Doratura vefele, Bückle & Guglielmino, 2022

Bückle, Christoph & Guglielmino, Adalgisa, 2022, Revision of the genus Doratura Sahlberg (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) with particular regard to its distribution in Italy and description of four new species, Zootaxa 5112 (1), pp. 1-116 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5112.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6342957
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scientific name	Doratura vefele
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D. vefele complex

( Figs 9M View FIGURE 9 ; 16A–E View FIGURE 16 ; 17E–L, O–S View FIGURE 17 ; 18D–G View FIGURE 18 ; 19G View FIGURE 19 )

There are specimens of several localities in northern Spain, central Morocco and Tunisia ( Fig. 56 View FIGURE 56 ) which present ± the typical vertex shape and coloration of D. vefele but share not all the other characters of this taxon. Primarily in their aedeagus morphology ( Figs 17E–L View FIGURE 17 ), they resemble rather D. stylata in so far as the basal shield is well developed and/or the ventral margin is slightly sinuate (but in all examined specimens completely smooth). In some cases (particularly in specimens from Morocco and Tunisia), the median denticle of the styles ( Fig. 17R View FIGURE 17 ) is directed somewhat ventrad and therefore not easily visible without disconnecting the styles from the genital plates. The (only two) females ( Figs 16C, E View FIGURE 16 ; from Tunisia and northern Spain, respectively) have a distinctly shorter ovipositor than the (two) females in the type series of D. vefele ( Figs 15A, D View FIGURE 15 ; Morocco and southern Spain). A nymph ( Fig. 9M View FIGURE 9 ) belonging to a series of specimens from Tunisia (Beja) displays the coloration pattern as observed in D. vefele ( Fig. 9L View FIGURE 9 ) and D. stylata ( Fig. 9A View FIGURE 9 ).