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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1C81FE92629EFEA8" bold="true" box="[238,447,333,360]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Afromelampsalta</emphasis>
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. (
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of Good Hope,
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is deposited in the Zoological Museum, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (
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) and can be viewed on-line at http://zoomus.lviv.ua/GERMAR/ZM3844web.htm).
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The genus is represented currently by
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1F38FDDD60D1FDDB" box="[855,1008,513,540]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. leucoptera</emphasis>
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)
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,
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<taxonomicName id="4C4E4D6DFFBAFFEF1945FDDD621EFD80" ID-CoL="8JNK6" authority="(Walker, 1850)" authorityName="Sanborn &amp; Villet" authorityYear="2020" baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Cicadidae" genus="Afromelampsalta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="cadisia" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1945FDDD66BDFDDB" box="[1322,1436,513,540]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. cadisia</emphasis>
(
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,
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1DD5FDF9616EFDFF" box="[442,591,549,576]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. aethiopica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBAFFEF1E31FDFA61D9FD80" author="Distant, W. L." box="[606,760,549,576]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" pagination="265 - 281" refId="ref7298" refString="Distant, W. L. (1905) Rhynchotal notes XXXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7) 16, 265 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442862" type="journal article" year="1905">Distant, 1905</bibRefCitation>
)
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2095787FFBAFFEF1F68FDF9604CFD80" box="[775,877,550,576]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" rank="species">n. comb.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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,
<taxonomicName id="4C4E4D6DFFBAFFEF1F14FDF96781FD80" ID-CoL="8JNK8" authority="(Walker, 1852)" authorityName="Sanborn &amp; Villet" authorityYear="2020" baseAuthorityName="Walker" baseAuthorityYear="1852" box="[891,1184,549,576]" class="Insecta" family="Cicadidae" genus="Afromelampsalta" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" order="Hemiptera" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="limitata" status="comb. nov.">
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1F14FDF960D0FDFF" box="[891,1009,549,576]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. limitata</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBAFFEF186FFDFA67B9FD80" author="Walker, F." box="[1024,1176,549,576]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" pagination="909 - 1188" refId="ref9346" refString="Walker, F. (1852) List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV. British Museum Trustees, London, ix + 281 pp. [pp. i-ix, 909 - 1188, pls. I-VIII] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 1584" type="book chapter" year="1852">Walker, 1852</bibRefCitation>
)
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF18C8FDF9662CFD80" bold="true" box="[1191,1293,550,576]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2095787FFBAFFEF18C8FDF9662CFD80" box="[1191,1293,550,576]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" rank="species">n. comb.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
,
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1974FDF963EEFDA3" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. luteofasciata</emphasis>
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2095787FFBAFFEF1CB7FD956259FDA4" box="[216,376,586,612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" rank="species">n. gen., n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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, and
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1DD6FD95610DFDA3" box="[441,556,586,612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. mimica</emphasis>
(Distant, 1907)
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2095787FFBAFFEF1E86FD956070FDA4" box="[745,849,586,612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" rank="species">n. comb.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
We include
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1F8EFD956759FDA3" box="[993,1144,585,612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. aethiopica</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBAFFEF18E7FD966605FDA4" author="Distant, W. L." box="[1160,1316,585,612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" pagination="265 - 281" refId="ref7298" refString="Distant, W. L. (1905) Rhynchotal notes XXXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7) 16, 265 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442862" type="journal article" year="1905">Distant, 1905</bibRefCitation>
)
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="A2095787FFBAFFEF195AFD9566BDFDA4" box="[1333,1436,586,612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" rank="species">n. comb.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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even though it branches off before the clade containing
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1F68FDB16072FD47" box="[775,851,622,647]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Buyisa</emphasis>
Distant, 1907
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and the remaining species that we are reassigning to
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1D54FD4E62DAFD6B" box="[315,507,657,683]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Afromelampsalta</emphasis>
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(
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Marshall
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1EA2FD4D61DFFD6B" box="[717,766,657,683]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">et al</emphasis>
. 2015a
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). Without specimens available for examination, it is impossible for us to erect a new genus for the taxon but the species does not belong in
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1817FD6A662BFD0F" box="[1144,1290,693,719]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Melampsalta</emphasis>
(
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Marshall
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. 2015a
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)
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.
