Trinorida timlivana, Meshram, 2019

Meshram, Naresh M., 2019, Leafhopper tribe Coelidiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae) of the Indian subcontinent, Zootaxa 4653 (1), pp. 1-91 : 32-33

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4653.1.1

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persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CD4987FE-4A73-E03D-FF0C-FA5AFCC1FEAD

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scientific name

Trinorida timlivana
status

sp. nov.

Trinorida timlivana View in CoL sp. nov.

Figs. 3 J View FIGURES 3 , 6 J View FIGURES 6 , 9 H View FIGURES 9 , 49 View FIGURES 49 A–H.

Male. Head brown to dark brown. Pronotum dark brown. Mesonotum brown with pale posterior margin. Eyes and ocelli black. Forewing venation dark brown with yellowish tinge. Hind femur apex, tibiae and tarsi dark brown, setae on hind tibia brown to pale yellow. Metasternites, dark brown with pale margins ( Figs. 3 J View FIGURES 3 , 6 J View FIGURES 6 , 9 H View FIGURES 9 ).

Male genitalia. Pygofer triangular, with small, caudoventral digitate process ( Fig. 49 H View FIGURES 49 ). Subgenital plate long, distinctly narrowed in basal 1/3 ( Fig. 49 E View FIGURES 49 ). Style symmetrical, broad basally, apophysis digitate ( Fig. 49 F View FIGURES 49 ). Connective longer than broad at base with prominent median ledge extending to entire length ( Fig. 49 G View FIGURES 49 ). Aedeagus slightly bent at apical 1/3, with three subapical processes, two glabrous distal processes on one side and proximal bifurcate basal process on opposite side, with the inner branch longer than outer one, gonopore distad of proximal process ( Figs. 49 View FIGURES 49 A–D).

Measurements. Male 7.0 mm long, 2.0 mm wide across eyes and 2.1 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Uttarakhand, Dehradun, Timli Forest , 14.vii.2015, N. M. Mesh- ram ( NPC).

Etymology. This species is named after the place of the type locality Timli forest and to be treated as noun in apposition.

Remarks. Trinorida timlivana sp. nov. resembles T. ochrocephala sp. nov. in male genitalia features but differs in the bifid proximal process compared to trifid proximal process in T. ochrocephala . The pygofer in T. timlivana is much narrower in the distal half compared to T. ochraocephala .

NPC

National Pusa Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Trinorida

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