Platyretus marginatus Melichar

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

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6235426

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scientific name

Platyretus marginatus Melichar
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Platyretus marginatus Melichar View in CoL

( Figs 13–19 View FIGURES 13 – 19 )

Platyretus marginatus Melichar 1903: 174 View in CoL –175. Distant 1908: 289 –290, Fig. 184. Type Ψ, SRI LANKA [MMB, examined]

Color and external characters as in the generic description.

Male genitalia: Subgenital plates rather rounded laterally and caudally. Style with slightly curved slender apophysis with hair-like setae basally and stout setae apically, preapical lobe poorly developed. Aedeagus similar to previous species, but apex of shaft, with dorsal acute hook-like projection, in lateral view.

Female genitalia: Median lobe of seventh sternite with a strong median concavity.

Measurements: Male 6.2–6.6 mm long, 1.6 mm wide across eyes. Female 6.4–6.6 mm long, 1.6 mm wide across eyes.

Material examined: SRI LANKA: Type, 1 Ψ, ( MMB). Other material: SRI LANKA: 1 ɗ, Peradeniya, i.1905; 1 ɗ, Kala Olya, xii. 1905; 1 Ψ, Central Province, Kandy Distr., Talwatte, 500 m, 3.xi.1995, M. Shaffer ( BMNH).

Remarks: There are a few specimens from India (Karnataka: 1 ɗ, 1 ɗ, 10 Km SE Magadi, 16.viii.1977, C.A. Viraktamath; Maharashtra: 1 ɗ, 2 Ψ, Matheran, 915 m, 23.xi.1977, C.A. Viraktamath (UASB)) that closely resemble specimens of this species from Sri Lanka but have a slightly undulate outer margin of the style apophysis. This species can be recognized from other species of Platyretus by the poorly developed style apophysis.

SRI

Serengetti Research Institute

MMB

Moravske Muzeum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Platyretus

Loc

Platyretus marginatus Melichar

Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin 2008
2008
Loc

Platyretus marginatus

Distant 1908: 289
Melichar 1903: 174
1903
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