Clorindaia hecaloides Linnavuori

Zahniser, James N., 2021, Revision of the New World leafhopper tribe Faltalini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) and the evolution of brachyptery, Zootaxa 4954 (1), pp. 1-160 : 43

Clorindaia hecaloides Linnavuori

( Figs. 23W , 24 , 27 )

Clorindaia hecaloides Linnavuori, 1975: 51 [original description, illustration, morphology]; Linnavuori & DeLong, 1977: 200 [purported distribution]; Blocker & Fang, 1992: 342 [description, illustration, illustration of purported male, discussion]; Paradell & Remes Lenicov, 2005: 134–136 [description, illustration, distribution, discussion]; Zanol, 2008: 24 [catalogue]; Remes Lenicov & Paradell, 2009: 267–268 [morphology, illustration, distribution, discussion, host plant]; Paradell & Zahniser, 2018: 293–295 [description, illustration, neotype designation, distribution]; Zahniser, 2007 [online catalogue]; Freytag & Gaiani, 2017 [online catalogue]

Diagnosis. C. hecaloides can be distinguished from other species in the genus by the crown length 0.8x or less than interocular width, aedeagus with pair of short apical tooth-like processes not longer than 1.5x median width, aedeagus shaft gracile and slightly asymmetrical, aedeagus with unpaired apical process closely paralleling or overlapping shaft, apex of unpaired process not or only gradually bent caudad and distinctly flared, dorsal side of aedeagal base relatively shallowly excavated, basal half of aedeagal shaft not parallel to caudoventral margin of base and directed more slightly dorsad, and phragma sides in caudal view bent mesad below anal tube and paralleling close to each other throughout length to bulbous base.

Material examined. The material listed in Paradell & Zahniser (2018) was also studied here.

Distribution. This species is known from Argentina (Córdoba, Entre Ríos, and Formosa Provinces).

Remarks. The purported record in Chile based on a parasitized female (Linnavuori & DeLong, 1977) is questionable, as noted in their publication. A lectotype for this, the type species of the genus, was designated by Paradell & Zahniser (2018).

Figures

FIGUIRE 23. Clorindaia cyphora (Q–R, T–V) & Clorindaia hecaloides (S, W), SEM images. (Q) face. (R) detail of face. (S) detail of face, antennal base, fine erect seta on gena. (T) head, pronotum, scutellum, and forewing bases, dorsal view; measurements of median length of crown (a) and length of crown next to eye (b) are illustrated. (U) detail of crown. (V–W) female sternite VII, pygofer, and ovipositor. oc = ocellus.

FIGUIRE 24. Clorindaia hecaloides. (K–P) standard views.

FIGUIRE 27. Distribution of Clorindaia.