Mosaica, Lee & Emery, 2013

Lee, Young June & Emery, David, 2013, New genera and species of Leptopsaltriini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from India and Tibet, with the descriptions of five new subtribes, Zoosystema 35 (4), pp. 525-535 : 528-529

Mosaica n. gen.

TYPE SPECIES. — Mosaica irregularis n. sp., by present designation.

ETYMOLOGY. — The generic name is the Latin feminine noun mosaica in reference to the mosaic-like wing venation of the type species of this genus, which has additional wing cells by partitioning or malformation of the fore wing ulnar and apical cells.

DIAGNOSIS. — Fore wing ulnar cells apically and apical cells proximally partitioned to form additional cells. Length between bifurcation point into median (M) vein and median 1+2 (M1+2) vein and bifurcation point into M vein and median 3+4 (M3+4) vein of fore wing distinctly less than twice the length between bifurcation point into M vein and M3+4 vein and base of M vein. Nodal line indistinct or absent on fore wing ulnar cell 3 and medial cell. Hind wing without infuscation along bases of apical cells 1, 2, and 3. Posterior margin of male abdominal tergite 3 much wider than mesonotum.

DESCRIPTION

Head including eyes narrower than mesonotum. Inner area of pronotum concolorous with pronotal collar. Lateral pronotal collar not dentate. Posterior pronotal collar very narrow. Wings hyaline, with many infuscations on fore wing. Fore wing ulnar cells apically and apical cells proximally partitioned to form additional cells. Length between bifurcation point into M vein and M1+2 vein and bifurcation point into M vein and M3+4 vein of fore wing distinctly less than twice the length between bifurcation point into M vein and M3+4 vein and base of M vein. Nodal line indistinct or absent on fore wing ulnar cell 3 and medial cell. Hind wing without infuscation along bases of apical cells 1, 2, and 3. Male operculum very small, about as long as wide, scarcely extending beyond posterior margin of sternite II. Male abdomen cylindrical, much longer than head and thorax together. Posterior margin of male abdominal tergite 3 much wider than mesonotum. Timbal cover very short, much wider than long. Male abdominal sternite III with tubercle-like projection on each centrolateral surface. Male pygofer long, elliptical in ventral view. Distal shoulder not pointed. Uncus not bifurcate, short. Basal lobes of pygofer absent. Aedeagus thick.

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