Saltadorus dietrichi Camisão, Zahniser & Takiya, 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Camisão, Beatriz M.
name: Zahniser, James N.
name: Takiya, Daniela M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Saltadorus
Saltadorus dietrichi

description: Saltadorus dietrichi sp. nov.
(Fig. 10)
Type-locality: Puente Cuevas, ca. Tingo Maria, Huánuco Region, Peru.
Length: 4.0 mm
Coloration: General color light brown. Crown with a pair of round dark brown maculae near posterior margin; area around ocelli dark brown (Fig. 10A). Frontoclypeus brown. Clypellus, lorae, and legs whitish. Pronotum with muscular markings on anterior half dark brown (Fig. 10A). Mesonotum with pair of large subtriangular lateral maculae and small median macula on anterior margin, dark brown (Fig. 10A).
External morphology: Head with median length slightly longer than next to eye; coronal suture reaching beyond midlength of crown (Fig. 10A). Clypellar suture arcuate. Clypellus widening medially and tapering apically, tumid in lateral view. Profemur with intercalary row with 10–12 setae; row AV with 3 moderately long, stout setae and ~5 relatively long, fine setae. Other characters as in the generic description.
Male genitalia: Pygofer posterior margin rounded; with setae on posterodorsal margin; pair of inner lateral processes arising sub-basally on dorsal region, directed posteriorly, thick at base, becoming narrowed on posterior two-thirds in lateral view, apex slightly expanded, apex extending posteriorly beyond apex of pygofer in lateral view (Fig. 10C–D). Subgenital plate with several setae restricted to extreme apex; outer margin convex near base in ventral view, becoming approximately straight toward the apex; inner margin strongly concave in ventral view, apical half becoming narrower; apex turned upward and inward, forming sharp tooth (Fig. 10D). Aedeagus robust; broader at base, narrowing toward apex; beyond atrium, dorsal margin forming a saddle-like shape, slightly concave, then angulately curved ventrad before apical part; apical part with pair of triangular teeth on dorsal margin; apex with dorsal expansion; sclerotized gonoduct protruding from atrium, recurved back inside and again out of atrium; gonopore apical, with margins more sclerotized and thickened (Fig. 10E–F). Other characters as in generic description.
Female terminalia: Female unknown.
Etymology: The new species is named after Dr. Christopher Dietrich (Illinois Natural History Survey, USA), a leafhopper specialist, who collected and kindly photographed the holotype.
Notes: Saltadorus dietrichi is very similar to S. blahniki, but it can be identified by the shorter male pygofer, the saddle-shaped dorsal margin of the aedeagus, and the presence of subapical dorsal teeth on the aedeagus (Figs. 10C–F).
The holotype of S. dietrichi was included in the phylogenetic analyses by Cao et al. (2022) as an undescribed species of Brincadorus (see Discussion).
Type-material: holotype ♂, “ PERU: Huánuco, 8 km S Tingo María, Pte.Cuevas, 620m 9°21’27”S 75°59’32”W 24 Oct 2002, C.H.Dietrich, on wet sand, 02-37-1” (MUSM).
description: Published as part of Camisão, Beatriz M., Zahniser, James N. & Takiya, Daniela M., 2024, On the Neotropical Brincadorus: redescription, new species, taxonomic key and description of a related new genus (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), pp. 537-558 in Zootaxa 5497 (4) on pages 555-556, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5497.4.5, http://zenodo.org/record/13619117