Taharana gracilata, Nielson, 2015

Nielson, M. W., 2015, A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), Insecta Mundi 2015 (410), pp. 1-202 : 70-71

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5181587

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E574C53C-B3FF-4030-94F9-447B68595ABF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5190947

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BA1722-D833-9608-7DAE-FA02FE58FD56

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scientific name

Taharana gracilata
status

sp. nov.

Taharana gracilata View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Plate 7D View Plate 7 , Fig. 410-416 View Figures 410-416 )

Description. Length. Male 7.00-7.40 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, slender species. General color black; forewings black with short, yellow stripes on veins, dark brown, irregularly shaped markings in cells; mesonotum black, without markings; pronotum black, bullae yellow; crown light to dark brown, without markings; eyes light to dark brown; face light brown, without markings; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin rounded; crown moderately long, narrower than width of eyes, slightly produced anteriorly, lateral margins convergent basally; eyes large, semiglobular; pronotum moderately large, about as long medially as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum large, longer medially than pronotum; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus short, narrow, apex flared.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view narrow, long, glabrous, caudodorsal process very narrow, subapical spine in dorsal view, caudoventral process long, slightly sinuate, broad medially, tapered sharply apically, short row of small teeth on ventral margin medially ( Fig. 410 View Figures 410-416 ), in dorsal view caudodorsal processes caliperate with small subapical spine on inner lateral margin ( Fig. 411 View Figures 410-416 ); aedeagus long, tubular, shaft slightly broad in basal 1/3, tubular in distal 2/ 3 in lateral view, patch of small teeth in dorsoapical margin, gonopore sub-medial ( Fig. 412, 413 View Figures 410-416 ); style very small, base large with short, digitate apophysis ( Fig. 414 View Figures 410-416 ); dorsal connective long, narrow ( Fig. 412 View Figures 410-416 ); connective small, anterior arms very narrow, medial ridge complete, stem digitate ( Fig. 415 View Figures 410-416 ); subgenital plate moderately long, somewhat broad ( Fig. 416 View Figures 410-416 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. THAILAND: Nakhon Si Thammarat, Namtok Yong NP, Behind / Campground Lavatory , 8 o 10.44’N 99 o 44.508’E, 80 m., / Pan trap, 30-31.vii.2008, U. Prai. K., leg., T3085 ( QSBG) GoogleMaps . Paratypes. 4 males, same data as holotype, T 3080, T 3075, T 3075, T 3979 ( QSBG, ULKY, MLBM).

Etymology. The species name is descriptive for the slender pygofer processes and connective.

Remarks. This species is similar to T. forcipia in features of the pygofer caudoventral process and can be distinguished by the pygofer with the subapical spine on a very narrow caudodorsal process and broader arms of the connective.

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

ULKY

University of Louisville

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Taharana

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