</paragraph>
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The varieties
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1D0FFD2162DCFCD7" box="[352,509,765,791]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">M. leucoptera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
var.
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1E5BFD216163FCD7" box="[564,578,766,791]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">a</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1EA6FD216047FCD7" box="[713,870,765,791]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">M. leucoptera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
var.
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1FF2FD22608AFCD7" box="[925,939,765,791]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">b</emphasis>
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are unavailable following Article 11.9.1, where a name must include at least two letters (ICZN 1999).
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separated the two varieties based on the degree of infuscation in the fore wing. We consider these differences to be part of the natural variability in the infuscation patterns of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1DF8FCB5610CFC43" box="[407,557,873,900]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. leucoptera</emphasis>
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so that these proposed varieties would be considered synonyms of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF19EBFCB5622EFC67" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">A. leucoptera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1D79FC51625DFC68" bold="true" box="[278,380,910,936]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">
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</emphasis>
if they were available.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3546565FFBAFFEF1CA8FC6D6094FBD3" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BF136EEFFBAFFEF1CA8FC6D6094FBD3" blockId="2.[151,1437,405,2016]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1CA8FC6D626FFC0C" bold="true" box="[199,334,946,972]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Etymology.</emphasis>
The name is a combination
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1EFDFC6D61EDFC0C" box="[658,716,946,972]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Afro-</emphasis>
for the region where the genus is distributed and
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF196BFC6E66BDFC0B" box="[1284,1436,945,971]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">
-
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</emphasis>
for the previous generic assignment for the majority of species, which was originally derived from the Greek μέλας (black) and ψαλτής (a chanter) (
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). The genus is feminine.
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3546565FFBAFFEE1CA8FBC2616DFE37" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="534" pageId="2" pageNumber="533" type="description">
<paragraph id="8BF136EEFFBAFFEE1CA8FBC2606DFEA7" blockId="2.[151,1437,405,2016]" lastBlockId="3.[151,1437,153,1331]" lastPageId="3" lastPageNumber="534" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1CA8FBC26278FBF8" bold="true" box="[199,345,1053,1080]" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">Description.</emphasis>
Small to medium-sized cicada (
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body length). Head about as wide as mesonotum, eyes wider than anterior pronotal collar but not as wide as pronotal collar lateral angle, vertex at area of ocelli not as long as frons, supra-antennal plate forming anterior indentation with junction to postclypeus, postclypeus slightly wider than supra-antennal plate, postclypeus inflated, semicircular when viewed from dorsal side, without central sulcus, rostrum reaching coxae or trochanters of middle legs. Pronotum shorter than mesonotum, trapezoidal with anterior margin narrower than lateral margins of pronotal collar, lateral angles of pronotal collar expanded and lobate, lateral part of pronotal collar bent ventrally, mesonotum not covering dorsal metanotum, metanotum extends laterally beyond wing groove, cruciform elevation smoothly arched posteriorly. Fore wings and hind wing hyaline, except fore wings of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBAFFEF1D56FAE26290FA97" box="[313,433,1341,1367]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="533">leucoptera</emphasis>
