Lamtoana exigua Cao & Dietrich & Dmitriev & Zhang 2020, sp. nov.
- 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, CN- 712100, P. R. China & caoyh @ illinois. edu; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0515 - 0767 & Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA
- 2. Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA & chdietri @ illinois. edu
- 3. Illinois Nature History Survey, Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1816 S Oak St., Champaign, IL, US- 61820, USA & arboridia @ gmail. com
- 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, National Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, CN- 712100, P. R. China & yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1204 - 9181
Description
3. Lamtoana exigua Cao & Dmitriev sp. nov.
(Figs 20, 27 i–l)
Description. Body off white, heavily marked with dark brown (specimen preserved in ethanol before examination). Vertex with large brown patch apically at transition from vertex to face, with pair of brown patches medially, near to each other; tip of anteclypeus darkened. Pronotum with middle anterior margin and central part brown. Basal triangles of mesonotum dark. Forewing with inner margin of clavus darkened. (Figs 27 i–l)
Male abdominal apodemes 2S (Fig. 27a) extended to middle of sternite IV.
Pygofer dorsal appendage (Figs 27b, c) with apical part short, apex blunt; ventral appendage (Figs 27b, d) very short, germ-like. Subgenital plate (Figs 27b, f) with about 4 macrosetae. Style (Fig. 27g) with pointed, tooth-like process extended form subapical inner edge of apical part, upper part of preapical lobe weakly sclerotized and serrated. Connective (Fig. 27h) with manubrium wide and long, lateral arms thick and short. Aedeagus (Figs 27i, j) with apical processes moderately long, extended away from shaft in caudal view; dorsal apodeme well developed, widened in caudal view.
Measurement. Male length 3.50mm.
Material examined. Holotype: ♂, UGANDA, Kibale National Park, Kanyawara, Makerere University Bio-logical Field Station, 1587m, 0º33.408'N, 30º22.603'E, 30.vii–05.viii.2005, Malaise trap, degraded mid-altitude Rainforest, coll. S.van Noort (IMC).
Etymology. The new specific epithet is derived from Latin adjective “ exiguus ” which means short, small, referring to the short pygofer ventral appendage.
Diagnosis. This species can be distinguished from the other species the genus by the shortened pygofer ventral appendage, presence of a tooth-like process on the style and by the well-developed dorsal apodeme.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2005-07-30
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-07-30/08-05
- Scientific name authorship
- Cao & Dietrich & Dmitriev & Zhang
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Lamtoana
- Species
- exigua
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lamtoana exigua Cao & Dmitriev, 2020