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(
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aj; 2 a; 3 ag; 4 ae; 5 al; 6 ae; 7 cf; 8 bm &amp; bn)
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. Plate extremely long, with apex right-angled dorsally, apex of plate reaching anal tube, apex narrow tubular (
<figureCitation id="137D7EC5FFEBFFE26D0376588C94D10A" box="[363,469,298,324]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="57.[151,255,1711,1735]" captionTargetBox="[198,1389,205,1619]" captionTargetId="figure-63@57.[190,1396,194,1718]" captionTargetPageId="57" captionText="FIGURE 2 ai. Pravistylus species. Plate, part or whole structure. a, P. varicudiscus sp. n.; b, P. mecistoplacus sp. n.; c, P. digitidiscus sp. n.; d, P. tanyoplacus sp. n.; eg, P.eductus(Naudé); hi, P. exquadratus (Naudé)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10126065" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10126065/files/figure.png" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Fig. 2 a</figureCitation>
). Pygofer rectangular, pygofer lobe reduced (
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aj). Female sternite 7 longitudinally rectangular, with short triangular ligula (
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cf).
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC76078C0AD1C1" bold="true" box="[196,331,373,399]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Etymology</emphasis>
. Latin,
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straddling,
<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26EF276078FAFD1C0" box="[666,750,373,398]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">discus¸</emphasis>
disc, i.e. subgenital plate; for the nature of the plate that straddles the pygofer and with its apex reaching the anal tube.
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC76CD8CDED197" bold="true" box="[196,415,447,473]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Male and female</emphasis>
. Ochraceous, male with variable narrow fuscous marking on dorsally on pygofer. Female ochraceous, unmarked. Both sexes sometimes with more distinct fuscous marking on vertex and inner anteapical cell of tegmina (
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bm &amp; bn).
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC755D8C45D207" bold="true" box="[196,260,559,585]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Male</emphasis>
.
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. (n = 25)
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: to tegmina
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: head
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. Ocellar diameter 28.0 µm; ocellocular distance 37.045.9 µm.
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. Pygofer rectangular (
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aj). Pygofer lobe reduced, subapical, broadly merged with pygofer. Plate elongate, more so than in any other species of
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; basal two thirds acutely triangular, basal lateral margin slightly sinuous, sparsely set with fine, short setae; plate 2.42.7 times as long as width across base (excluding length of right-angled apex); apex narrow, tubular, sclerotized, right-angled dorsally, apex in repose reaching as far as anal tube; 67 uniseriate marginal medial macrosetae (
<figureCitation id="137D7EC5FFEBFFE268D97447884FD301" box="[1201,1294,821,847]" captionStart="FIGURE 2" captionStartId="57.[151,255,1711,1735]" captionTargetBox="[198,1389,205,1619]" captionTargetId="figure-63@57.[190,1396,194,1718]" captionTargetPageId="57" captionText="FIGURE 2 ai. Pravistylus species. Plate, part or whole structure. a, P. varicudiscus sp. n.; b, P. mecistoplacus sp. n.; c, P. digitidiscus sp. n.; d, P. tanyoplacus sp. n.; eg, P.eductus(Naudé); hi, P. exquadratus (Naudé)." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10126065" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10126065/files/figure.png" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Fig. 2 a</figureCitation>
). Aedeagus with dorsal apodeme narrow; shaft, ventral view, narrow, parallel-sided; lateral view, wide at base, basal ⅔ uniformly curved dorsad, apical ⅓ deflected somewhat ventrad; gonopore subapical, dorsolaterad (
<figureCitation id="137D7EC5FFEBFFE2694E74F28830D3D4" box="[1318,1393,896,922]" captionStart="FIGURE 3" captionStartId="62.[151,255,1906,1930]" captionTargetBox="[249,1353,187,1831]" captionTargetId="figure-126@62.[233,1361,182,1903]" captionTargetPageId="62" captionText="FIGURE 3 at. Pravistylus species. Aedeagus, laterally. ab, P.lobus sp. n.; c, P. deltoplacussp. n.; d, P. mecophysis sp. n.; e, P. bidentidiscus sp. n.; f, P. brachyplacus sp. n.; g, P. mollidiscus sp. n.; h, P. mecistoplacus sp. n.; ik, P. mutilidiscus sp. n.; l, P. brachyphysis sp. n.; m, P. odontiophallus sp. n.; no, P.eductus (Naudé); pq, P. exquadratus (Naudé); r, P. tanyoplacus sp. n.; s, P. macropygeus sp. n.; t, P. pollediscus sp. n." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10126075" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10126075/files/figure.png" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Figs 3</figureCitation>
ag, 4 ae). Style distal part widely separated from basal medial arm; apophysis acutely triangular, about 6 teeth ventrally (
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al). Connective elongate, stem triangular, about twice as wide as width across arms (