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which are bronzed and infuscated along veins, basal cell longer than broad, fore wings and hind wing with eight and six apical cells respectively, fore wing apical cell 2 beyond abdomen apex when fore wing at rest, fore wing apical and ulnar cells about the same length, fore wings more than twice as long as broad. Fore wing cubitus anterior straight, length of the fused median and cubitus anterior veins extending from the arculus shorter than length of basal cell, radius anterior and radius posterior arise from nearly the same point of node, radial crossvein short causing radius anterior 2 and radius posterior to approach one another before diverging to ambient vein, radiomedial crossvein curved. Fore femora with three prominent, parallel, angled spines, primary spine longest, secondary spine intermediate in length, and tertiary spine shortest with a base about as broad as spine is long and small apical spine extending from base of tertiary spine, tarsi three-segmented, meracanthi tapering to a point, barely extending over anterior or not reaching operculum, female meracanthi of similar shape to conspecific male, extending almost to anterior margin of female operculum. Male opercula with rounded or partially straight posterior margin, covering tympanal cavity extending to sternite II or III, lateral margin reflexed to base of timbal, opercula separated along midline, female operculum variably developed, even within a species, with lateral and posterior margins weakly to moderately curved, extending medially only half way to medial base of meracanthus. Abdomen longer than distance between apex of head and posterior of cruciform elevation, expanding laterally to tergite 4 where abdomen begins narrowing posteriorly to genitalia, lateral margins straight, male sternites partly translucent, epipleurites folded toward dorsal surface to varying degrees producing a slight depression on lateral margins of the male abdomen but not a deep channel. Timbal cover absent, timbal completely exposed, not extending below wing bases, tympana concealed by opercula. Male sternite VIII U-shaped when viewed from posterior. Female sternite VII with weakly conven lateroposterior margin either side of a wide, deep medial notch. Pygofer distal shoulder not developed, dorsal beak present, triangular or arching, pygofer upper lobe small and undeveloped, pygofer basal lobe elongated, flattened, adpressed to pygofer, uncus lobe short, tapering distally, claspers well developed, male aedeagus a simple tubular structure restrained by claspers. Female abdominal segment 9 with small dorsal beak present (e.g.
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1D48FEF6629FFE83" box="[295,446,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">A. leucoptera</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1DAAFEF6610AFE83" bold="true" box="[453,555,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">
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</emphasis>
) or absent (e.g.
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1E8FFEF66070FE83" box="[736,849,297,323]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">A. mimica</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1F37FEF6609FFE83" bold="true" box="[856,958,297,323]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">
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</emphasis>
) and semicircular posterior margin around anal styles, ovipositor sheath extends well beyond anal styles.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8BF136EEFFBBFFEE1CA8FEAE60DCFE4B" blockId="3.[151,1437,153,1331]" box="[199,1021,369,396]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">
Spermatids were described by
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Chawanji
<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1EFEFEAD61E3FE4B" box="[657,706,369,395]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">et al</emphasis>
. (2006)
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; eggs are unknown.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1CA8FE4A62E4FE6F" bold="true" box="[199,453,404,431]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Measurements (mm).</emphasis>
Length of body: 12.021.0; length of fore wing: 13.018.5; width of fore wing: 5.98.5; length of head: 1.02.1; width of head including eyes: 4.14.7; width of pronotum including suprahumeral plates: 4.75.2; width of mesonotum: 4.05.0.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection id="C3546565FFBBFFEE1CA8FDDF6715FB07" pageId="3" pageNumber="534" type="diagnosis">
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1CA8FDDF6263FDDB" bold="true" box="[199,322,512,539]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
The new genus differs from
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1EE2FDDE603EFDDB" box="[653,799,513,539]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
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in the three large spines and a small apical spine on the fore femora rather than the two large spines and a small apical spines found in
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE184FFDFA6793FDFF" box="[1056,1202,549,575]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
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, the fore wing cubitus anterior is straight rather than arching, and the postclypeus is about as wide as the supra-antennal plate rather than twice as wide as the supra-antennal plate as described by
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as characteristic for
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE196CFDB266B4FD47" box="[1283,1429,621,647]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
.
