Chandrapona vespertilis, Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2019

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2019, Two new genera of Pacific Paraboloponina leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Drabescini) with description of three new species, Zootaxa 4604 (1), pp. 176-182 : 180-181

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4604.1.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:EB0717E7-E22D-4BE4-9F9E-E00E57C1B699

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5934052

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A6B45F-FF90-3A37-A784-D57CC12EF993

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Plazi

scientific name

Chandrapona vespertilis
status

sp. nov.

Chandrapona vespertilis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 )

Length (including tegmen). Male: 7.5 mm.

Colour and external characters as in generic description. Fore femur with AM1 near midheight, IC with series of 11 fine setae; fore tibia with dorsal setal arrangement of rows PD and AD 4+4.

Male genitalia with pygofer appendage very long, curved slightly ventrally and tapered to acute apex. Style lateral lobe distinct, apophysis short and robust, apex truncate with lateroapical angle slightly produced. Aedeagus with shaft short, laterally compressed, tapered distally to hook-like apex; lateral flange-like processes very large batwing-like; ventral processes long and stout, strongly curved dorsally, extending to beyond shaft apex.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Malaysia (Borneo), Sabah, Bukit Monkobo , base camp, stunted hill forest, 51°48’N, 116°58’E, 7.viii. 1987, 900 m, light trap, A.H. Kirk-Spriggs ( NMW). GoogleMaps

Distribution. Malaysia (Sabah).

Etymology. The species takes its name from vespertilio the Latin name for a bat for the bat wing-like processes of the aedeagus.

NMW

Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Chandrapona

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