Papuakutara robustipenis, Lu & Webb & Zhang, 2018

Lu, Lin, Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, A new leafhopper genus of subtribe Paraboloponina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini), with description of two new species from Papua New Guinea, Zootaxa 4521 (2), pp. 281-286 : 286

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.9

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:85AC8A36-1287-4AE9-9E49-958ABDBB3ADB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5986886

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/FE220C47-2726-A877-22F1-FD43FBCBD0C5

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scientific name

Papuakutara robustipenis
status

sp. nov.

Papuakutara robustipenis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 2 View FIGURE 2 A–S)

Description. Length (including tegmen). Male: 5.9 mm.

Colour and external features as in generic description, forewing with brownish streak in each cell. Fore tibia with dorsal macrosetae arrangement of rows AD and PD 2+4.

Male abdominal apodemes as in figures 2Q–S. 2 nd acrotergite with trunk horizontal; neck slender. 1 st sternal apodeme with posterior lobes convergent distally. 2 nd sternal apodeme with posterior lobes reduced.

Male genitalia. Style with apophysis narrowly foot-shaped, preapical lobe distinct. Aedeagus robust, shaft evenly curved dorsally, cylindrical basally, laterally compressed distally and very broad distally in lateral view; elongate ventral process from socle similar in length to shaft, twisted to one side and tapered to acute apex.

Material examined. Holotype: male, Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province, Wau, Wau Ecological Institute, 12–14.vii.1983, S.E. & P.M. Miller, 1200m, Montane Forest ( USNM).

Etymology. The specific epithet “ robustipenis ” refers to the robust aedeagus.

Remarks. This species differs from P. ficus by the characters indicated in the key.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Deltocephalinae

Tribe

Drabescini

SubTribe

Paraboloponina

Genus

Papuakutara

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