Platyretus javanicus Viraktamath & Webb

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2008, A review of the Oriental grassland leafhopper genus Platyretus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), Zootaxa 1696, pp. 37-47 : 41

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.180717

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235428

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/58776B2B-9C6E-8B21-FF4B-5DB9FE95552A

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Plazi

scientific name

Platyretus javanicus Viraktamath & Webb
status

sp. nov.

Platyretus javanicus Viraktamath & Webb View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs 20–26 View FIGURES 20 – 26 )

Color and external characters as in generic description.

Male genitalia: Pygophore rather triangular, with distal narrow lobe, dorsal margin with setae in caudal half, setae on lobe stouter. Subgenital plate with semicircular lateral margin, with submarginal row of long setae. Apical apophysis of style expanded distally, thereafter abruptly tapered to narrowly rounded apex, ventral margin with stout setae as in P. gangeticus . Aedeagal shaft with dorsal marginal ridge, distally concave, shaft more cylindrical with large gonopore.

Measurements: Male 6.0 mm long, 1.5 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined: INDONESIA: Holotype ɗ, Java, Baluran N.P. ca 600m, 16-19.iv.1996, R. Dajiek leg ( MMB); 1Ψ, same data as Holotype ( MMB).

Remarks: This species can be distinguished by its peculiar shape of the style and slightly excavated apex of the aedeagus.

MMB

Moravske Muzeum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Platyretus

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