Tinocripus sinuatus, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, 2953, Zootaxa 2953, pp. 1-85 : 22

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5288298

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/27115005-FFE0-785F-6FEE-1F92FBA47EB2

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Tinocripus sinuatus
status

sp. nov.

Tinocripus sinuatus View in CoL sp. nov.

( Plate 2E, Figs. 100–106)

Length. Male 7.60 mm; female unknown.

External morphology. Slender species. General color of dorsum black, several small yellow spots scattered on forewings, large yellow spot subapically on costa; face yellow ( Plate 2E). Head narrower than pronotum, anterior margin acutely angulate; crown broad, slightly wider than width of eyes, produced distally about 1/3 entire median length of crown, lateral margins distinctly carinate, disk depressed; eyes large, elongate-ovoid; pronotum about as long as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum slightly longer than pronotum; forewings typical; clypeus elongate, narrow throughout, slightly inflated apically, broad basally; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, very broad and inflated basally, constricted medially.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view narrow with 2 very long, moderately robust caudal processes, caudodorsal process broad basally and curved subbasally, caudoventral process broad throughout ( Fig. 100); left subgenital plate long, sinuate, expanded and profusely setose on outer lateral margin at apical ¾ ( Fig. 101); style as long as aedeagus, narrow along middle 1/3, expanded and striate in distal 1/3 ( Figs. 102, 103); aedeagus long, very narrow, sinuate in lateral view ( Fig. 104), in dorsal view, small, curved digitate process apically ( Fig. 105); connective small, Y-shaped, stem absent ( Fig. 106); dorsal connective long, narrow, base with shallow bifurcation, bifurcation attached to subbasal shaft of aedeagus ( Fig. 104).

Material examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: Cagueta , San Jose de Fragua, 1º 20’ N.– 76º 6’ W., 1300 m., Malaise, 9/9/00–9/13/00, E. Gonzalez leg., M594 ( IAHC). GoogleMaps

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the configuration of the aedeagus.

Remarks. T. sinuatus , sp. nov. is somewhat unique for its acutely angulate head and narrow, sinuate aedeagus. The configuration of the aedeagus will separate the species from all others in the genus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Tinocripus

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