Curvimonus gajadantha Viraktamath & Anantha Murthy

Viraktamath, C. A., 2004, A revision of the Varta­Stymphalus generic complex of the leafhopper tribe Scaphytopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Old World, Zootaxa 713, pp. 1-47 : 6-7

Curvimonus gajadantha Viraktamath & Anantha Murthy

Figs 1–10

Curvimonus gajadantha Viraktamath & Anantha Murthy 1999: 40 –42. Holotype ♂, INDIA [UAS, examined].

Green in life, but dried specimens greenish­ochraceous with red stripes on head, thorax, and front wings. Head with lateral margin red anterior to eyes, an irregular stripe along inner margins of eyes orange. Pronotum with four longitudinal reddish orange stripes. Scutellum with two orange stripes. Front wing greenish orange with a stripe on clavus and a reddish median stripe on corium terminating at about 0.75 length reddish (hatched in Fig. 2 ), apical area piceous with a darker spot on outer angle, extreme apex narrowly white in margined. Face with an orange stripe, rest ochraceous. Venter and legs ochraceous.

Male genitalia: Pygophore longer than high, lobe with a sclerotized fingerlike process directed caudad; dorsal margin with a membranous lobe covered with a few hairlike setae. Subgenital plates fused with valve to form a median plate with two short protuberances on caudo­lateral margin, macrosetae confined to lateral area, arranged in oblique irregular rows and with a few hairlike setae on lateral margin. Style robust, apophysis broad at base, gradually narrowed to a fingerlike tip. Connective twice as long as broad at base, arms stout, stem short, broadened caudad, about as long as arms. Aedeagal shaft narrowed distally, with an acute apex, gonopore at midlength on caudal margin.

Female genitalia: as in generic description.

Measurements: Male 6.53 (6.40–6.57) mm long, 1.22 (1.18–1.23) mm wide across eyes and 1.43 (1.38–1.45) mm wide across pronotum. Female 6.96 (6.80–7.00) mm long, 1.24 (1.23–1.28) mm wide across eyes and 1.48 (1.45–1.55) mm wide across pronotum.

Material examined: Holotype ď, INDIA: Meghalaya: Shillong, 3.xi.1981, S. Viraktamath ( UAS). Paratypes: 1ď, 1Ψ, data as for holotype ( UAS).

Remarks: G. gajadantha resembles species of Var ta t op a and Xenovarta but differs in the structure the male genitalia (see remarks under the genus Curvimonus ).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Curvimonus gajadantha Viraktamath and Anantha Murthy. 1. Head and thorax; 2. Front wing; 3. Male genital capsule, lateral view; 4. Caudal lobe of male pygophore; 5. Fused subgenital plates and valve; 6. Style; 7. Connective; 8. Aedeagus, lateral view; 9. Aedeagus, caudal view; 10. Female seventh sternite.