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Collasuyusana bifurcata Nielson 2011, sp. nov.

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Collasuyusana bifurcata, sp. nov.

(Plate 1I, Figs. 61–68)

Length: Male 7.00 mm., female 8.60–8.80 mm.

External morphology. Slender species. General color dark brown to black with numerous small yellow spots on veins of forewings and 2 large irregular shaped markings on costa; head and face dark brown (Plate II). Head distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely angulate, crown broad, about as wide as width of eyes, produced distally about 1/3 of its entire median length, lateral margins slightly carinate, disk depressed medially; eyes large, occupying about 2/3 of entire dorsal area of head, semiglobular; pronotum about as long as median length of crown, surface bullated; mesonotum about as long as median length of pronotum; forewings typical; clypeus elongate, broader basally than apically; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long and clypeus, very broad and inflated basally, narrowed distally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer narrow with 2 caudal processes, caudodorsal process long, broad, with bifid apex, caudoventral process prominent, very long, narrow, extending beyond apex of caudodorsal lobe (Fig. 61); right subgenital plate long, narrow, outer lateral margin expanded, sparsely setose (Fig. 62); style long, nearly as long as aedeagus, distal ½ slightly enlarged with longitudinal striations (Figs. 63, 64); aedeagus long, tubular, base recurved at right angle, prominent spine apically, directed caudally, gonopore subapical (Figs. 65, 66); connective small, Y-shaped, stem very short (Fig. 67); dorsal connective with basal arms enclosing shaft of aedeagus, arms attached basally to subbasal ventral spur of aedeagus (Figs. 65, 66).

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite large, nearly twice as long as penultimate sternite, caudal margin broadly convex, slightly indentate medially (Fig. 68).

Material examined. Holotype male. COLOMBIA: PNN Gorgona Cabaña Cedros, 1º37’N.– 75º6’W., 1950 m., Malaize, 2/18/02–3/7/02, C. Cortes, leg. M. 3037 (IAHC). Paratypes. 4 males, same data as holotype (MLBM, UK); 7 males, Huila, PNN Cueva de los Guacharos, Cabaña Cedros, 1º 37N.– 76º 6’W., 2100 m., Malaise, 2/4/ 2002 – 2/18/2002, C. Cortes, leg. M. 3036 (IAHC); 7 males, 3 females, Valle del Cauca, PNN Farallones de Cali Cgto. La Meseta, 3º34’N.– 76º 40’ W., 1960 m., Malaise, 27/08/2003 – 10/09/2003, S. Sarria & M. Losso leg., (specimen numbers, M. 4542, 4544, 4545, 4546, 4548, 4549, 4551, 4552, some duplications) (IAHC).

Etymology. The name is descriptive for the apical, bifid caudodorsal process of the pygofer.

Remarks. C. bifurcata, sp. nov. is nearest to C. lanceolata, sp. nov. and can be easily separated from all known species by the apical, bifurcate caudodorsal process of the pygofer.

Notes

Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2011, 2953, pp. 1-85 in Zootaxa 2953 on page 18

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Biodiversity

Collection code
IAHC , MLBM
Event date
2002-02-18 , 2003-08-27
Verbatim event date
2002-02-18/04-02 , 2003-08-27/09-10
Scientific name authorship
Nielson
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Collasuyusana
Species
bifurcata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Collasuyusana bifurcata Nielson, 2011