Published March 22, 2021 | Version v1
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Hecaloidella caudospina Zhang & Webb 2021, sp. nov.

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China & 18710305867 @ 163. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0106 - 5570
  • 2. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, ME 15 6 QX, UK & mdwebb 04 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1312 - 6142
  • 3. Biological Engineering Laboratory of Crop Diseases and Pests of Gansu Province, College of Plant Protection, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730070, China & shangsq @ gsau. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9376 - 0735
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Protection Resources and Pest Management, Ministry of Education, Entomological Museum, College of Plant Protection, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China & yalinzh @ nwsuaf. edu. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1204 - 9181

Description

H. caudospina Zhang & Webb sp. nov.

Figs. 1B, 4A–E

Description. Body length (including tegmina), male: 4.8–5.8mm.

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.

Material examined. Holotype: ♂, Indonesia, Sulawesi Utara, Dumoga-Bone National Park, Clark’s Camp, at light, 1140m, 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).

Etymology. Named after the ventral spine on the caudal extension of the connective.

Remarks. See Remarks under H. nudapenis.

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 381-403 in Zootaxa 4948 (3) on pages 386-389, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4629100

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Hecaloidella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Hemiptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zhang & Webb
Species
caudospina
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hecaloidella caudospina Webb & Zhang, 2021