Docalidia cirra, 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 : 25-28

Docalidia cirra , sp nov.

(Plate 1H, Figs. 57–65 )

Length. Male 6.70 mm., female unknown.

External morphology. Moderately large, robust species. General color or dorsum concolorous black throughout except translucent apex of forewing, yellow crown and grey eyes (Plate 1H); face black.

Head broad, distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, about as wide as eye, produced distally about ¼ of entire length, foveate on each side of middle; eyes large, elongateovoid; pronotum about as long as crown, surface bullated; mesonotum nearly twice as long as pronotum; forewings long, broad, venation as in description of genus; clypeus long, broad, lateral margins broadly convex, median longitudinal carina distinctive; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, broad, median longitudinal ridge inflated in basal half, lateral margins divergent apically.

Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view subtriangulate, caudodorsal process long, robust, truncate apically, caudoventral process short, sharply pointed apically, small truncate lobe between processes ( Fig. 57 ); segment X moderately long with short ventral process, process hooked distally ( Fig. 58 ); right subgenital plate long, broad, glabrous ( Fig. 59 ); right style, very long, longer than aedeagus, in dorsal view narrow throughout, in lateral view distal half broadly expanded, with inner lateral margin compacted with spongy material, apex setaceous ( Figs. 60, 61 ); aedeagus in lateral view very narrow throughout, sinuate, with long, hair-like subapical process directed basally ( Fig. 62 ), in dorsal view tubular, gonopore submedial, exiting laterally ( Fig. 63 ); connective T-shaped, arms curved distally, membrane absent, stem moderately long, bifurcate in distal half ( Fig. 64 ); dorsal connective moderately long, broad basally (65).

Material examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: Vaupés, R. N. Mosiro Itajura (Capari), Centro Ambiental , 1º4’S.69º31”W., 60 m., Red 1/20/03-2/1/03, M. Sharkey & D. Arias, Leg., M. 3387 (HB) . Paratype. 1 male, same data as holotype except M.3386 ( MLBM) .

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the hair-like, ventral aedeagal process.

Remarks. This species is nearest to D. gracilis ( Nielson, 1979b: 260) and D. unca ( Nielson, 1982h: 291) in aedeagal features but can be distinguished by the configuration of the caudal processes of the pygofer, by the lack of spines on the style and the hair-like, ventral aedeagal process.

Figures

FIGURES 57–65. Docalidia cirra, sp. nov. (57) pygofer, lateral view; (58) segment X, lateral view; (59) right subgenital plate, ventral view; (60) right style, lateral view; (61) right style, dorsal view; (62) aedeagus and dorsal connective, lateral view; (63) aedeagus, dorsal view; (64) connective, caudal view; (65) dorsal connective, dorsal view.