Hecaloidella brevispina, 2021

Xu, Deliang, Webb, Michael D., Shang, Suqin & Zhang, Yalin, 2021, Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species, Zootaxa 4948 (3), pp. 381-403 : 391

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8E0BF97A-D9E1-4F2E-BB63-82A6ED47E5DC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4667680

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/597A878E-FFB6-FF9A-FF66-F388825FF549

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Plazi

scientific name

Hecaloidella brevispina
status

sp. nov.

H. brevispina Zhang & Webb View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 1J View FIGURE 1 , 6E–F View FIGURE 6

Description. Body length (including tegmina), male: 5.4–5.7mm.

Colour as in H. borneoensis .

Male genitalia similar to H. borneoensis but aedeagal shaft moderately long with a short dorsal spine-like process subapically and preatrium long.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Malay Peninsula, S.E. Pahang, Rompin Mining Company railway track, 3.iii.1961, T.C. Maa ( BPBM) . Paratype: 1♂, Malaya Peninsula, Sungei Emas / Johor, 2°24′N, 103°24′E, D.H. Mur- phy ( BMNH) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. This species is named for the single subapical spine on the aedeagus.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished by the single small dorsal subapical spine on the aedeagus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Hecaloidella

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