Docalidia takiyae, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, New species in the Neotropical genus Docalidia with a key to known species, notes on distribution, taxonomy and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini) 2952, Zootaxa 2952 (1), pp. 1-86 : 57-61

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5286455

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Docalidia takiyae
status

sp. nov.

Docalidia takiyae View in CoL , sp. nov.

(Plate IVB, Figs. 218–226 View FIGURES 218–226 )

Length. Male 7.00 – 7.40 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, robust species. General color of dorsum dark brown to black with pale, ivory markings; forewings brown in apical 2/3, black in basal 1/3, separated by broad transverse, pale ivory band below mesonotum and subapically, veins marked with small ivory spots; mesonotum and pronotum black with numerous, small yellow spots on pronotum; crown yellow; eyes translucent (Plate IVB); face black and ivory; clypeus black with row of short ivory lines on each side; small ivory spots medially; clypellus ivory; lorae black; genae bordered by ivory; black stripe below eye; ocellocular area yellow brown.

Head broad, narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, wider than eye, produced anteriorly about ¼ of entire length, foveate on each side of middle; eyes large, elongate-ovoid; pronotum large, nearly twice as long as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum large, about half again as long as pronotum; forewings long, broad, venation typical; clypeus elongate, broad, lateral margins broadly convex, median longitudinal carina prominent; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, median longitudinal ridge inflated in basal 2/3.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view small, broadly triangulate, caudodorsal process robust, very broad basally, abruptly narrowed distally, caudoventral process absent ( Fig. 218 View FIGURES 218–226 ); segment X with narrow, digitate ventral process ( Fig. 219 View FIGURES 218–226 ); right subgenital plate moderately long, broad, glabrous ( Fig. 220 View FIGURES 218–226 ); right style long, about as long as aedeagus, robust, semibulbous in distal ¼, glabrous ( Figs. 221, 222 View FIGURES 218–226 ); aedeagus long, shaft very narrow in ventral view, triangulate flange medially in lateral view, ventral process subapical, long ( Figs. 223, 224 View FIGURES 218–226 ); connective Y-shaped, membrane present, medial ridge extending beyond anterior margins of arms, stem long, broad ( Fig. 225 View FIGURES 218–226 ); dorsal connective short, strapped shape, broad in basal ¾ ( Fig. 226 View FIGURES 218–226 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. Colombia: Amazonas , PNN, Amacayacu Matamata, 3º23’S. 70º6’W., 150 m., 2 Oct 01–15 Oct 01, M. 2239, Malaise, D. Chota (HB) GoogleMaps . Paratypes. 1 male, same data as holotype except 17 Sep 01–1 Oct 01, M. 2234 ( MLBM) GoogleMaps ; 1 male, same data as holotype except 13 Sep 00–13 Sep 00, M. 2562 ( UK) GoogleMaps ; 2 males, same data as holotype except PNN, Amacayacu , San Martin, 3º23’S. 70º6’W., 150 m GoogleMaps ., 15 Oct 01–15 Oct 01, M.2762 (HB).

PLATE IV. A–H. Dorsal habitus. A. Docalidia rondoniensis , sp. nov.; B. Docalidia takiyae , sp. nov.; C. Docalidia tantula , sp. nov.; D. Docalidia timothyi , sp. nov.; E. Docalidia torquerta , sp. nov.; F. Docalidia turgida , sp. nov.; G. Docalidia ventroelongata , sp. nov.; H. Docalidia ventrospinata , sp. nov.

Etymology. The name is patronymic in honor of Daniela Takiya, Professor of Entomology, Departamento do Entomologia, Museu Nacional, Universidade do Federal de Rio Janeiro for her excellent taxonomic and phylogenetic treatises of the sharpshooter subfamily Cicadellinae .

Remarks. This species has some similarities in male genital features to D. ferruginea (Fabricius) ( Nielson, 1979b:255) and can be distinguished by the glabrous style, the presence of segment X ventral process and the much longer ventral aedeagal process.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Docalidia

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