Signoretia kintendela
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Genus: Signoretia
Name
Signoretia kintendela Takiya & Dietrich sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Body length
Holotype, 7.4 mm.
Description
Crown (Fig. 13, 14) elongate, median length approximately six-tenths of interocular and half of transocular width; median longitudinal carina well developed. Male pygofer (Fig. 34) with ventral appendage short, spiniform, produced posteriorly beyond pygofer lobe apex. Valve short, rectangular. Subgenital plate (Fig. 34) extended posteriorly beyond pygofer lobe apex by approximately one-third lobe length, with numerous long, fine setae distributed evenly over entire length of dorsum. Connective (Fig. 35) Y-shaped; without dorsal median keel or median anterior lobe. Style (Fig. 28) slender, tapering towards apex; apex directed laterally, with several denticuli preapically. Aedeagus (Figs 35, 36) with ventral paraphysis-like structure with pair of elongate, recurved distal processes expanded preapically; dorsal part without sclerotized apodemes, consisting only of shaft, shaft strongly compressed, extended posterad, abruptly bent dorsad in distal third, distal part sinuate. Anal tube (Fig. 34) segment X with pair of posterolateral lobes each bearing small spine and several denticuli and at base with separately articulated robust process with pygofer, extended ventrad and terminating in anteriorly directed spine.
Coloration
Stramineous to white (Figs 14, 15). Crown (Fig. 14) with paired black markings at base of crown and paired maculae at apex of crown. Etymology. The specific epithet, “kintendela”, means “cicada” in Kongo language (Bentley 1895[1]).
Notes
Signoretia kintendela sp. n. shares with other members of the pacifica group (Linnavuori 1978[2]) the fusion of the aedeagal shaft to the paraphyses-like structure consisting of the robust and sclerotized paired basal aedeagal appendages and elongate preatrium. If the robust process interpreted herein as arising from the membrane between the anal tube and pygofer lobe was viewed as an anal tube appendage by Linnavuori (1978)[2], then in the pacifica group, the new species is more similar to Signoretia congoensis and Signoretia augur because these species share a single pair of processes at base of the anal tube. Nevertheless, the new species can be distinguished from these and all other Signoretia by the shorter ventrocaudal processes of the pygofer lobe and very long and slender rami of basal appendages with sinuous and foliaceous apex.
Type material
Male holotype, “Rep. of Congo: Dept Pool;\ Iboubikro; Lesio-Loun Pk.\ 3°16.196'S, 15°38.267'E\ 330m, malaise trap, A138\ 23.x.2008, Braet & Sharkey”, INHS.
Original Description
- Takiya, D; Dietrich, C; Viraktamath, C; 2013: The unusual Afrotropical and Oriental leafhopper subfamily Signoretiinae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae): taxonomic notes, new distributional records, and description of two new Signoretia species ZooKeys, 319: 303-323. doi
Other References
- ↑ Bentley W (1895) Appendix to the dictionary and grammar of the kongo language, as spoken at San Salvador, the Ancient Capital of the Old Kongo Empire, West Africa. Baptist Missionary Society & Trubner & Co., London, 721–1051.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Linnavuori R (1978) Revision of the African Cicadellidae (subfamilies Nioniinae, Signoretiinae and Drabescinae) (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha). Annales Entomologici Fennici 44: 33–48.
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