Kapateira peruana, Godoy

Godoy, Carolina, Garita-Cambronero, Jerson & Villalobos, Carmen Rivera William, 2006, Two new species of Kapateira Young from Costa Rica (Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae), Zootaxa 1282, pp. 29-38 : 36

Kapateira peruana, Godoy , sp. nov. ( Figs. 14–18 )

Type material. Holotype: male, PERU, Monson Valley, Tingo Maria, XII­9­1954, E. Schlinger and E. S. Ross ( CAS).

Description. Length of male 7.9 mm. Mustard yellow, with black spots or lines dorsally on head; pronotum with two spots. Scutellum mustard yellow, with black spots medially ( Fig. 14 ).

Male genitalia: pygofer with ventral margin rounded and produced on dorsal posterior margin ( Fig. 15 ). Plate narrowly triangular, extending posteriorly beyond apex of pygofer, with uniseriate macrosetae. Style extending posteriorly beyond connective. Connective broadly U­shaped ( Fig. 16 ). Aedeagus symmetrical in lateral view with paired short apical processes projecting distally, gonopore apical, basal apodemes greatly elongate ( Figs. 17–18 ).

Distribution. Known only from Peru.

Diagnosis. Kapateira peruana is similar to K. rosipennis , but the aedeagus has paired processes and is thus very distinct from that in K. rosipennis .

Etymology. Named for the country from which this species was collected.

Figures

FIGURES 14 – 18. Kapateira peruana, Godoy sp. nov. (holotype). 14. Anterior dorsum, dorsal view; 15. Pygofer, subgenital plate and valve, lateral view; 16. Style and connective, dorsal view; 17. Aedeagus, lateral view; 18. Aedeagus, ventral view.