Hishimonus spicans, Viraktamath, C. A. & Anantha Murthy, H. V., 2014

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 : 115

Hishimonus spicans sp. nov.

Figs 27–28 , 183 –192.

Head, pronotum and scutellum yellow with pale brown mottling especially more prominent on pronotum. Crown of head with spot on either side of median line on posterior margins and another spot anterior to it dark brown. Forewings ivory white with few mottling between veins brown, median spot brown with dark brown border on anterior margin and posterior corner with dark brown spot.

Male genitalia. Pygofer longer than height in lateral view, lobe with a few stout macrosetae over dorsocaudal quarter and numerous stout microsetae subapically on posterodorsal area. Valve about twice as wide at base as long medially, triangular . Subgenital plate with lateral rows of stout macrosetae approximately as long as the total length of plate; terminal fingerlike process about 0.33 length of plate, with short hairlike microsetae. Style thrice as long as wide at base, subapical lobe well developed with a few hairlike setae, apophysis directed posteriorly. Stem of connective short, stout, about 0.5 as long as arms. Aedeagus with widely separated basal processes about half as long as shaft, blunt and placed between shafts; aedeagal shaft divergent from base in basal half and curved inwardly and convergent in posterior half, in lateral view bent at midlength almost at right angle with acute apex; gonopore subapical on posterior surface;

Measurements. Male 3.5 mm long, 1.13 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Karnataka: Bhagamandala, 25.i.1980, S. Viraktamath ( UAS).

Remarks. This species closely resembles H. aberrans in the structure of the male genitalia but differs in having stout microsetae on the pygofer lobe and a strongly dorsally directed aedeagal shaft produced into an apical sharp thin process rather than hooked at apex as in the latter species.

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 38. Species of Hishimonus and Litura. 25 & 26. H. phycitis (Distant) dark color morph; 27 & 28. H. spicans sp. nov.; 29 & 30. H. thapai sp. nov.; 31 – 33. H. viraktamathi Knight, color variation; 34 & 35. H. zeylanicus sp. nov.; 36 & 37. Litura unda Knight; 38. Litura triangula sp. nov. Figs 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 34, 36, 38. Dorsal view; Figs 26, 28, 30, 33, 35, 37. Dorsolateral view.

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.