<figureCitation id="137D7EC5FFEBFFE2693D74B888DDD3AA" box="[1365,1436,970,996]" captionStart="FIGURE 6" captionStartId="69.[151,256,1720,1744]" captionTargetBox="[266,1320,198,1706]" captionTargetId="figure-273@69.[264,1329,194,1706]" captionTargetPageId="69" captionText="FIGURE 6 aai. Pravistylus species. Connective, dorsally or ventrally and laterally. a, P. lobus sp. n., ventral; b, P. deltoplacus sp. n., dorsal; c, P. mecophysis sp. n., dorsal; d, P. bidentidiscus sp. n., dorsal; e, P. brachyplacus sp. n., dorsal; f, P. mollidiscus sp. n., dorsal; g, P. mecistoplacus sp. n., dorsal; h, P. mutilidiscus sp. n., dorsal; i, P. brachyphysis sp. n., ventral; j, P. odontiophallus sp. n., dorsal; k, P. odontiophallus sp. n., ventral; l, P.eductus(Naudé), dorsal; m, P. eductus (Naudé), lateral; no, P. exquadratus (Naudé), dorsal; p, P. exquadratus (Naudé), lateral; q, P. tanyoplacus sp. n., dorsal; r, P. macropygeus sp. n., dorsal; su, P. pollediscus sp. n., dorsal; v, P. scolopygeus sp. n., dorsal; w, P. dentidiscus sp. n., dorsal; x, P. micropygeus sp. n., dorsal; y, P. trunculidiscus sp. n., dorsal; z, P. longitrunculus sp. n., dorsal; aa, P. digitidiscus sp. n., dorsal; ab, P. serratus sp. n., dorsal; ac, P. indistinctidiscus sp. n., dorsal; ad, P. odontopygeus sp. n., dorsal; ae, P. varicudiscus sp. n., ventral; af, P. pelorophallus sp. n., ventral; ag, P. pelorophallus sp. n., lateral; ah, P. scolophallus sp. n., ventral; ai, P. caenophallus sp. n., ventral." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10126091" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/10126091/files/figure.png" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
ae).
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC73678C5ED461" bold="true" box="[196,287,1045,1071]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Female</emphasis>
.
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. (n = 13)
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: to tegmina
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. Ocellar diameter 28.0 µm; ocellocular distance 36.548.6 µm.
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC73F78C7BD4D1" bold="true" box="[196,314,1157,1183]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Genitalia</emphasis>
. Sternite 7 longitudinally rectangular, short triangular ligula apically. Greatest medial length 1.21.3 times longer the greatest width (
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cf).
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<paragraph id="8BF96240FFEBFFE26CAC73BD8ECAD57A" blockId="48.[151,1437,261,1706]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC73BD8C84D4A7" bold="true" box="[196,453,1231,1257]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Material examined</emphasis>
.
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, near environmental education center,
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, DVac moribund grass
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, same data as holotype (
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.
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<subSubSection id="C35C31CBFFEBFFE26CAC724D8F92D6E4" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" type="discussion">
<paragraph id="8BF96240FFEBFFE26CAC724D8F92D6E4" blockId="48.[151,1437,261,1706]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">
<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26CAC724D8C79D517" bold="true" box="[196,312,1343,1369]" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Remarks</emphasis>
.
<taxonomicName id="4C4619C3FFEBFFE26D2172328F30D517" authorityName="Stiller" authorityYear="2010" box="[329,625,1344,1369]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadellidae" genus="Pravistylus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="48" pageNumber="49" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="varicudiscus">
<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26D2172328F30D517" box="[329,625,1344,1369]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Pravistylus varicudiscus</emphasis>
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is characterized by the very long plate with the apical third that is right-angled dorsally. The plate of this species reaches the apex of the pygofer lobe and bears macrosetae (
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aj). Another species with a similar configuration is
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26F7572F98E87D5EA" box="[797,966,1419,1444]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. digitidiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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), but with the plate distinctly shorter, usually without macrosetae, only a short section of the apex is curved or bent dorsally, or sometimes it is right-angled (
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). In undissected specimens of
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26F7D72A78EF8D5A0" box="[789,953,1493,1518]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. digitidiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the apex of the plate is inserted ventrally between margins of the pygofer lobe. The female sternite 7 of
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26FA6728989D2D65A" box="[974,1171,1531,1556]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. varicudiscus</emphasis>
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is characteristically longitudinally rectangular, with a short triangular ligula (
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cf), whereas in all other species of
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26970715288DDD677" box="[1304,1436,1568,1593]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Pravistylus</emphasis>
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the sternite is usually transversely rectangular with a long ligula, or sometimes square. There is a striking similarity in the plate of
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26DDE71198F27D6CA" box="[438,614,1643,1668]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">P. varicudiscus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and a new species of
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<emphasis id="B932BE52FFEBFFE26F0D71198E87D6CA" box="[869,966,1643,1668]" italics="true" pageId="48" pageNumber="49">Vilargus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, although the aedeagus and sternite 7 of the female of these two species differs markedly.
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