafhopper genera (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of five new genera and twenty-eight new species Author VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. Author WEBB, M. D. Author YESHWANTH, H. M. text Zootaxa 2025 2025-01-10 5567 1 1 105 https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5567.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5567.1.1 1175-5334 14703735 AF6254F6-CE26-41FE-BB85-A3FFD16FAA39 Monobazus confuscus (Pruthi) comb. nov. Figs 4A–D , 9G , 33A–J Paralimnus confuscus Pruthi 1936: 129–130 , pl. IX, fig. 11, 11a, text fig. 140; Rao, 1969: 187–188 . Fig. 1 . Diagnosis . Coloration as in M. fletcheri (Distant) . Male pygofer with posterodorsal angle produced into short angular process, aedeagus slightly curved anteriorly with a ventral pair of processes arising at midlength of the shaft and exceeding the shaft. Male genitalia similar to those in M. rubrostriatus sp. nov. (see below), but the pygofer process is short and triangular in M. confuscus whereas it is longer and spine-like in the latter. Description . Coloration as described by Pruthi (1936) and similar to that in M. fletcheri (Distant) , but paler. Head broader than pronotum. Crown 0.6× as long as interocular distance. Pronotum about twice as wide as long medially. Male genitalia . Pygofer triangular, about as long as in lateral view and with triangular lobe-like process at posterodorsal angle. Aedeagus with well-developed dorsal apodeme and preatrium, shaft dorsally directed, of uniform width, ventral process arising at midlength and directed dorsally, each fork of the process distally narrowed and far exceeding shaft. Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂ , Guvvaluchervu ( 500ft ), foot of Palkonda Hills, H.S . Pruthi ( ZSI ) ; Other material. Andhra Pradesh , 3♂ , 1♀ Guvvaluchervu , 24.x.2008 , S. Murthy , T. Nagaraj , Kalleshwaraswamy , light trap ; Karnataka : 1 ♂ , Bangalore , 916m , 18.x.1982 , H.V.A. Murthy ; ( UASB ) . Remarks .This species was described from a single specimen ( holotype )with the following data:“Guvvaluchervu ( 500ft. ), foot of Palkonda Hills, South India (Coll. H.S. Pruthi). In the Indian Museum (No. 5423/ H7)”. Although, in the original description, Pruthi (1936) listed only one specimen he figured both a male (genitalia) and female (habitus). The holotype male has the apical part of the abdomen missing. The identity of this species is therefore, based on specimens collected from the type locality that match the holotype externally rather than the figured genitalia which may be unreliably associated. The specimens identified by Rao (1969) as M. confuscus include a figure of the female pregenital sternite that matches M. dissimilis (male not figured by Rao or available for the current study). The specimens from Guvvaluchervu (type locality) and Bangalore are smaller ( 3.3–3.4 mm long) compared to the measurements given by Pruthi (1936: 130) for the holotype as 4.5 mm .