Monobazus Distant

Khatri, Imran & Webb, Michael D., 2010, The Deltocephalinae leafhoppers of Pakistan (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), Zootaxa 2365, pp. 1-47 : 7

Monobazus Distant

Remarks. A review of this genus is in preparation by the second author and C.A. Viraktamath.

Monobazus dissimilis (Distant) , comb. nov. (Plate 1, d; Fig. 4 ).

Deltocephalus fuscovarius Distant. Syn. nov.

Material examined. Pakistan: 213, 4Ƥ, Sindh Prov., Tando Jam, 7.xi.07. India: several specimens from throughout India and Sri Lanka, including the syntypeƤ of Xestocephalus dissimilis and 2Ƥ syntypes of Deltocephalus fuscovarius ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species is similar to Osbornellus (Mavromoustaca) macchiae (see below) in having a pair of long basal paraphyses of the aedeagus ( Figs 4 k-m) but these are dorsal rather than ventral and its subgenital plate is distinctive in being very long with its apical part digitate and lightly sclerotised, macrosetae relatively slender, and with both marginal and dorsal long fine setae.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Monobazus dissimilis (Distant), a, head and thorax, dorsal view; b, face; c, forewing; d, hindwing; e, f, male genital capsule, lateral view and dorsal view respectively; g, connective; h, valve, subgenital plate style and connective, dorsal view; i – j, style; k – m, aedeagus lateral view, dorsal view and ventral view respectively; n, second valvulae; o, first valvulae.