Parandanus longistylus
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Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Parandanus
Name
Parandanus longistylus Duan sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Description
Length. Male: 6.8–7.2 mm.
Anterior margin of crown with two dark brown coalescing spots extending around ocelli, disk with an orange spot anterolaterally, its inner area dark brown, a small dark brown spot adjacent to basal angles of eyes. Pronotum with six broad longitudinal orange brown bands (Fig. 1A). Crown of near uniform length, 0.43× as long as distance between eyes, 0.43× as long as median length of pronotum (Fig. 1A).
Male genitalia
Pygofer short, sides rounded apically (Fig. 2A–B). Subgenital plate elongate with lateral margins nearly straight, with approximately 17 narrow macrosetae (Fig. 2C). Style articulating arm short; preapical angle indistinct; apophysis very elongate (Fig. 2D). Aedeagus with pair of subbasal parallel appendages, extending to subapex of shaft (Fig. 2E–G).
Material examined
Holotype: male, Peru: Pasco, 3km N Oxapampa, 1700m, 10°33.20'S, 75°25.55'W, 21 Oct 2002, C.H. Dietrich, merc vapor light, 02–31–1 (INHS). Paratypes: 3 males, same data as holotype.
Etymology
This name is based on the style with a long apophysis.
Remarks
This species is similar to Parandanus paracruciatus in color pattern but differs from this and other species by its very long style apophysis.
Original Description
- Duan, Y; Dietrich, C; Webb, M; Zhang, Y; 2016: Review of the South American leafhopper genus Parandanus (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Deltocephalinae) ZooKeys, (562): 73-83. doi
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