Togoda excisa, Gnezdilov, 2025

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2025, Review of the genus Togoda Melichar, 1906 (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Fulgoroidea, Tropiduchidae), with descriptions of three new species from tropical Africa and Madagascar, Zoosystema 47 (23), pp. 473-488 : 478-479

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a23
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17259629
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scientific name	Togoda excisa
status	sp. nov.

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Togoda excisa n. sp.

( Figs 2C, D View FIG ; 4C, D View FIG ; 6C, D View FIG ; 9 View FIG )

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TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Central African Republic • ♂; “ Boukoko / Rep. Centrafric. [print] / 20 IV.1967 [hand written in ink] / Michael Boulard [print]“ [blue] // “MoLoFo” [hand written in ball pen] // “Museum Paris / MNHN(EH) / 16569” [print, white]; MNHN.

Paratype. Central African Republic • ♀; “ Boukoko –RCA [print] / 30-1-1969 [hand written in ink] / Michael Boulard [print]” [blue] // “Museum Paris / MNHN(EH) / 16568 [print, white]”; MNHN .

DIAGNOSIS. — Coryphe-metope margin smooth, without keel. Metopial proboscis deeply notched frontally. Male anal tube deeply concave apically in dorsal view. Aedeagus narrow, with two long subapical processes.

ETYMOLOGY. — Species name referring to deeply concave apically male anal tube.

DISTRIBUTION. — Southwestern Central African Republic ( Lobaye Prefecture).

DESCRIPTION

Structure ( Figs 2C, D View FIG ; 4C, D View FIG ; 6C, D View FIG )

Coryphe twice as wide as long medially, with weak median carina and nearly straight anterior margin ( Fig. 4C View FIG ). Metope densely covered with pustules ( Fig. 6D View FIG ). Coryphe-metope margin smooth, without keel ( Fig. 6C View FIG ). Metopial proboscis deeply notched frontally ( Fig. 6D View FIG ). Diameter of each eye nearly as wide as metope. Post- and anteclypeus with tiny median carina. Fore wings large and wide, with 1/3 of its length behind apex of clavus ( Fig. 4D View FIG ). Pcu joint A 1 in apical fourth of clavus. Clavus long, 2/3 of wing length. Basal cell narrow. Radius and median running from the same point on basal cell, both firstly furcating closely to basal cell in basal wing third. Forewing vein branching sequence: R 5-7; M 13-16, M 1 and M 2 furcating before wing middle and again apically; CuA 2, furcating after M in basal wing third. Legs not flattened neither foliated. Hind tibia with ten spines apically. First metatarsomere with two latero-apical and five intermediate spines arranged in an arc.

Coloration ( Fig. 4C, D View FIG )

Coryphe yellowish light brown. Metope brown to dark brown. Head laterally dark brown to black above antenna and light brown below it. Scapi and pedicels brown. Postclypeus light brown to brown frontally. Anteclypeus yellow. Rostrum yellow, with black apex. Pro- and mesonotum brown to dark brown. Fore wings dark brown to black. Basal process of forewing precostal margin yellowish light brown to dark brown. Fore and middle coxae and hind trochanters brown. Fore femora and tibiae yellowish brown. Fore and middle tarsi brown. Middle femora with brown stripes in female. Third tarsomeres and claws brown. Apices of leg spines black. Female abdominal sternites light yellow except black sternite VII. Hind margins of gonoplacs and anterior connective laminae of gonapophyses VIII dark brown to black.

Male terminalia ( Fig. 9 View FIG )

Pygofer elongated dorso-ventrally, with hind margins deeply concave in their basal thirds (in lateral view) ( Fig. 9A View FIG ). Anal tube elongated, nearly twice as long as wide medially, convex laterally and deeply concave apically (in dorsal view) ( Fig. 9B, C View FIG ). Anal column small and wide. Penis narrow ( Fig. 9D, E, F View FIG ). Phallobase short, 1/3 of aedeagus length, symmetric. Aedeagus with denticles in its proximal half and with two long narrow subapical processes directed downwards – one on left side ( Fig. 9D, E, c View FIG ) and one – on right side, almost dorsally ( Fig. 9D, E, F, b View FIG ). Style with weakly convex hind margin and large apical tooth ( Fig. 9H, G View FIG , at). Connective with small elongate cup ( Fig. 9D View FIG ).