Hecaloidella caudospina Zhang & Webb 2021
- Dataset
- Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Xu, Deliang, Webb, Michael D., Shang, Suqin, Zhang, Yalin (2021): Review of the Pacific leafhopper genus Hecaloidella (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae Deltocephalinae: Selenocephalini) with description of sixteen new species. Zootaxa 4948 (3): 381-403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.4
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadellidae
- genus
- Hecaloidella
- species
- Hecaloidella caudospina
description
Figs. 1 B, 4 A – E Description. Body length (including tegmina), male: 4.8 – 5.8 mm. Stramineous to sordid yellow. Vertex anteriorly orange with a small brown spot each side of midline. Face with variable brown marking dorsally. Forewing veins yellowish. Male genitalia similar to H. nudapenis but caudal extension of connective with a long ventral process and ventral process of aedeagus shorter.
discussion
Remarks. See Remarks under H. nudapenis.
etymology
Etymology. Named after the ventral spine on the caudal extension of the connective.
materials_examined
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, Clark’s Camp, at light, 1140 m, J. H. Martin, iv. 1985, RESL-Project Wallace, NHMUK 010591767 (BMNH). Other material. 1 ♀, same data as holotype except v. 1985; 1 ♀ 1? (abdomen missing), Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, ii. 1985, RESL-Project Wallace (BMNH).