Paraportanus marica Felix & Mejdalani, 2016, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Felix, Márcio
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Paraportanus
Paraportanus marica

description: Paraportanus marica sp. nov.
(Figs 9–14)
Diagnosis. Pygofer (Fig. 11) acutely produced posterodorsally; aedeagus (Figs 13, 14) with pair of short ventroapical processes, laterally divergent.
Measurements (mm). Male holotype: body length 5.43; crown length 0.48; transocular width 1.33; interocular width 0.59; maximum pronotal width 1.38; forewing length 4.55.
Description. Head (Figs 9, 10) with median length of crown slightly more than 8/10 interocular width and slightly less than 4/10 transocular width. Pronotum (Figs 9, 10) with width slightly greater than transocular width. Forewings with three closed anteapical cells; median cell longer than inner and outer ones. Hind legs with femoral setal formula 2:2:1; length of basal tarsomere similar to combined length of two succeeding tarsomeres.
Male genitalia. Pygofer (Fig. 11), in lateral view, well produced posteriorly; posterior margin obliquely truncate with short dorsal projection; ventral margin with long, slender acute process turned posterodorsally, extending slightly beyond projection; dorsomedian portion of pygofer with group of long macrosetae; irregular longitudinal row of minute macrosetae on median portion of disc. Valve (Fig. 12) broad, subrectangular, posterior margin broadly convex. Subgenital plates (Fig. 12) long, extending posteriorly slightly beyond pygofer apex; narrowed on apical half; apex rounded; ventral longitudinal row of long macrosetae; outer lateral and apical areas with long slender macrosetae densely arranged and some small macrosetae. Style (Fig. 13) long and narrow, extending posteriorly much beyond connective apex; apical portion broad in lateral view; preapical lobe well produced; apex long and acute, curved outwards, with minute subapical tooth. Connective (Figs 13, 14) Y-shaped in ventral view; arms moderately long; stalk short, with median keel. Aedeagus (Figs 13, 14) long and narrow; dorsal apodeme conspicuous, slender; apical portion of shaft broadened; ventroapical margin produced, with pair of short divergent processes.
Color. Dorsum (Figs 9, 10) mostly brown with numerous pale yellow to ivory dots and small marks. Crown (Figs 9, 10) brown mottled with pale yellow to ivory elliptical areas; two pairs of ivory elliptical spots, anterior one touching outer margin of ocelli, posterior one near posterior coronal margin. Ocelli red. Eyes brown. Pronotum (Figs 9, 10) pale brown mottled with pale yellow elliptical marks; pair of irregular small ivory maculae posterior to eyes. Mesonotum (Figs 9, 10) mostly ivory with pair of irregular anterolateral brown areas. Forewings (Fig. 9) translucent; veins mostly dotted with pale brown and white small areas; clavus with small ivory basal mark and two transcommissural ivory maculae bordered by brown, located on apex of claval veins; corium with basal veins of apical cells bordered by pale brown, apex fumose. Face with ground color yellow to brownish-yellow; frons dorsally continuing dotted pattern of crown; frontogenal sutures bordered by brown along a short area ventrally to antennal pits; upper portion of genae with yellow macula behind eyes; apical portion of labium pale brown. Thoracic sclerites mostly pale yellow laterally and ventrally. Legs pale yellow with brown areas.
Female unknown.
Type material. Brazil. Holotype: male, “ Restinga de \ Maricá—RJ \ 19-VII-1985 \ (Arm. Luminosa) [light trap]” (DZRJ).
Etymology. The specific epithet, marica, refers to the type locality, Restinga de Maricá, a sandy coastal plain in Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil.
Remarks. Paraportanus marica has the male genital structures very similar to those of Paraportanus eburatus (Kramer, 1964), P. elegans (Kramer, 1961) and P. longicornis (Osborn, 1923). The pygofer of these species is posterodorsally produced and ventrally there is a long, acute slender process that is dorsally directed (Fig. 11; Kramer 1964: fig. 8; Kramer 1961: fig. 12; Linnavuori 1959: fig. 18 D). However, the new species has an acute projection dorsally (Fig. 11) instead of a rounded short lobe. The aedeagi of P. eburatus, P. elegans and P. longicornis are similar to that of the new species. They are long and broadened apically, with a pair of short processes ventrally (Figs 13, 14; Kramer 1964: fig. 7; Kramer 1961: fig. 9; Linnavuori 1959: fig. 18 B). In P.
elegans and P. longicornis the processes are lamellar, while in P. m a r i c a and P. eburatus they are slender. However, the new species has the aedeagal processes shorter and laterally divergent (Figs 13, 14) when compared with those of P. eburatus.
description: Published as part of Felix, Márcio & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2016, Two new species of Portanini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Aphrodinae) from Southeastern Brazil, pp. 399-406 in Zootaxa 4196 (3) on pages 402-403, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/168108