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Oncopsis caliginosa Anufriev 1967

Description

6. Oncopsis caliginosa Anufriev, 1967

Figs. 24–26, 81–86

Description. Coloration typical (Figs. 24–26), females similar to males or brown, sometimes with almost obsolete dark pattern.

Penis of typical shape, with ventral margin convex or almost straight in side view (Figs. 81–82). Lower appendage of dorsal connective evenly curved upwards, sometimes with slightly expanded or bifurcated tip and with one or two small processes or knobs in middle of dorsal margin. Margins of knobs and the end of the main branch are finely serrated (Figs. 82–84). Style parallel-margined, with blunt tip (Figs. 85–86).

Body length (including tegmina): ♂, 5.2–5.7 mm; ♀, 5.7–6.3 mm.

Distinctly differs from all other species by peculiar shape of lower appendage of dorsal connective and by blunt rounded style tips (acute or angulate in all other species from Russia and Central Asia).

Host. Betula platyphylla and B. davurica.

Distribution. Russia: Southern Maritime Territory, Southern Sakhalin, Kurile Islands (Shikotan, Kunashir); Japan: Honshu (Lauterer & Anufriev, 1969; Hayashi & Higashikawa, 1997).

Notes

Published as part of Tishechkin, Dmitri Yu., 2017, Review of the genus Oncopsis Burmeister, 1838 (Homoptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) of Russia and adjacent countries with description of a new species from Central Asia, pp. 537-558 in Zootaxa 4216 (6) on page 541, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.242421

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Oncopsis
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Anufriev
Species
caliginosa
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Oncopsis caliginosa Anufriev, 1967 sec. Tishechkin, 2017

References

  • Anufriev, G. A. (1967) Notes on the genus Oncopsis Burmeister, 1838 (Homoptera, Auchenorrhyncha) with descriptions of new species from the Soviet Far East. Entomologisk Tidskrift. 88, 174 - 184.
  • Lauterer, P. & Anufriev, G. A. (1969) Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Oncopsis Burm. (Homoptera, Cicadellidae) from China and Far East. Acta Musei Moraviae, 54, 161 - 168.
  • Hayashi, M. & Higashikawa, O. (1997) Homoptera-Auchenorrhyncha and Heteroptera (Insecta, Rhynchota) from Sugadaira, Central Honshu, Japan. Bulletin of Sugadaira Montane Research Center, 14, 15 - 56.