Xenovarta ankusha, Viraktamath, C. A., 2004

Viraktamath, C. A., 2004, A revision of the VartaStymphalus generic complex of the leafhopper tribe Scaphytopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Old World, Zootaxa 713, pp. 1-47 : 26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.169479
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6271660
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scientific name	Xenovarta ankusha
status	sp. nov.

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Xenovarta ankusha View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs 48 View FIGURES 41 – 48 , 154–162 View FIGURES 154 – 167 .

Dark bluish green, margins of vertex anterior to eyes bright red, without black spots, lateral area of vertex mesad of eyes paler. Face bluish green except ochraceous median area of frontoclypeus, basal areas of clypellus and lora. Pronotum bluish green except anterior paler border, a faint median pair and brighter lateral pair of longitudinal stripes red. Scutellum medially and apically green, rest brownish ochraceous. Front wing bluish green, apical area transparent, pale brown, red stripes as in Fig. 48 View FIGURES 41 – 48 .

Head acutely triangularly produced in front of eyes, lateral margins sharp, upturned, 2.6 times as long as interocular width, 1.8 times as long as pronotum.

Male genitalia: Pygophore caudally triangularly produced, with a number of macrosetae on caudodorsal area. Segment X broad, not exceeding pygophore. Valve and subgenital plates fused to form a median plate with a median slit extending almost 0.5 length of plate, with marginal row of macrosetae and a pair of caudal sclerotized lobes. Style with equally developed anterolateral and anteromesal angles, preapical lobe welldeveloped, apophysis long, with strong transverse rugulae, of uniform width and distally rounded. Connective Yshaped, with stem short, arms long, in contact with each other anteriorly. Aedeagus with welldeveloped dorsal apodeme, shaft spatulate, twisted in distal half, terminated by two asymmetrically curved fingerlike processes, making it asymmetrical, gonopore subapical, arising on right hand side.

Measurements: Male 6.7 mm long, 1.2 mm wide across hind margin of head, 1.4 mm wide across hind margin of pronotum.

Material examined: CHINA: holotype ɗ, Guangdong: Fengkai: Heishiding, 8.viii.1986, H. Xiang, SunYetsen University, Guangzhou: China ( NWAU).

Remarks: X. ankusha differs from other species of Xenovarta in having entire, conically produced pygophore and spatulate, medially twisted aedeagal shaft. It is not closely related to any of the included species in the genus though it shares the characters of the male pygophore with X. compressa .