Sophonia vidarvya, Meshram, Naresh M., 2017
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.9 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016511 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F787B6-FFF4-E371-BDFE-05A15C1D9652 |
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Sophonia vidarvya |
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sp. nov. |
Sophonia vidarvya View in CoL sp. nov.
(Figs. 15, 30, 45,60–66)
Yellow. Area near ocelli and below anterior margin of pronotum golden yellow, compound eyes offwhite. Forewing pale yellow, costal margin with anterior, oblique and two posterior, transverse, black fasciae; second apical cell with black spot (Figs. 15, 30 & 45).
Head angularly produced. Anteclypeus not exceeding facial margin ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 31 – 45 ). Ocelli near lateral margins of vertex, distance between eye and ocellus 3x diameter of ocellus. Vertex broadly concave and with irregular sculpturing anteriorly. Scutellum 0.8x as long as pronotum. Pronotum 0.65x longer than broad and 0.8X longer than vertex ( Fig. 45 View FIGURES 31 – 45 ).
Male genitalia. Pygofer with several macrosetae in posterior half, with caudodorsal angle roundly produced, below which long, slender process arises, directed caudally, upcurved at right angle at midlength, apex slightly hooked, with spinelike branch at base ( Fig. 60–61 View FIGURES 60 – 66 ). Subgenital plate broader medially than at apex and base with median row of six stout macrosetae ( Fig. 66 View FIGURES 60 – 66 ). Style slender, preapical lobe robust, apophysis slender, apex short, beaklike ( Fig. 62 View FIGURES 60 – 66 ). Connective Y-shaped with stem 2.3x as long as arms, apex expanded ( Fig. 63 View FIGURES 60 – 66 ). Aedeagus dorsal apodomes with two arms well separated, winglike in middle, each arm with dorsomedianprocesses curved caudally, caudal processdirected anteriorly and in contact with dorsomedian process, caudoventral processes crossing midline caudad of shaft;shaft strongly curved anteriorly, apex flared with two dorsally directed recurved processes ( Figs. 64–65 View FIGURES 60 – 66 ).
Measurements. Male 4.3mm long, 0.9 mm wide across eyes, 0.66 mm wide across hind margin of pronotum.
Type material. Holotype ♂, INDIA: Meghalaya: Barapni (25° 39′11.52″ N, 91°53′ 3.48 E, 813 M), 01.vi.2012, Mercury vapour lamp, Naresh Meshram Coll GoogleMaps . Paratypes 3♂ same data as Holotype ( NPC) GoogleMaps .
Etymology. The species name (Sanskrit: vidarvya meaning hoodless) alludes to the aedeagal shaft lacking a hoodlike expansion anteriorly.
Remarks. Sophonia vidarvya sp. nov. resembles S. complicata Viraktamath & Wesley (Figs. 5, 20, & 35), but can be distinguished by the shape of the aedeagus (features of S. complicata in parentheses): shaft apex with lateral processes acuminate in posterior view, curved strongly ventrad in lateral view (shaft apical processes rounded in posterior view, straight in lateral view).
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National Pusa Collection |
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