Molomea lineiceps Young 1968
Creators: name: Dellapé, Gimena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Molomea
Molomea lineiceps

description: Molomea lineiceps Young 1968
Diagnosis. Crown and anterior half of pronotum pale yellow to pink with dark spots reticulum-shaped; posterior half of pronotum and forewings dark, mottled yellow, scutellum yellow variably marked with black; clypeus pink with black transverse band along of suture transclipeal; pleura yellow. Male: subgenital plates short, not reaching to middle of pygofer; styles short, which do not extend beyond of apex of connective; shaft of aedeagus elongate with pair of thin basal processes, and other thin and narrow basal process arising from ventral medial portion.
Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig. 11), with lateral margins slightly parallel, lateroposterior margins broadly rounded, and posterior margin slightly convex, with median small projection; surface with scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, slightly produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae and a few macrosetae on posteroventral region of disc. First valvifers, in lateral view, longer than tall; with small spiniform processes on ventral region and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, slightly rectilinear; dorsal and ventral sculptured areas formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; apex acute (Fig. 31), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear or slightly broadened beyond basal curvature; dorsal margin of blade bearing 32 to 35 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth subtriangular, declivous posteriorly, with denticles on anterior and posterior margins (Fig. 51); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded (Fig. 71), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; preapical ventral prominence conspicuous. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with small spiniform processes on ventral margin; apex rounded.
Material examined. ARGENTINA. La Rioja: 1♂. Corrientes: Monte Caseros, 1♂; Santo Tomé, 1♀, XI/ 1926, G. Pellerano. Santa Fe: Rosario, 2♂ 2♀, A. Stevenin. Buenos Aires: Isla Martin García, 1♂ 11♀ 1 without abdomen, IV/1937, M.J. Viana; Martín García, 3♂ 2♀, IV/1936, Siciliano; Tigre, 1♀, A. Stevenin; Tigre, 1♂, 9/I/ 1905, Brethes (MACN). Salta: Orán, Abra Grande, 1♀, 1/III/1967, R. Golbach. Tucumán: El Bachi, 1♀, 24/III/ 1966, Weyrauch; Las Talitas, 1♀, 24/V/2006, E.G. Virla; Caimancito, 1♀, 29/VII/1977, Stange. Corrientes: Virasoro, Las Marias, 1♀, IV/1939, Porter, Stange & DeMarest (IMLA). Tucumán: Horco Molle, 1♀, I/2008. Misiones: Route 211 km 36, 26 °55´55´´S 54°43´4´´W, 1♀, 5/I/2008, C.H. Dietrich. Entre Ríos: Concordia, 3♂, I/ 2010, 1♀, XII/2009, 1♂ 4♀, VI/2010, 4♂ 7♀, IX/2011, yellow sticky trap on citrus orchards, G. Dellapé (MLP).
Distribution. Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina: Córdoba, Entre Ríos (Young 1968), Corrientes, Santa Fe, Salta, Jujuy, Tucumán, La Rioja, Buenos Aires (Paradell et al. 2012), Misiones (Dellapé & Paradell 2013).
description: Published as part of Dellapé, Gimena, 2015, Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina, pp. 521-539 in Zootaxa 3915 (4) on page 527, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/244832