Sophonia tridenta, Meshram, Naresh M., 2017

Meshram, Naresh M., 2017, Review of the genus Sophonia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with three new species from India, Zootaxa 4243 (3), pp. 577-588 : 584-585

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.9
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:11652EBD-3C53-460A-ADF6-D4B14BC5C900
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6016509
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F787B6-FFF9-E373-BDFE-05A15B4890E4
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sophonia tridenta
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Sophonia tridenta View in CoL sp. nov.

(Figs. 14, 29,44,53–59)

Vertex pale yellow with apical ovalblack spot and two median longitudinal linesfused near hindmargin, continued on pronotum and scutellum as median stripe. Forewing yellowish, with dark brown stripe along anal margin rarely reaching apex of clavus, claval apex brown; costal margin with anterior, oblique and two posterior transverseblack fasciae; second apical cell with black spot (Figs. 14, 29 & 44).

Head bluntly produced. Ocelli near lateral margins of vertex, distance between eye and ocellus2.6x diameter of ocellus( Fig.44 View FIGURES 31 – 45 ). Vertex broadly concave and punctuate. Scutellum as long as pronotum, Pronotum 0.7x longer than broad and as long asvertex ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 31 – 45 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer suboval, with several macrosetae in posterior half, ventral process long, pointed apically with subapical spinelike tridentate process below which single toothlike spine arises ( Figs. 53–54 View FIGURES 53 – 59 ). Subgenital plate broader medially than at apex and base with median row of six stout macrosetae ( Fig. 59 View FIGURES 53 – 59 ). Style withshort preapical lobe, apophysis short, apex short, beaklike ( Fig. 56 View FIGURES 53 – 59 ). Connective Y-shaped with stem 3X as long as arms, apex expanded ( Fig.55 View FIGURES 53 – 59 ). Aedeagus with dorsal apodome elongated, slender, dorsally directed, without processes; shaft tubular, dorsoanteriorly curved with pair of long, straight processes arising at base and extended posterodorsad, pair of slender subapical processes directed caudally, each with spine near midlength laterally, apex of shaft with membranous elongated structure ( Fig. 57–58 View FIGURES 53 – 59 ).

Measurements. Male 4.4 mm long, 0.9 mm wide across eyes, 0.7 mm wide across hind margin of pronotum.

Type material. Holotype ♂, INDIA: Sikkim: Gangtok (27° 19′ 48″ N, 88° 37′ 12″ E, 1600 M), 09.vi.2012, Mercury vapour lamp, Naresh Meshram Coll GoogleMaps . Paratypes ♂ same data as Holotype ( NPC) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The species name alludes to the tridentate spinelike process on the pygofer process.

Remarks. Externally this species closely resembles to S. longicephala Viraktamath & Wesley (Fig. 11, 73– 79), but differs in having (features of S. longicephala in parentheses): pygofer ventral process with subapical spinelike tridentate process below which single spine arises (ventral process dorsally serrated);aedeagal shaft with subapical processes each with spine in the middle laterally (processes of aedeagus without any spine)