Glaberana spadix, 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 : 25

Glaberana spadix , sp. nov.

( Plate 2F , Fig. 112-118 )

Description. Length. Male 9.50 mm., female 11.00 mm.

External morphology. Large, robust species. General color dark brown to black; forewings brown with small yellow stripes on veins, cells with suffuse light brown markings; mesonotum black with yellow bullae in center; pronotum black with numerous yellow bullae; crown light brown; eyes dark brown; face light brown; head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely rounded; crown short, broad, about as wide as width of eyes, produced anteriorly, lateral margins convergent basally, eyes large, semiglobular; pronotum large, nearly twice as long medially as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum very large, nearly twice as long medially as pronotum; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, slightly inflated longitudinally along middle, apex flared laterally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view very large, triangulate, small lobe distally, short digitate caudoventral lobe, glabrous ( Fig. 112 ); aedeagus long, narrow, tubular, shaft nearly straight in lateral and dorsal views, row of short teeth in apical 1/6 on dorsal margin, gonopore in apical 5/6 ( Fig. 113, 114 ); style small, with moderately long apophysis ( Fig. 115, 116 ); dorsal connective very long, narrow ( Fig. 113, 114 ); connective large, anterior arms narrow, medial ridge nearly complete, stem very large, subovate ( Fig. 117 ); subgenital plate long, moderately broad, with short apical tooth, sparsely setose apically ( Fig. 118 ).

Female. Segment VII very large, more than twice as long as penultimate sternum, posterior margin slightly convex on each side of middle.

Material examined. Holotype male. LAOS: Khammouan prov., 24-29.iv.2001, 18 o 07’N 104 o 29’E., Ban Khoun Ngeun, 200 m., Vit Kuban leg. / Entomological expedition, “Laos 2001”, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic ( MMBC) . Paratypes. 3 males, 1 female, same data as holotype ( MMBC, MLBM), 1 female, LAOS-N: Phongsaly prov., 21 o 41.2’N 102 o 06.8’E., 28.v.-20.vi.2003, Phongsaly envir., 1500 m., Vit Kuban, leg. ( MMBC).

Etymology. The name of the species is descriptive for the dominant brown color of the general habitus.

Remarks. Among species with a large pygofer, G. spadix can be distinguished by the short apical spine of the subgenital plate, the small style with narrow apophysis and by the very large stem on the connective.

Figures

PLATE 2. A-I. Dorsal habitus. (A) Creberulidia corniger, sp. nov.; (B) Creberulidia penicula, sp. nov.; (C) Glaberana dentilamina, sp. nov.; (D) Glaberana penita, sp. nov.; (E) Glaberana longilamina, sp. nov.; (F) Glaberana spadix, sp. nov.; (G) Glaberana ampla, sp. nov.; (H) Glaberana stylafurcata, sp. nov.; (I) Hamusolidia introrsa, sp. nov.

Figures 112-118. Genitalia, Glaberana spadix, sp. nov. 112) Male pygofer, lateral view. 113) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view. 114) Aedeagus and dorsal connective, dorsal view. 115) Style, lateral view. 116) Style, dorsal view. 117) Connective, caudal view. 118) Subgenital plate, ventral view.