Sudra manipurensis Viraktamath & Yeshwanth 2023
- Dataset
- Leafhopper subfamily Hylicinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in the Indian subcontinent with description of new species
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Viraktamath, C. A., Yeshwanth, H. M. (2023): Leafhopper subfamily Hylicinae (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in the Indian subcontinent with description of new species. Zootaxa 5319 (4): 451-500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.4.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.4.1
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadellidae
- genus
- Sudra
- species
- Sudra manipurensis
description
Figs 7 C, D, 10 C, 12 H, 14 J – L, 15 G, 23 A – G Diagnosis. Very similar to S. notanda but with male pygofer ventral process less strongly sinuate, aedeagus with atrium as long as shaft in lateral view, shaft more robust with rounded apex and strongly concave ventral surface in lateral view. Description. Coloration similar to that in S. notanda. Pronotum with longitudinal rows of dark brown hair giving an appearance of longitudinal stripes. Pronotum 1.6 × as long as crown medially, 2.1 × as wide across posterolateral angles as across anterior margin and mesonotum 1.2 × as long as pronotum, either reaching or slightly exceeding claval apex. Male genitalia. Pygofer lobe about 1.5 × as long as wide in lateral view more or less rectangular, posterior margin with four tooth-like sclerotized structure each giving rise to a thin seta, ventral process very broad at base, then narrowed in basal 0.33, in distal 0.66 widened with ventral rounded lobe and abruptly narrowed and extended posteriorly in a thin distally narrowed process exceeded to proximal 0.75 length of pygofer lobes in lateral view. Subgenital plates triangular with convex lateral lobes, about 2 × as long as wide at midlength. Style less sclerotized, with rounded short apophysis about reaching apex of connective in dorsal view. Connective broad and pigmented in anterior half, then suddenly constricted, and again widened toward distal end and distally bilobed and wider than at anterior end. Aedeagus with elongated atrium about as long as shaft, dorsal apodeme short, shaft narrower at base, directed dorsally, widened distally, distal end rounded, dorsal surface almost straight, ventral surface strongly sinuate, gonopore apical on ventral surface. Measurements. Male 12.6 mm long, 2.0 mm wide across eyes and 4.0 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Material examined. INDIA: Manipur: HOLOTYPE ♁, Manipur: Pallel, Sinam, 1198 m, 21. viii. 2014, Prathapan & Shameem Coll. (UASB).
discussion
Remarks. The four known species of Sudra are very similar externally with minor differences in the anterior projection of the head. However, they differ in the structure of the male genitalia, especially in the shape of the male ventral pygofer process, relative proportion of aedeagal shaft and atrium and shape and angle of the aedeagal shaft.