Pakidetta jamshoroensis Sanborn & Ahmed, 2017, n. gen.
Creators: name: Sanborn, Allen F.
name: Ahmed, Zubair
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadidae
Pakidetta
Pakidetta jamshoroensis

description: Pakidetta jamshoroensis n. gen., n. sp. (Figs. 1–2)
TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype. “ PAKISTAN: Sindh Province / District Jamshoro, Tori Phatak / 30–IV–2013 Leg. Ameer” one male (NHMK). Paratypes. Same data as holotype, five males and six females (ZACP), four males and four females (AFSC).
ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet is in reference to the region of Pakistan (Jamshoro District) where the type series was collected.
Description. Ground color of head black, prothorax castaneous marked with black and ochraceous, mesothorax and metathorax ochraceous marked with black, abdomen castaneous marked with black and ochraceous (Fig. 1 A).
Head. Head slightly wider than mesonotum, black with ochraceous mark on posterior epicranial suture and anterior portion of anterior arms of epicrantial suture, mark may expand onto supra-antennal plate in some paratypes (Fig. 1 B). Distance between lateral ocellus and corresponding eye shorter than distance between lateral ocelli. Eyes and ocelli golden, reddish brown in some paratypes. Head with short, white pile, longer and more dense posterior to eye. Ventral head black with ochraceous margin of lorum, ochraceous spot on medial gena and ochraceous gena margin along posterior lorum, covered with short and long white pile. Ventral head almost completely black in some paratypes. Postclypeus with ten transverse grooves, black with ochraceous fascia, green centrally in some paratypes, on ventral sulcus that continues onto dorsal surface and on lateral surfaces, castaneous spot on dorsolateral surface with white pile ventrolaterally. Anteclypeus black with long white pile. Rostrum with castaneous mentum with ochraceous base, labium castaneous becoming darker to piceous tip, reaching to middle coxae. Scape striped castaneous and ochraceous, pedicel ochraceous proximally and black distally, remaining antennal segments black.
Thorax. Dorsal prothorax (Fig. 1 B) castaneous with ochraceous fascia on central dorsal midline, ochraceous anterior margin, and ochraceous lateral and posterior pronotal collar, black surrounding ochraceous mark on midline, expanding laterally forming triangular shapes on anterior and posterior, mark connects across midline on anterior and posterior, anterior mark extends to anterior margin on midline, posterior mark continues transversely across pronotal collar to pronotal collar lateral angle and anteriorly along lateral ambient fissure to anterior terminus of lateral fissure. Some paratypes possess an ochraceous or green spot on the dorsal midline of the pronotal collar. Mesonotum ochraceous with large black fascia along submedian sigillae to posterior of cruciform elevation and black fasciae along lateral sigillae to posterior margin, transverse black mark across scutal depressions connects these three fascia (Fig. 1 B). Cruciform elevation and wing groove ochraceous. Metanotum ochraceous with castaneous anterolateral spots and black on dorsal midline appearing as continuation of medial mesonotal fascia. Dorsal thorax covered with short white pile between anterior arms of cruciform elevation, longer on posterior mesonotum, along wing grooves, and lateral metanotum. Ventral thoracic segments ochraceous with black spots on basisternum 2, castaneous marks trochantin 2, episternum 2 and meron 2. Ventral segments covered with short and long white pile.
Wings. Fore wings and hind wings hyaline, fore wing with eight apical cells, hind wing with six apical cells (Fig. 1 C). Venation ochraceous proximally, becoming piceous distally, except piceous anterior costal margin, along anterior basal cell, cubitus anterior including portion fused with median vein, and posterior anal vein 2 + 3. Basal membrane white with gray posterior margin. Hind wing venation ochraceous except black anal vein 3. Proximal vanal fold gray, white extending along anal veins 2 and 3 and medial margin of plaga.
Legs. Coxae and trochanters ochraceous striped with black and castaneous, hind legs marked only with castaneous. Fore femora castaneous, darker distally and on three oblique spines, middle femora with ochraceous mark distally, ochraceous mark larger in hind femora (Fig. 2 C). Remaining fore leg castaneous, middle leg castaneous with ochraceous annulus near proximal and on distal tibiae, hind leg ochraceous with castaneous junction of distal tibia and tarsus and tibial spurs and comb. Pretarsal claws of fore legs castaneous with black tips, ochraceous with black tips in middle and hind legs.
Operculum. Opercula ochraceous with black mark near lateral margin of base (Figs. 2 D). Lateral margin straight, angled medially to rounded posterior margin, rounded medial margin and straight to anteromedial margin parallel to lateral margin, posterior margin reaching to abdominal sternite II, covering tympanal cavity ventrally, extending medially to middle of hind coxa. Meracathus ochraceous with castaneous base and black spot on anterior base. Female operculum and meracanthus as in male but smaller (Fig. 2 E). Long white pile on operculum surface and radiating from margin.
