Parandanus longistylus Duan

Duan, Yani, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, Micael D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the South American leafhopper genus Parandanus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae), ZooKeys 562, pp. 73-83 : 75

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Cicadellidae

Parandanus longistylus Duan sp. n. Figs 1, 2

Description.

Length. Male: 6.8-7.2 mm.

Anterior margin of crown with two dark brown coalescing spots extending around ocelli, disk with an orange spot anterolaterally, its inner area dark brown, a small dark brown spot adjacent to basal angles of eyes. Pronotum with six broad longitudinal orange brown bands (Fig. 1A).

Crown of near uniform length, 0.43 × as long as distance between eyes, 0.43 × as long as median length of pronotum (Fig. 1A).

Male genitalia.

Pygofer short, sides rounded apically (Fig. 2 A–B). Subgenital plate elongate with lateral margins nearly straight, with approximately 17 narrow macrosetae (Fig. 2C). Style articulating arm short; preapical angle indistinct; apophysis very elongate (Fig. 2D). Aedeagus with pair of subbasal parallel appendages, extending to subapex of shaft (Fig. 2 E–G).

Material examined.

Holotype: male, Peru: Pasco, 3km N Oxapampa, 1700m, 10°33.20'S, 75°25.55'W, 21 Oct 2002, C.H. Dietrich, merc vapor light, 02 –31– 1 (INHS). Paratypes: 3 males, same data as holotype.

Etymology.

This name is based on the style with a long apophysis.

Remarks.

This species is similar to Parandanus paracruciatus in color pattern but differs from this and other species by its very long style apophysis.