Shivania, Viraktamath, C. A., 2004

Viraktamath, C. A., 2004, A revision of the Varta­Stymphalus generic complex of the leafhopper tribe Scaphytopiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from the Old World, Zootaxa 713, pp. 1-47 : 8-9

Shivania gen. nov.

Type species: Shivania serrata sp. nov.

Medium sized leafhoppers, 6.0–7.0 mm long. Green with yellow green stripes, red spots often running into short stripes on head and thorax, apices of wings fuscous spotted with dark brown (Fig. 23).

Vertex anteriorly triangularly produced; disc strongly depressed; transition between vertex and face angular, carinate, 1.7 to 2.25 times as long as inter­ocular width. Ocelli on anterior margin. Fronto­clypeus strongly ridged in apical 0.4 length, ridge reaching beyond bases of antennae, narrow at antennal pits, widened apically. Ocello­ocular area on face (bounded by frontal sutures mesally, margin of eye laterally, anterior margin of head apically and bases of antennae basally, Fig 22 arrow) wide, about as wide as long. Clypellus widened apically, 0.32 to 0.36 as long as frontoclypeus. Pronotum more than twice (2.25–2.39) as wide as long, 0.66 to 0.77 as long as vertex, with carinate lateral margins. Front wings about 4 times as long as width, apices obliquely truncate, inner anteapical cell open behind. Arrangement of spines on hind tibia R 1 21 1, R2 11, R3 19. Hind basitarsus with five platellae.

Male pygophore narrowed caudally in lateral view, with few macrosetae; caudally snugly fitting with broad based anal segment, caudo­ventral angle may be produced into a membranous process. Anal segments elongate, tenth segment sclerotized dorsally with or without a ventral process. Valve triangular. Subgenital plate triangular, separate, exceeding pygophore in length, covered with long irregularly arranged multiseriate setae. Style with well­developed fingerlike apophysis, transversely rugose. Subapical lobe well­developed. Connective fused with aedeagus, elongate, Y­shaped, arms parallel to and in contact with each other.

Remarks: Shivania lacks extensive orange or red stripes on head, thorax or forewings, the fuscous apical area of forewings extends along inner margin up to claval apex and is spotted with dark brown; male pygophore has an oblique ventral margin thus narrowed caudally, with either a membranous caudo­ventral extension to pygophore or with an anal collar process. The genus resembles Vartalapa gen. nov. (see below) as it shares the fused connective and aedeagus but lacks the ventral paraphysis to aedeagal shaft.

Distribution: Afrotropical region.