Abdomen. Abdomen longer than distance from apex of head to cruciform elevation, castaneous marked with ochraceous posterior margin and transverse black mark dorsally, ochraceous region reduced in tergite 1 and expanded in tergite 2, with sparse, short white pile (Fig. 1 A). Some paratypes with posterior tergites green rather than ochraceous, castaneous or reddish marks on posterior epipleurites, or white pubescence on dorsal anterior segments in some paratypes. Timbal with six ribs, most anterior incomplete in center, whitish gray, anterior margin and dorsal spot darker, extending below wing base (Figs. 2 A–2B). Epipleurites extend ventrally between tergites and sternites, not reflexed dorsally. Sternites ochraceous, hypopleurites darker giving the appearance of rows of spots, medial sternites VI–VIII becoming increasingly darker in posterior segments. Male sternite VIII V-shaped when viewed from the posterior, long golden pile radiating from ventral surface (Fig. 3 D). Anterior sternites with short white pile. Female sternites ochraceous with transverse castaneous mark on posterior of sternites IV–VII and lateral castaneous spots on sternite VII. Female sternite VII with a deep single notch, posterior margin approximately triangular laterally to midline notch (Fig. 3 I). Abdominal segment 9 castaneous striped with ochraceous on dorsolateral surface and along ventral midline (Fig. 3 H). Dorsal beak dark castaneous, short, not extending to level of the ochraceous anal styles.
Genitalia. Male pygofer castaneous with ochraceoous spot on posterodorsal surface and short, black dorsal beak (Fig. 3 B). Pygofer upper lobe small, flattened, semicircular. Pygofer basal lobe finger-like, with rounded apex, adpressed to pygofer. Sparse white pile on pygofer upper lobe, golden pile radiating from anterior side of claspers. Anal styles and anal tube ochraceous. Uncus duckbill shaped, castaneous with ochraceous fascia on midline (Figs. 3 B, 3D). Claspers castaneous at base angled toward midline where they meet and enclose the aedeagus, diverging anterolaterad, becoming black and tapering to a point (Figs. 3 A–3D). Aedeagus castaneous, tubular (Figs. 3 D, 3F).
Female gonapophyses IX castaneous, gonapophyses X and gonocoxites IX and X black covered with radiating golden pile (Fig. 3 I). Ovipositor sheath extending well beyond dorsal beak (Fig. 3 H).
MEASUREMENTS (MM). N = 10 males or 10 females, mean (range). Length of body: male 20.98 (20.0–22.0), female 21.18 (19.6–22.8); length of fore wing: male 23.53 (22.8–24.3), female 24.20 (22.7–26.0); width of fore wing: male 8.54 (7.8–9.1), female 8.73 (7.8–9.4); length of head: male 3.14 (3.0–3.3), female 3.11 (3.0–3.3); width of head including eyes: male 6.23 (6.0–6.5), female 6.56 (6.2–7.0); width of pronotum including suprahumeral plates: male 6.81 (6.5–7.0), female 6.99 (6.7–7.2); width of mesonotum: male 5.82 (5.5–6.0), female 6.47 (6.2–6.8).
DIAGNOSIS. The characteristics identified to distinguish the genus will distinguish the new species from other Cicadettini in the region. The Melampsalta species known from Pakistan can be distinguished by the black coloration and significantly smaller body length (less than 16 mm) of M. literata, and the timbal does not extend below the wing base in M. musiva but extends below the wing base in the new species, the head is marked with black in M. musiva but is almost entirely black in the new species, the mesonotum has separate obconical spots in M. musiva rather than the fused spots found in the new species, the abdomen is brownish ochraceous with greenish pile and a series of black spots on the posterior segmental margins in M. musiva but castaneous with an ochraceous hind margin without black spots in the new species, the ventral head is marked with black in M. musiva in but is almost entirely black in the new species, and the fore wing venation is fuscous with a pale ochraceous outward costal margin in M. musiva but ochraceous becoming piceous distally in the new species. Linguacicada continuata has similar coloration but is smaller (body length less than 20 mm), has an expanded costal margin on the fore wing, the epipleurites are reflexed ventrally forming a channel lateral to the sternites, and the uncus is lengthened and arched in L. continuata.
REMARKS. Pakidetta jamshoroensis n. gen., n. sp. was captured on a variety of plant species. It was collected in Tamarix sp. along with different shrubs such as Rhazia sp., Salvadora sp., Senna sp., Prosopis cineraria (L.) Druce and Capparis decidua (Forssk.) Edgew. The specimens were collected at dusk after July rainfall. The climate of the type locality is very hot during the summer reaching ambient temperatures greater than 45°C. The area of the type locality is hilly with the soil made of crushed stone. The area is isolated with little impact from humans at this time.
DISTRIBUTION. The species is currently only known from the two localities in the western portion of the most southeastern province of Pakistan where the type series was collected.
description: Published as part of Sanborn, Allen F. & Ahmed, Zubair, 2017, A new genus and new species of Cicadettini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) from Pakistan, pp. 293-300 in Zootaxa 4238 (2) on pages 296-299, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.2.12, http://zenodo.org/record/345290