Doratura iblea D’Urso, 1983

Bückle, Christoph & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2022, Revision of the genus Doratura Sahlberg (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) with particular regard to its distribution in Italy and description of four new species, Zootaxa 5112 (1), pp. 1-116 : 37

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( Figs 20E View FIGURE 20 ; 21C View FIGURE 21 ; 23G View FIGURE 23 ; 24H View FIGURE 24 )

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Diagnosis. Based on the shape of styles, genital plates, pygofer, and the presence of spinules on its aedeagus the species seems closely related to D. butzele and, above all, to D. paludosa . With the latter species it shares the spinules distributed also on the aedeagus tip, and the shape of the apical part of aedeagus. From both D. butzele and D. paludosa it is distinguished by the abruptly elevated ventral crest in its proximal half, and by the absence of spinules in the dorsal region of its lateral surface ( Fig. 23G View FIGURE 23 ).

Distribution ( Fig. 58 View FIGURE 58 ), ecology, phenology. The species was described from Buccheri (Siracusa, Italy) in the Iblei Mountains on a pasture at 800 m at the beginning of June, and it is known until now only from this locality in southeastern Sicily.

Remarks. We studied some Doratura specimens ( Figs 23H–L View FIGURE 23 ) collected by Vera D’Urso near Cesarò in the Nebrodi mountains (Northern Sicily) the position of which is unclear. On the basis of their aedeagus they have to be placed close to D. paludosa , but the crest is developed to a variable degree, with some affinity to the aedeagus morphology of D. iblea . The pregenital sternite of the female is very similar to the one of D. paludosa ; the median notch on its hind margin, generally just indistinct in that species, seems completely lost (as in D. iblea ). Further Doratura material from other regions of Sicily would be useful for an interpretation of the situation.