Platyjassula mahajangensis, Dietrich & Magalhães & Takiya, 2020

Dietrich, Christopher H., Magalhães, Raysa Brito de & Takiya, Daniela M., 2020, Revision of the endemic Malagasy leafhopper tribe Platyjassini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae), European Journal of Taxonomy 695, pp. 1-89 : 40-41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.695

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4342141

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B49E9D41-6090-48CB-8850-424FEC99B7C8

taxon LSID

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treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Platyjassula mahajangensis
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Platyjassula mahajangensis View in CoL gen. et sp. nov.

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Etymology

The species name is derived from the province of the type locality.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR • ♂; “ MADAGASCAR: Province de Mahajanga, Parc National d’Ankarafantsika , Ampijoroa Station Forestière , 40 km 306° NW Andranofasika, elev 130m, 26 March – 1 April 2001, 16°19′15″ S 46°48′38″ E, coll. Fisher, Griswold et al. California Acad. of Sciences, malaise trap in tropical dry forest, coll. code: BLF3520 ”; CAS. GoogleMaps

Paratypes

MADAGASCAR – Antsiranana • 1 ♂; Réserve Spéciale de l’Ankarana , 13.6 km 192° SSW of Anivorano Nord; 12°51′49″ S, 49°13′33″ E; alt. 210 m; 16–20 Feb. 2001; Fisher, Griswold et al. leg GoogleMaps .;

Malaise trap; tropical dry forest; coll. code: BLF3011; CAS 1 ♂; Orangea , 3 km E of Ramena, near fort; 12°14′49″ S, 49°22′17″ E; alt. 65 m; 23–27 Jan. 2001; M.E. Irwin, E.I. Schlinger and R. Harin’Hala leg.; Malaise trap; littoral forest on sand; MA- 01-05-02; INHS GoogleMaps 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; CAS GoogleMaps .

Description

Length of male 7.1–7.5 mm, female 8.7 mm. Crown anterior margin, lateral margin of pronotum and costal margin of forewing bordered with pale yellow contrasting with darker adjacent areas; dorsal margin of face and dorsal surface of front tibia dark brown, other legs without dark markings. Crown distinctly shorter than pronotum, broadly rounded, only slightly longer medially than next to eye, anterior margin broadly rounded. Hind tibial rows PD, AD and AV with 19, 12 and 10 macrosetae, respectively. Male pygofer without ventral process. Style apophysis with dense patch of denticuli preapically on ventrolateral surface; aedeagal shaft with gonopore-bearing apical process very short and ventral branch also shorter and strongly asymmetrical, unpaired ventral process surpassing shaft and strongly hooked apically.Aedeagus with atrium disc-like, shaft arising dorsally with short, stout recurved process bearing gonopore and longer falcate process with excavated anteroventral surface curved ventrad; unpaired long, slender, slightly asymmetrical process arising ventrally from atrium and curved dorsad. Female abdominal sternite VII with pair of short, narrow median lobes. Second valvulae with dorsal margin rising to distinct medial peak, then descending posterad to acute apex, distal fourth coarsely serrate with teeth slightly offset between sides.

INHS

USA, Illinois, Champaign, Illinois Natural History Survey

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Platyjassula

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