Polana (Varpulana) bahiensis, Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz & Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro, 2017

Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz & Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro, 2017, Six new Brazilian species of Polana (Varpulana) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini) with key to males, Zootaxa 4244 (4), pp. 535-555 : 538

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.4.5

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6049695

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4B1723A6-0704-4224-8D6A-109E46EFF0B0

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Polana (Varpulana) bahiensis
status

sp. nov.

Polana (Varpulana) bahiensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs 4–15 View FIGURES 4 – 15 , 97 View FIGURES 97 – 102 )

Diagnosis. Forewing ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) with six black maculae. Style ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) with ventral protrusion short with apex serrated. Aedeagus ( Figs 14, 15 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) with atrial processes very slender and curved dorsally, as long as shaft; shaft with a very slender pair of processes at mid-length of shaft, as long as shaft.

Description (male). Length 6.3mm (n=3). Head ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) in dorsal view with median length approximately four-tenths interocular width. Other characteristics as in generic description.

Coloration. Head and thorax ( Fig. 4 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) yellow without maculae. Face ( Fig. 5 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) without maculae. Prothorax with proepimeron ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ), with black stripe below pronotal carina. Forewing ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) yellow and most translucent toward apex with black maculae on: cross veins of discal cell, apex of anal veins and two smoky on near wing apex. Legs yellow.

Male terminalia. Sternite VIII ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) 1.9 times wider than long; posterior margin broadly rounded. Pygofer ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) 1.6 times longer than maximum height; dorsal margin with a short process at base; apex tapered and rounded; posterior margin ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ), in ventral view, with slight protrusion near apex. Subgenital plate ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) 3.0 times longer than wide; apex tapered and subacute. Connective ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) T-shaped, with rami as wide as length of stalk. Style ( Fig. 12 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ), in dorsal view, with outer lobe truncated; in lateral view ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ), ventral protrusion short, about 1.5 times longer than its maximum width, apex serrated; blade the same height along its entire length, apical portion slightly curved dorsally, apex subacute. Aedeagus ( Figs 14, 15 View FIGURES 4 – 15 ) with atrial processes very slender and curved dorsally, as long as shaft, somewhat enlarged near base, apex acute; shaft wider near base and slender at apex, with very slender pair of processes at mid-length of shaft, as long as shaft, with acute apex; shaft apex membranous, curved anterad and then posterad, without apical processes.

Female unknown.

Etymology. The new species name refers to the State of Bahia where the type-series was collected.

Material examined. Holotype male: " Brasil, Bahia, 10 Km NE \ Encruzilhada \ 15.483°S 40.824°W \ 830m 15.xii.2012 \ G. Melo & P. Grossi leg" ( DZUP) GoogleMaps . Paratypes: 2 ♂, " Brasil, Bahia,\ região de Ilhéus \ 2008-2009 Malaise \ K. Nakayama leg." ( DZUP) .

Remarks. Polana (V.) bahiensis sp. nov. is most similar to P. (V.) pandara in having the atrial processes very slender and aedeagal shaft with processes at mid-length. However in the new species the shaft processes are as long as the shaft itself and in P. (V.) pandara the shaft processes are three times shorter than the shaft.

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Polana

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