Hecaloidella caudospina, 2021

Xu, Deliang, Webb, Michael D., Shang, Suqin & Zhang, Yalin, 2021, Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species, Zootaxa 4948 (3), pp. 381-403 : 386-389

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.4

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8E0BF97A-D9E1-4F2E-BB63-82A6ED47E5DC

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4629120

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/597A878E-FFB9-FF98-FF66-F1E285B0F26A

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scientific name

Hecaloidella caudospina
status

sp. nov.

H. caudospina Zhang & Webb View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 1B View FIGURE 1 , 4A–E View FIGURE 4

Description. Body length (including tegmina), male: 4.8–5.8mm.

Stramineous to sordid yellow. Vertex anteriorly orange with a small brown spot each side of midline. Face with variable brown marking dorsally. Forewing veins yellowish.

Male genitalia similar to H. nudapenis but caudal extension of connective with a long ventral process and ventral process of aedeagus shorter.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, Clark’s Camp , at light, 1140m, J.H. Martin, iv.1985, RESL-Project Wallace, NHMUK 010591767 ( BMNH).

Other material. 1♀, same data as holotype except v.1985 ; 1♀ 1? (abdomen missing), Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, ii.1985, RESL-Project Wallace ( BMNH) .

Etymology. Named after the ventral spine on the caudal extension of the connective.

Remarks. See Remarks under H. nudapenis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Hecaloidella

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