Mikewilsonia kunzi, E & M & P, 2019

E, Werner, M, Atlas & P, Western, 2019, A new genus and three new species of Nogodinidae from North Africa (Insecta, Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoromorpha), Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 933-948 : 937

Mikewilsonia kunzi nov.sp.

M a t e r i a l: Holotype male: Southern Morocco, Wadi SE Guelmim, 14.3.1971, R. Remane leg., in coll. OEKO. Paratype female: Maroc Saharien, Foum Zguid (Tata, Anti-Atlas), 28.5.1958, Ch. Rungs, in coll MNHN.

B o d y s i z e: Male 7.8 mm, female 11.1 mm. Only macropterous specimens known.

D e s c r i p t i o n (see also Figs 7 C-9): Metope about 1.5 x longer than wide, broadest part before epistomal suture. Median and sublateral keels present. Head in lateral view slightly produced apically, forming an acute angle. Vertex pentagonal, forming an obtuse angle apically. Vertex about 2.5 times as wide as medially long. Pronotum medially slightly longer than vertex, its anterior margin strongly convex. Mesonotum with three longitudinal keels. Ground colour of body light brown, with many darker areas and dots. Wings with larger dark margins along costal area and two brownish transverse bands in apical third.

Male anal segment basally slender in lateral view, apically with larger triangular lobes on both sides, orientated ventrad. Aedeagus broad, strongly curved upwards in lateral view. Basally two lateral lobes are present. Apically, three pairs of long and thin, zig-zag spines emanate from ventrolateral side and point towards the aedeagus apex.

Female abdomen ventrally straw coloured, only the ovipositor is dark brown throughout. Caudal border of 7th sternite in females with an obtuse-angled incison medially and two obtuse-triangular projections adjacenting laterally.

E t y m o l o g y: The species is dedicated to Gernot Kunz, enthusiastic Auchenorrhyncha researcher and probably the best hopper photographer in the world.

Figures

Fig 7: Philbyella gnezdilovi nov.sp.: holotype male (A); paratype female (B); Mikewilsonia kunzi nov.gen. nov.sp.: holotype male (C), paratype female (D).