Docalidia longula, Nielson, 2011

Nielson, M. W., 2011, New species in the Neotropical genus Docalidia with a key to known species, notes on distribution, taxonomy and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini) 2952, Zootaxa 2952 (1), pp. 1-86 : 49-52

Docalidia longula , sp. nov.

(Plate IIIF, Figures 176–183 )

Length. Male 8.00–8.20 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Large, robust species. General color of dorsum unicolorous brown, except for pronotum, mesonotum, black; eyes suffused with brown markings (Plate IIIF).

Head broad, distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, about as wide as eye, slightly carinate laterally, slightly divergent basally; eyes large, elongate ovoid; pronotum large, about ¼ times longer than crown, inflated medially; mesonotum large, about 1/3 longer than pronotum; forewings long, broad, venation typical; clypeus broad, lateral margins tapered distally, truncate at transclypeal suture; median longitudinal carina prominent, clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, lateral margins flared distally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view large, triangulate, caudodorsal process robust, caudoventral process reduced to lenticular lobe below base of caudodorsal process ( Fig. 176 ); right subgenital plate long, very broad, setose in basal 1/3 and along ½ of inner lateral margin ( Fig. 177 ); right style long, longer than aedeagus, robust, with row of stout setae from middle to near apex ( Figs. 178, 179 ); aedeagus long, tubular, with very long subapical ventral process, gonopore near middle, exiting ventrally ( Figs. 180, 181 ); connective T-shaped, arms narrow, membrane absent, medial ridge extending beyond anterior margin or arms, stem long, bulbous apically, with small medial process ( Fig. 182 ); dorsal connective long, plate like, broad basally, tapered distally in dorsal view ( Fig. 183 ).

Material examined. Holotype male. PERU: Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata Res. , 30 km. (air), SW Pto. Maldonado, 290 m., 12º50’S. 69º20’W., 10-XI-1982, insect flight trap, R. C. Wilkerson ( NMNH) . Paratype. 1 male, same data as holotype, except 20-29-X-1982 ( MLBM) .

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the long ventral process on the aedeagus.

Remarks. From D. gracilitas ( Nielson, 1986e:759) , longula , sp. nov. can be distinguished by absence of the ventral process of segment X, by the broader subgenital plate with setae on the basal half, and by the row of stylar setae which does not reach the apex of the apophysis.

Figures

FIGURES 176–183. Docalidia longula, sp. nov. (176) pygofer, lateral view; (177) right subgenital plate, ventral view; (178) right style, lateral view; (179) right style, dorsal view; (180) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (181) aedeagus, ventral view; (182) connective, caudal view; (183) dorsal connective, dorsal view.