Igerna wilsoni Viraktamath, 2011

Viraktamath, C. A., Yeshwanth, H. M. & Ajaykumara, K. M., 2024, New species of the leafhopper tribes Agalliini and Macropsini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from north and northeast India with checklist of species of the tribes from the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 5486 (2), pp. 267-282 : 278

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5486.2.5

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E70183F2-1214-4D08-B21D-5F13D83EFA07

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13209919

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039287E6-FFE0-CF6D-FF36-FF32FE29FD77

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scientific name

Igerna wilsoni Viraktamath
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Igerna wilsoni Viraktamath View in CoL

Figs 6A–K View FIGURES 6

Diagnosis. Externally resembling J. turriformis Zhang & Dai (2018) but differs in having the aedeagus in proximal region more or less rectangular and shaft ventral process much longer than shaft in lateral view, aedeagal shaft with one pair of long, basilateral processes and one pair of subapical teeth on ventral surface and shaft apex slightly flared.

Material examined. INDIA: Arunachal Pradesh: 1♂, Monigong, 13.vii.2022, at light, Ajaykumara K. M .; 1♂, Hunli, 30.viii.2022, Ajaykumara K. M. ( UASB) .

Remarks. Viraktamath (2011) adequately described and illustrated this species based on the holotype male collected from Gopaldhara, Darjeeling (West Bengal). In the holotype there are no cross veins between the claval veins and hence the species was placed in the genus Igerna . However, the specimens collected from Hunli and Monigong have a claval cross vein either on one or both forewings ( Fig.6A View FIGURES 6 ). Igerna and Japanagallia are closely related and often difficult to segregate and Viraktamath (2011) separated them based on the presence or absence of the claval cross veins in the forewing. Therefore, more critical examination of the species of Igerna and Japanagallia described from the Oriental region is necessary using both morphological and molecular characters to segregate them with higher confidence.

UASB

University of Agricultural Sciences

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Igerna

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