Microledrida virida Caldwell 1945
Creators: name: Haas, Matthé Cornelis De
name: Bartlett, Charles R.
name: Hendrix, Solomon V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cixiidae
Microledrida
Microledrida virida

description: Microledrida virida Caldwell, 1945
(Figs. 15, 16)
Material examined. Types. Holotype: “M.F. 794 / Lake Peten / XI-12-’25 Guat. // Microledrida / HOLOTYPE / virida [red paper] // JSCaldwell / Collection / 1959 // Microledrida ♀ / virida / holotype / Caldwell ‘1943 [handwritten] // UDCC_TCN 00102489 [2d barcode label]” (1♀, USNM).
Additional material: Belize, Cayo District, nr. Teakettle Bank, Pook’s Hill, 17 09.257M, 88 51.091W, 279ft, 6.VII.2003,CRBartlett(1♂, 1♀, UDCC). Mexico, Veracruz, 9mi N.Tempoal,50’[elevation], 29.XII.1963, [L.]& C.W. O’Brien (3♂, 1♀, USNM); Campeche, 13.8 miles E Escarcega, 22.VIII.2013, Schaffner, J. Weaver; T. P. Friedlander, Catalog X0597485 (1♀, TAMU).
Amended diagnosis. Vertex bearing conspicuous pattern of three reddish-orange transverse stripes (the first two medially incomplete; Figs. 15A) alternating with pale greenish-blue. Face largely uniform tan (Figs. 15C). Pronotum bearing anterior transverse reddish-orange stripe trailed by pale greenish-blue (Figs. 15A). Rest of body shades of tan and brown. Forewings mainly of weak brown infuscation with dark brown markings in clavus, along nodus in leading margin of wing and proximal portion of remigium; apical cells each with faint brownish spots near middle.
Amended description. Male terminalia. Pygofer in lateral view broadest near the middle (anterior margin sinuate, relatively linear; caudal margin broadly arched), narrowest dorsally abruptly expanded to widest point at dorsal third, then narrowing slightly to medioventral process, projected at medioventral process; medioventral process of pygofer (ventrocaudal view) short (much wider than tall), bluntly acute, lateral lobes of pygofer broad, more than double height of medioventral process. Gonostyli simple, basal half slender, margins nearly parallelsided, weakly downcurved distally, distal portion abruptly expanded into broad pediform expansion (with short rounded ventral heel and elongated dorsal toe, narrowly rounded), apex obliquely truncate. Phallotheca tubular, straight, about as long as gonostyli, irregular in cross-section, apex bearing two large, elongated projections, shorter projection (in ventral view) extended from right ventral side, directed retrorsely, apex J-hooked; second process from dorsal side (=endosoma), broad at base, narrowing to elongated process, serpentine, extended retrorsely, adpressed to phallotheca, apex exceeding phallotheca base. Anal tube in dorsal view short and broad (broadest proximally narrowing distally), in dorsal view with posterior margin truncate, in lateral view apex decurved into pair of short processes at lateroventral angles of anal tube; paraproct short and conical.
Identification. Caldwell (1945) and supplementary description of the male genitalia above.
Distribution. Guatemala (Caldwell, 1945), Belize, Mexico (Campeche) (see ‘studied material’ above).
description: Published as part of Haas, Matthé Cornelis De, Bartlett, Charles R. & Hendrix, Solomon V., 2025, A new species of Microledrida Fowler from Curaçao (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae), pp. 174-192 in Zootaxa 5609 (2) on pages 188-189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/15215034