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adequately described and illustrated this species. The following additional features are noted. Male pygofer with dorsal marginal sclerotized process distally lobe-like with anterior margin of lobe crenulated (
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). Female similar to male with ovipositor projecting much beyond pygofer. Sternite VII and first and second pair of valvulae as described in generic description.
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; 2♂, Hunsur,
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, C. A. Viraktamath; 2♂, Banerghatta,
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,C. A. Viraktamath; 1♂, 1♀, Chickballapur,
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, C. A.
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, C. A. Viraktamath.
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(
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).
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<emphasis id="CDA6EAB2FFA07A08FF18F89FFE84AC51" bold="true" box="[199,381,1836,1861]" pageId="2" pageNumber="273">Measurements.</emphasis>
Male
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long,
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wide across eyes and 1.82.0 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Female
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long, 2.0
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wide across eyes and
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wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.
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<emphasis id="CDA6EAB2FFA07A08FF18F82BFEC2ACA5" bold="true" box="[199,315,1944,1969]" pageId="2" pageNumber="273">Remarks.</emphasis>
Identification of this species is based on the diagrams and description of the species given by
<bibRefCitation id="9B434B51FFA07A08FF48F80FFEBBACC0" author="Nielson" box="[151,322,1980,2005]" pageId="2" pageNumber="273" refString="Nielson, M. W. (1982) A revision of the subfamily Coelidiinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) IV. Tribe Coelidiini. Pacific Insects Monograph, 38, 1 - 318." type="journal article" year="1982">Nielson (1982)</bibRefCitation>
. It was earlier known only from Nilgiri Hills (
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) and has now been recorded from Shevroy Hills (
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), Bengaluru, Hunsur, Chikballapur, Mudigere (
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) and Mariyur (
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). There is considerable colour variation in the specimens collected. Some paler specimens (teneral?) (
<figureCitation id="67E92A25FFAA7A02FB0BFF0FFAC7ABC0" box="[1236,1342,188,213]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 17" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[222,1363,204,1864]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[208,1373,193,1876]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 17. Species of Mahellus. 1 2. Male of M. cardoni sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 3 5. Male of M. distanti, dorsal (3 &amp; 5) and lateral (4) view; 6 7. Female of M. distanti, dorsal and lateral view; 8 9. Male of M. ungulatus sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 10 17 faces of species of Mahellus: 10. M. cardoni; 11 16. M. distanti, variation in colour; 17. M. ungulatus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/569766/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="279">Figs 3, 4</figureCitation>
) have a submarginal reddish stripe along the frontoclypeus (
<figureCitation id="67E92A25FFAA7A02FD03FF6CFCA3ABEC" box="[732,858,223,248]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 17" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[222,1363,204,1864]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[208,1373,193,1876]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 17. Species of Mahellus. 1 2. Male of M. cardoni sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 3 5. Male of M. distanti, dorsal (3 &amp; 5) and lateral (4) view; 6 7. Female of M. distanti, dorsal and lateral view; 8 9. Male of M. ungulatus sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 10 17 faces of species of Mahellus: 10. M. cardoni; 11 16. M. distanti, variation in colour; 17. M. ungulatus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/569766/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="279">Figs 14, 15</figureCitation>
) compared to well sclerotized specimens which are often darker with sometimes basal triangles of the mesoscutum dark brown (
<figureCitation id="67E92A25FFAA7A02FBFCFEB7FB68AA09" box="[1059,1169,260,285]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 17" captionStartId="3.[151,264,1911,1934]" captionTargetBox="[222,1363,204,1864]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[208,1373,193,1876]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 17. Species of Mahellus. 1 2. Male of M. cardoni sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 3 5. Male of M. distanti, dorsal (3 &amp; 5) and lateral (4) view; 6 7. Female of M. distanti, dorsal and lateral view; 8 9. Male of M. ungulatus sp. nov., dorsal and lateral view; 10 17 faces of species of Mahellus: 10. M. cardoni; 11 16. M. distanti, variation in colour; 17. M. ungulatus." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/569766/files/figure.png" pageId="8" pageNumber="279">Figs 5, 6</figureCitation>
). This species is quite different from the remaining three species of the genus in having a more robust aedeagal shaft and the processes adpressed to the shaft compared to more slender shaft in the remaining species with the processes oriented away from the shaft.
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