Duocrassana longula Pinedo-Escatel, Zahniser & Dietrich

Pinedo-Escatel, J. A., Dietrich, C. H. & Moya-Raygoza, G., 2016, Duocrassana longula, new genus and species of leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from southern Mexico and its relationship to other genera in Athysanini, Zootaxa 4196 (4), pp. 579-588 : 586-587

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DB1AF673-24B2-4724-95E1-8D9858A22763

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6084244

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C687F2-FF91-FFEE-67E0-9457FBB3D2FE

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Plazi

scientific name

Duocrassana longula Pinedo-Escatel, Zahniser & Dietrich
status

sp. nov.

Duocrassana longula Pinedo-Escatel, Zahniser & Dietrich View in CoL , sp. nov.

Description. Body length, ♂ 4.6 mm, ♀ 5.1 mm ( Figs. 16, 18 View FIGURES 15 – 18. D ). Coloration on dorsal structures light brown with minute markings of pale brown, and ventrally black brown. Head, crown with a brown pair of lines close to middle line; posterior crown sides close to eyes with a brown spots in each side. Between ocelli with interrupted weakly brown band at middle, above each ocelli a brown dot with twice its size. Face, frontoclypeus at tip has a transversal broad curve, connected with a medial vertical line, intermediately extended along the frontoclypeus with faint black-brown arcuate lines; clypellus and lora entire black-brown; gena with some marks of black, also on base of lora, clypellus, below eyes, and lateral sides of clypellus. Pronotum and scutellum pale-brown ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15 – 18. D ). Ventral sclerites of thorax pale brown-black. Abdomen entire black unto genital capsule. Genital sclerites brown with black setae. Female same color pattern as male but more intense, except on vertex and ventral sclerites of thorax.

Male genitalia: segment X sclerotized laterally with basal process bow shaped and extended nearly to ventral margin of pygofer ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 7 – 14 ). Pygofer ventral appendage curved dorsad near base but straight through most of length in lateral view ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 7 – 14 ).

Female genitalia: seventh sternite as long as two times the sixth sternite, sides moderately excavated, medially with a bilobed projection ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 7 – 14 ).

Material examined. Holotype ♂ ( CZUG), Mexico : Oaxaca, rt. 190 km # 180 \ La Reforma 800 m \ 16°23’56” N, 95°46’56” W \ 7–Nov–2001 \ C. H. Dietrich \ sweeping \ 01–056–03; Paratypes 1 ♀ ( CZUG), same locality data as holotype GoogleMaps ; 2 ♀ ( INHS), Mexico : Oaxaca, rt. 190 km # 180 \ La Reforma 800 m \ 16°23’56” N, 95°46’29” W \ 6–Nov–2001 \ R. Rakitov \ sweeping \ 01–056–02. GoogleMaps

Etymology. The species epithet refers to the long processes of the male pygofer.

CZUG

Universidad de Guadalajara,Centro de Estudios en Zoologia, Entomologia

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Duocrassana

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