Hishimonus sonapaharensis Ramachandra Rao

Viraktamath, C. A. & Anantha Murthy, H. V., 2014, Review of the genera Hishimonus Ishihara and Litura Knight (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of new species, Zootaxa 3785 (2), pp. 101-138 : 114-115

Hishimonus sonapaharensis Ramachandra Rao

Figs 177–182 .

Hishimonus sonapharensis Ramachandra Rao 1988: 67 –68, figs 41–45.

Head, pronotum, scutum and scutellum creamy white with brown mottling, crown with transverse brown fascia on anterior submargin. Forewing silvery white with brown mottling, medial spot not prominent.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view longer than its height, posterior margin broadly rounded, macrosetae confined to posterior half. Valve triangular with conically rounded posterior margin, 1.8 times as broad at base as long medially. Subgenital plate with well defined posterior fingerlike process 0.30 times total length, lateral margin less strongly convex. Style twice as long as broad at base, with slender, slightly laterally curved apophysis, subapical lobe well defined. Connective with stem 1.5 times length of arms. Aedeagus without basal processes; dorsal apodeme well developed; each shaft divergent from base in posterior view, broadened distally and apices tightly curved inwardly; in lateral view shafts appearing lamellate and curved anteriorly, apices rounded; gonopore almost at midlength of each shaft.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Meghalay: Shillong: Sonapahar, 29.ii.1977, K.R.Rao Coll. ( ZSIC).

Remarks. H. sonaparensis resembles H. mayarami in the structure of male genitalia, but differs in having strongly inwardly curved apices of aedeagal shafts and a slender apex of the apophysis of the style.

Figures

FIGURES 177 – 191. Species of Hishimonus. 177 – 182. Hishimonus sonapaharensis Ramachandra Rao.: 177. Subgenital plate, ventral view; 178. Style, dorsal view; 179. Apex of apophysis of style, lateral view; 180. Connective, dorsal view; 181. Aedeagal shaft, lateral view; 182. Aedeagus, anterior view. 183 – 192. Hishimonus spicans sp. nov.: 183. Head and thorax, dorsal view; 184. Head and thorax, profile; 185. Male valve, ventral view; 186. Male pygofer, lateral view; 187. Subgenital plate, ventral view; 188. Style, dorsal view; 189. Connective, dorsal view; 190. Aedeagus, posterior view; 191. Aedeagus, anterior view; 192. Aedeagal shaft, lateral view.