Docalidia rondoniensis, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, New species in the Neotropical genus Docalidia with a key to known species, notes on distribution, taxonomy and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini) 2952, Zootaxa 2952 (1), pp. 1-86 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5286453

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E70787A4-FFB5-E15E-FF5D-E1D6CC958BC7

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scientific name

Docalidia rondoniensis
status

sp. nov.

Docalidia rondoniensis View in CoL , sp. nov.

(Plate IVA, Figs. 209–217 View FIGURES 209–217 )

Length. Male 9.00 mm., female unknown

External morphology. Large, robust species. General color of dorsum dark brown throughout except eyes black (Plate IVA), face light brown with black markings.

Head broad, much narrower than pronotum, anterior margin rounded; crown broad, distinctly wider than eye, lateral margins slightly convergent basally, pronotum longer than crown, surface bullated, mesonotum large, about 1/4 longer than pronotum; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins convex, median longitudinal carina distinct; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrow, apex flared.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view large, narrowly triangulate, caudodorsal process long, broad basally, tapered distally, caudoventral process reduced to small lenticular lobe below base of caudodorsal process ( Fig. 209 View FIGURES 209–217 ); segment X with globulate ventral process, process spiculate ventrally ( Fig. 210 View FIGURES 209–217 ); right subgenital plate large, broadly oblanceolate, glabrous ( Fig. 211 View FIGURES 209–217 ); right style very long, much longer than aedeagus, robust, small triangulate lobe laterally near middle of apophysis, 2 rows of fine, short setae in distal 1/8 ( Figs. 212, 213 View FIGURES 209–217 ); aedeagus, long, narrow, tubular, slightly inflated medially in ventral view, tapered distally, ventral process near middle of shaft, gonopore submedial on ventral margin ( Figs. 214, 215 View FIGURES 209–217 ); connective T-shaped, arms narrow, apex abruptly curved anteriorly, membrane absent, medial ridge short, stem short with narrow narrow process distally ( Fig. 216 View FIGURES 209–217 ); dorsal connective moderately long, strapped shape, base broad, tapered distally ( Fig. 217 View FIGURES 209–217 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL: Rondonia, 62, km. SE Ariquemes, 7–18 Nov 1995, W. J. Hansen ( MNRJ).

Etymology. This species is dedicated to the state of Rondonia, Brazil.

Remarks. From D. ampla ( Nielson, 1990:231) to which it has similar style and pygofer, rondoniensis , sp. nov. can be separated by the globulate ventral process of segment X, presence of a triangulate lobe near the middle of the stylar apophysis and the medial position of the aedeagal ventral process.

MNRJ

Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Docalidia

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