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described the length of the fused median and cubitus anterior veins extending from the arculus as being greater than the length of the basal cell in
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1EDFFD6A6063FD0F" box="[688,834,693,719]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
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but this length is shorter in the new genus. The radius anterior and radius posterior arise from nearly the same point of the node in the new species similar to species of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1CF8FD216221FCD7" box="[151,256,766,791]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Tettigetta</emphasis>
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but arise from distinctly separate points of the node in
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1854FD2267ECFCD7" box="[1083,1229,765,791]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
.
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describes
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1E33FCFE61CFFCFB" box="[604,750,801,827]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
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possessing apical cells that are shorter than the ulnar cells in the fore wing.
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worked primarily with
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species no longer assigned to
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, but
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and
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illustrate this character in the fore wing of the
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species of
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. The apical and ulnar cells are about the same length in the new genus. Male sternite VIII is V-shaped, the dorsal beak is spine-like, and the uncus is longer and curved in
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1FE9FC6E6739FC0B" box="[902,1048,945,971]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Melampsalta</emphasis>
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.
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All African
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genera are part of the same clade (
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Marshall
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. 2015a
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;
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).
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE18D2FC0A665CFC2F" box="[1213,1405,981,1007]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Afromelampsalta</emphasis>
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can be distinguished from
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1E6DFC25616FFBD3" box="[514,590,1018,1043]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Buyisa</emphasis>
Distant, 1907
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and
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1F44FC2660EFFBD3" box="[811,974,1017,1043]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Stellenboschia</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBBFFEE1FB8FC266751FBD3" author="Distant, W. L." box="[983,1136,1017,1043]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534" pagination="369 - 376" refId="ref7445" refString="Distant, W. L. (1920) Some undescribed Ethiopian Cicadidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, 5 (28), 369 - 376. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222932008632389" type="journal article" year="1920">Distant, 1920</bibRefCitation>
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by the five apical cells in the hind wings of these genera. Species of
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can be distinguished from species of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1942FBC16658FBF7" box="[1325,1401,1054,1079]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Buyisa</emphasis>
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by the seven apical cells in the fore wing of that genus and from the species of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1F9FFB9E67B2FB9B" box="[1008,1171,1089,1115]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Stellenboschia</emphasis>
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by the fore wing radial cell being is half as wide as it is long and the fore wing width is half the length of the fore wings.
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE18B5FBBA6617FBBF" box="[1242,1334,1125,1151]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Pinheya</emphasis>
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can be distinguished by the infuscation in the wings, the visible crossvein along the nodal line and the flattened postclypeus when viewed from the side, all of which are lacking in the new genus.
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1CA8FB0F6240FB2B" bold="true" box="[199,353,1232,1259]" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">Distribution.</emphasis>
The species of the genus primarily are restricted to
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(
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;
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBBFFEE1885FB0E621CFACF" author="Duffels, J. P. &amp; van der Laan, P. A." pageId="3" pageNumber="534" refId="ref7532" refString="Duffels, J. P. &amp; van der Laan, P. A. (1985) Catalogue of the Cicadoidea (Homoptera, Auchenorhyncha) 1956 - 1980. Series Entomologica 34. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, Dordrect, 414 pp." type="book" year="1985">Duffels and van der Laan 1985</bibRefCitation>
;
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). The
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locality of
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<emphasis id="B93AEAFCFFBBFFEE1E8BFB2A605BFACF" box="[740,890,1269,1295]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="534">A. aethiopica</emphasis>
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is Zomba,
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(
<bibRefCitation id="EFDF4B1FFFBBFFEE1926FB2A63F1FAF3" author="Distant, W. L." pageId="3" pageNumber="534" pagination="265 - 281" refId="ref7298" refString="Distant, W. L. (1905) Rhynchotal notes XXXV. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (7) 16, 265 - 281. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 03745480509442862" type="journal article" year="1905">Distant 1905</bibRefCitation>
) that is now a part of
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and represents the northernmost limit of the known range for the genus.
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