Two new species of the genus Igerna (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae) from India
Author
Meshram, Naresh M.
Author
Chandra Bose, N. S.
Author
Parveen, Shama
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
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241
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.2.6
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Igerna priyankae
Viraktamath
Igerna priyankae
Viraktamath 2011
: 72
Paratype
Nepal
(examined)
Material examined.
Paratype
♂
INDIA
: Himachal: Kasauli,
23.vii.1962
, S.S. Singh Coll.;
Nepal
: Kathmandu: Godawan Thanks,
5.ix.1978
, V. K. Thapa Coll. (
NPC
).
Remarks.
This species was described by
Viraktamath (2011)
, and its male genitalia exhibit minor variation in the ventral margin of the aedeagal shaft which is either straight as in the
holotype
(Fig. 348,
Viraktamath, 2011
) or sinuate as in the
paratype
(
Figs 43–44
). These seem to be intraspecific variation.
In the key to the species of
Igerna
in the Oriental region by
Viraktamath (2011)
, couplet 12 can be modified as follows to include the two new species currently described herein along with the other two species from
China
viz.,
Igerna channa
Viraktamath,
et al
. (2012)
and
Igerna tenuicula
Li,
et al
. (2012)
.
12. Anal collar process forked or hook shaped................................................................. 13 - Anal collar process sea-horse shaped..................................................... ..
kolasibensis
sp.
nov.
13. Anal collar process hook shaped......................................................
channa
Viraktamath
,
et al
. - Anal collar process forked.............................................................................. 14 14. Anal collar process bifurcate to two branches, upper branch with spine in middle and tip twisted ventrally, lower branch
directed posteriorly, apically bent dorsally; aedeagus with pair of long apical processes............... ..
tenuicula
Li
,
et al
. - Anal collar process bifurcated but without any spines on branches; aedeagus with or without single apical process........15 15. Aedeagus caudal margin with process near apex; connective posterior margin bilobed.............
priyankae
Viraktamath
- Aedeagus without process on caudal margin near apex; connective posterior margin with single lobes...
shillongensis
sp. nov.