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<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253" ID-GBIF-Dataset="4e9d0d12-8db8-44e9-b311-94dfee2df7e2" ID-PMC="PMC7759557" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-1004-141" ID-Pensoft-UUID="4BA8DE42D64E584DB64363DA0F142B7D" ID-PubMed="33384569" ID-ZooBank="188943400AE94379AB6DF4104F26323B" ModsDocID="1313-2970-1004-141" checkinTime="1608323521039" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Rai, Stuti &amp; Meshram, Naresh M." docDate="2020" docId="3D9DBADF2939532389414C1E219CF1DA" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 1004: 141-148" docOrigin="ZooKeys 1004" docPubDate="2020-12-17" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253" docTitle="Anagonalia lapnanensis Rai &amp; Meshram 2020, sp. nov." docType="treatment" docUuid="02BF2478-0383-4C98-8C57-1C6EDEEE553A" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="3" id="4BA8DE42D64E584DB64363DA0F142B7D" lastPageNumber="141" masterDocId="4BA8DE42D64E584DB64363DA0F142B7D" masterDocTitle="A new leafhopper species of the genus Anagonalia from India (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae)" masterLastPageNumber="148" masterPageNumber="141" pageNumber="141" updateTime="1668248647300" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
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<mods:title>A new leafhopper species of the genus Anagonalia from India (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Cicadellinae)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Rai, Stuti</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Division of Entomology, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Meshram, Naresh M.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliation>Division of Entomology, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:date>2020</mods:date>
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<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/02BF2478-0383-4C98-8C57-1C6EDEEE553A" authority="Rai &amp; Meshram, 2020" authorityName="Rai &amp; Meshram" authorityYear="2020" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Anagonalia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Anagonalia lapnanensis" order="Hemiptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="141" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="lapnanensis" status="sp. nov.">Anagonalia lapnanensis</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Figs 1-11</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1218" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 12 - 18. Anagonalia lapnanensis (female): 12 dorsal habitus 13 lateral habitus 14 sternite VII 15, 16 first valvula 17, 18 second valvula." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures12-18" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488102" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">, 12-18</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Material examined.</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Holotype</emphasis>
♂, India: Arunachal Pradesh: Lapnan, (
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,
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, 448m), 27.xi.2017, sweep net coll. Stuti (National Pusa Collection).
<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Paratypes</emphasis>
5♀, same data as holotype.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">The new species can be distinguished from other species of the genus in having pygofer process apically sinuate, short styles with indistinct lateral lobe, connective with short stem and strongly divergent arms, strongly bent aedeagal shaft with rectilinear apical part, and dorsal connective elongate and tapered distally.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Description.</paragraph>
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Colour (Figs
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) generally pale green with yellow tinge. Head with three orange spots on crown, anterior spot saddle shaped, lateral pair elliptical, and one median translucent black spot on anterior margin in ventral view. Pronotum with four orange spots approximately equidistant from anterior and posterior margin and to each other. Scutellum medially with an orange spot and yellow mottling at anterior margin. Forewing with prominent orange markings on veins.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Figures 1-11.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Anagonalia lapnanensis</emphasis>
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sp. nov. (male):
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dorsal habitus
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lateral habitus
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face
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head and thorax, dorsal view
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subgenital plates and valve
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sternal abdominal apodemes
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styles and connective
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aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views
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pygofer lateral view.
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Head with anterior margin of crown rounded, anterolateral margin of crown angulate before eyes; crown longer medially than next to eyes, length medially approximately half width across eyes; ocelli on crown, almost equidistant from anterior and posterior margin, nearer to the lateral orange spots than to each other; ridge arising from eye up to ocelli, crown convex between ocelli. Face with frontoclypeus broad and relatively flat, laterofrontal suture extending onto crown; clypellus depressed distally (Fig.
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). Pronotum (Fig.
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) convex, posterior margin highly concave in middle, 1.3
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wider than long and 1.22
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longer than vertex.
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Male second sternal abdominal apodemes (Fig.
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) short, not extending to next sternite.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Male genitalia</emphasis>
. Pygofer (Fig.
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) in lateral view, 1.6
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longer than wide, with dispersed macrosetae on apical half; caudoventral margin with row of stout macrosetae; in ventral view, a long apically sinuate hook like process arising on posteroventral margin. Valve short, fused to pygofer. Subgenital plates (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">5</figureCitation>
) 1.4
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as long as style, elongate, triangular, narrowed gradually towards apex, apex rounded, with a row of macrosetae along sub-lateral margin. Styles (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">7</figureCitation>
) longer than wide, exceeding apex of connective, preapical lobe poorly developed.Connective (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">7</figureCitation>
) Y-shaped with stem 1.5
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longer than arms. Dorsal connective with arms tapered to apex. Aedeagus in dorsal view (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">8</figureCitation>
), wider in the middle and slightly narrow at base and apex, in lateral view (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 111" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figures 1 - 11. Anagonalia lapnanensis sp. nov. (male): 1 dorsal habitus 2 lateral habitus 3 face 4 head and thorax, dorsal view 5 subgenital plates and valve 6 sternal abdominal apodemes 7 styles and connective 8 - 10 aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal, ventral and lateral views 11 pygofer lateral view." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures1-11" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488101" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">10</figureCitation>
) shaft strongly dorsally curved at midlength, of similar width throughout length, gonopore apical.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Figures 12-18.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Anagonalia lapnanensis</emphasis>
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(female):
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dorsal habitus
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lateral habitus
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sternite VII
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first valvula
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second valvula.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Female genitalia</emphasis>
. Seventh sternite (Fig.
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) with posterior margin slightly convex; first valvulae (Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 1218" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figures 12 - 18. Anagonalia lapnanensis (female): 12 dorsal habitus 13 lateral habitus 14 sternite VII 15, 16 first valvula 17, 18 second valvula." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1004.26253.figures12-18" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/488102" pageId="0" pageNumber="141">16</figureCitation>
) slightly bent dorsally and tapered distally to acute apex; in lateral view dorsal irregular sculpturing extending from midlength to apex, subapically with ventral hyaline area extending to midlength. Second valvulae (Fig.
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) with dorsal sclerotised and hyaline area at
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th distance from base to apex, thereafter dorsal margin sharply expanded and slightly tapered to near apex with approximately 26 teeth, thereafter apex triangular with fine teeth on dorsal and ventral margins (Fig.
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Measurements (mm). Male 6.8 long, 1.5 wide across eyes, 1.4 wide across hind margin of pronotum. Female 6.3 long, 1.3 wide across eyes, 1.2 wide across hind margin of pronotum.</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="141" type="etymology">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">This species is named after the place of collection, Lapnan, in Arunachal Pradesh.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="141">Remarks.</paragraph>
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The new species is similar externally to the types of
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Distant from India, a species synonymised with
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Distant from Sri Lanka by
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but, as the types of
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are female, their identity is uncertain (MD Webb, pers. comm.). Based on figures seen of the types of
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(Melanovsky &amp; Webb, in prep.), the specimens described here differ in shape of the male genitalia by the pygofer process being strongly sinuate distally in lateral view, the aedeagal shaft apex being rectilinear in lateral view and the style lacking a preapical lobe. The specimen recorded by
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of
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is figured in insufficient detail to be certain of its identity.
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