Oncopsis caliginosa Anufriev, 1967

Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2017, Review of the genus Oncopsis Burmeister, 1838 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) of Russia and adjacent countries with description of a new species from Central Asia, Zootaxa 4216 (6), pp. 537-558 : 541

6. Oncopsis caliginosa Anufriev, 1967

Figs. 24–26 , 81–86

Description. Coloration typical ( Figs. 24–26 ), females similar to males or brown, sometimes with almost obsolete dark pattern.

Penis of typical shape, with ventral margin convex or almost straight in side view (Figs. 81–82). Lower appendage of dorsal connective evenly curved upwards, sometimes with slightly expanded or bifurcated tip and with one or two small processes or knobs in middle of dorsal margin. Margins of knobs and the end of the main branch are finely serrated (Figs. 82–84). Style parallel-margined, with blunt tip (Figs. 85–86).

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 5.2–5.7 mm; ♀, 5.7–6.3 mm.

Distinctly differs from all other species by peculiar shape of lower appendage of dorsal connective and by blunt rounded style tips (acute or angulate in all other species from Russia and Central Asia ).

Host. Betula platyphylla and B. davurica .

Distribution. Russia: Southern Maritime Territory, Southern Sakhalin, Kurile Islands (Shikotan, Kunashir); Japan: Honshu ( Lauterer & Anufriev, 1969; Hayashi & Higashikawa, 1997).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 32. Oncopsis spp., lateral view and face. 1 – 5 ― O. sulphurea (1 and 4 – 5 ― male from the mainland, 2 – 3 ― specimens from Shikotan, Kurile Islands), 6 – 9 ― O. nitobei, 10 – 15 ― O. furva, paratypes, 16 – 20 ― O. sepulcralis, 21 – 23 ― O. discrepans, 24 – 26 ― O. caliginosa, 27 – 28 ― O. wagneri, 29 – 32 ― O. ochotensis.