Taharana biunca, 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 : 60-61

Taharana biunca , sp. nov.

( Plate 5F , Fig. 296-303 )

Description. Length. Male 7.60-8.20 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, slender species. General color black. Forewings with very short, dark yellow stripes on veins, cells with numerous, irregular shaped pale brown markings; mesonotum black with few dark yellow spots or without; pronotum black, bullae dark yellow; crown brown with black stripe on each side of middle; eyes light to dark brown; face light brown throughout except for pale to dark orange, longitudinal stripe on inner margins; clypellus light brown, unmarked; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely angulate; crown short, narrower than width of eyes; produced anteriorly about ¼ entire length, convergent basally; eyes large, semiglobular, pronotum moderately large, about as long medially as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum, about half again medially as long as pronotum; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins nearly parallel, clypellus narrow, apex flared laterally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view sub quadrate with long caudodorsal process, process with narrow curved, apical spine, caudoventral process long, margins nearly parallel with small subapical spur on ventral margin ( Fig. 296 ), in dorsal view caudodorsal processes very narrow throughout, curved mesally in apical half, crossing subapically ( Fig. 297 ); aedeagus moderately long, tubular, sinuate in lateral view, shaft slightly inflated in basal half, toothed in distal 1/5 on dorsal margin, gonopore near middle ( Fig. 298, 299 ); style small with short apophysis ( Fig. 300, 301 ); dorsal connective long, narrow ( Fig. 298, 299 ); connective small, anterior arms moderately broad, sub truncate apically, medial ridge complete, stem small sub ovate ( Fig. 302 ); subgenital plate moderately long, moderately broad, glabrous ( Fig. 303 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. THAILAND: Phetchabun Khao Khu NP., Deciduous forest at Khla stream. / 16 o 39.267’N 101 o 07.945’E., 186 m., Malaise trap, 26.iii-2.iv.2007, Somchai Chachumman and Saink Singtong, leg., T2418 ( QSBG) . Paratypes. 1 male, Chaiyaphum, Pa Hin Ngam NP., car park at Tung / Pok Graejeaw , 15 o 38.438’N 101 o 23.576’E., 780 m., pan traps / 7-8.viii.2006, Kratae Sa-nog and Buakaw Adnafai, leg., T325 ( ULKY) ; 1 male, Chaiyaphum Pa Hin Ngam NP, Nature trail at Lan / Hin Nau , 15 o 37.615’N 101 o 23.436’E., 668 m., Malaise trap, 13- / 19.ix.2006, Katae Sa-nog & Buakaw Adnafai, leg., T851 ( MLBM) . Additional material: 7 males. Phetchabun Nam Nao NP, Forest protection unit- Huay Pralard / cave, 16 o 44.963’N. 101 o 27.833’E., 711 m., pan traps, 17- / 18.i.2007, Noopean Hongyothi – Leng Janteab, leg. T 1616. ( QSBG).

Etymology. The name of the species is descriptive for the hooked apexes of the caudodorsal process and caudoventral process of the pygofer in lateral view.

Figures

PLATE 5. A-I. Dorsal habitus. (A) Singillatus gracilis, sp. nov.; (B) Singillatus ventrospinatus, sp. nov.; (C) Taharana caverna, sp. nov.; (D) Taharana sublamina, sp. nov.; (E) Taharana abstrusa, sp. nov.; (F) Taharana biunca, sp. nov.; (G) Taharana lacertosa, sp. nov.; (H) Taharana biavicula, sp. nov.; (I) Taharana brevicutata, sp. nov.

Figures 296-303. Genitalia, Taharana biunca, sp. nov. 296) Male pygofer, lateral view. 297) Pygofer caudodorsal processes, dorsal view. 298) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view. 299) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal view. 300) Style, lateral view. 301) Style, dorsal view. 302) Connective, caudal view. 303) Subgenital plate, ventral view.