Calodia keralica, Meshram, 2019

Meshram, Naresh M., 2019, Leafhopper tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) of the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 4653 (1), pp. 1-91 : 10

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4653.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5191047

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD4987FE-4A65-E014-FF0C-FDFEFDD1FAA3

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scientific name

Calodia keralica
status

sp. nov.

Calodia keralica View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 1 B View FIGURES 1 , 4 B View FIGURES 4 , 7 B View FIGURES 7 , 16 View FIGURES 16 A–H.

Male. Head ochraceous with greenish tinge; ocelli black; eyes brown; pronotum and mesonotum black with posterior margin paler; forewings ochraceous with greenish tinge; thoracic sternites and pleurites, black ( Figs. 1 B View FIGURES 1 , 4 B View FIGURES 4 , 7 B View FIGURES 7 ).

Male genitalia: Pygofer in lateral view with caudoventral blade-like marginal process, small lobe on caudodorsal margin ( Fig. 16 H View FIGURES 16 ). Subgenital plate long, narrow, with small spine at apex ( Fig. 16 E View FIGURES 16 ). Style broad at base, distal 1/3 narrowed and oblique ( Fig. 16 F View FIGURES 16 ). Connective longer than wide at base ( Fig. 16 G View FIGURES 16 ). Aedeagus with shaft narrowed at apex in lateral view with two equal, subapical, glabrous processes, gonopore distad of base of proximal process ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 16 A–D).

Measurements. Male 6.2−6.4 mm long, 1.7 mm wide across eyes and 1.8 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Kerala: [Kasargod] CPCRI,. xii.1993, Oil Palm Sap Feeder , 871/94, 22, Palode Coll. ( NPC) . Paratypes: 2 ♂, same data as holotype except 871/95, 23 and 871/96, 24 ( NPC, UASB) .

Etymology. The species is named after Kerala state in India where the material was collected.

Remarks. Calodia keralica sp. nov. resembles C. ostenta in the structure of the aedeagus, but differs in having a blade-like, caudoventral process of the pygofer ( Fig. 16 H View FIGURES 16 ) and a small spine at the apex of the subgenital plate ( Fig. 16 E View FIGURES 16 ), not present in C. ostenta ( Fig. 20 E View FIGURES 20 ). The style has a very narrow apophysis in lateral view ( Fig. 16 F View FIGURES 16 ) compared to that of C. ostenta ( Fig. 20 F View FIGURES 20 ).

NPC

National Pusa Collection

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Calodia

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