Clinonana Osborn 1938
Creators: name: Engel, Giulia
name: Takiya, Daniela Maeda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Clinonana

description: Clinonana Osborn, 1938
(Figs. 1–6)
Type-species: Clinonana magna Osborn, 1938 (junior synonym of Gypona mirabilis Spångberg, 1878) by original designation.
Description. Measurements in mm (Ψ, n= 53 / ɗ, n=48). Total length: 16.0–19.2 / 13.6–16.8. Crown median length: 1.2–2.2 / 1.0–2.2. Pronotum median length: 2.5–3.5 / 2.3–3.0. Pronotum largest width: 6.8–9.6 / 6.0–8.0. Mesonotum largest width: 4.0–5.0 / 3.8–4.8.
Color. Mostly brown; with a light-green tint when alive (Fig. 1A). Forewings (Figs. 1, 4 B) of all species with two large dark-brown maculae (which may be interrupted), one larger over discal cells (always split by 1 or 2 yellow or greenish-yellow small maculae) and smaller one at apex; small black triangular macula at base, between R+M and Cu.
External morphology. Crown (Figs. 1, 3 A, 4A, 6A) wide and short, in lateral view declivous; median length three-tenths to one-sixth interocular and three-tenths to half of transocular width; anterior margin rounded, with thick carina at crown-face transition; disk flat with small depression anterad of ocelli; surface rugose; without setae. Ocelli (Figs. 1, 3 A, 4A, 6A) located on crown behind imaginary line between anterior eye angles, distant from anterior margin; each ocellus closer to median line of crown than to adjacent eye. Antennal ledges not visible in dorsal view. Antennae short, approximately half of pronotum length. Frons concave on upper portion and flat on lower portion. Epistomal suture obscure. Clypeus in facial view elongate, widest at juncture with frons. Lateral frontal sutures reaching antennal pits, not extending to crown. Genae broad. Lora almost as large as clypeus.
Pronotum (Figs. 1, 3 A, 4A, 6A) short and very broad, much wider than head with lateral margins laterally expanded and carinate; largest width 2.4–3.2 times median length and 1.5–2.0 times largest mesonotum visible width; in lateral view declivous anteriorly; posterior margin concave; disk rugose and transversely striate. Mesonotum large and broad; length 0.7 to 1.2 times that of combined mesal length of crown and pronotum; disk rugose. Foretibiae with setae on basal half of AV row shorter, finer and much closer together than those of apical half. Forewings (Figs. 1, 4 B) long and broad, approximately three times longer than wide; basal half with pits (most on clavus); texture slightly coriaceous becoming more membranous apically; veins distinct, slightly elevated, without extra veinlets; three closed anteapical cells, with (Kramer, 1966: fig. 23) or without (Fig. 4 B) supernumerary transverse veins; five apical cells (R1 present) of which base of third is more apical than others; apex acute; appendix present and running from claval apex beyond outer apical cell. Hind wings (Fig. 4 C) with R4+5 and M1+2 not confluent towards apex. Hind legs with femoral setal formula 2-1-0 (2-1-1 or 2-2-0 in few specimens of C. mirabilis); hind tibiae anterodorsal row of setae with fewer setae than anteroventral and posterodorsal rows, usually with one to three intercalaries; first tarsomere with two parallel rows of setae with cuculate bases, anterior row may have much fewer setae than posterior one.
Male genitalia. Pygofer (Figs. 4 D, 6B, C) slightly produced, approximately as long as height of genital capsule; posterior margin round; dorsoapical area less sclerotized forming membranous round region; with short robust process on dorsoapical margin, process apex serrate on inner edge; few long robust setae on preapical area, near base of dorsal process; microsetae randomly distributed over pygofer lobe. Valve laterally fused to pygofer; articulated posteriorly to subgenital plates; posterior margin with median third well produced posteriorly. Subgenital plates (Figs. 4 D, 6B, F) elongate, extending beyond pygofer apex; each plate separated from each other by basal constriction; apex round; ventral surface with fine scattered setae. Connective short; anterior margin concave; with dorsal keel. Styles (Figs. 4 E, F, 6D, E) long, extending posteriorly well beyond apex of connective; few microsetae on ventrolateral surface of median portion; apex in lateral view expanded into a semi-circle. Aedeagus with shaft (Figs. 4 G, H–J, 6G, H) elongate and slender, dorsally curved, preapical region with two pairs of curved, slender, acute processes; preatrium with pair of robust elongate processes, which are curved dorsally. Paraphyses absent.
Female genitalia. Pygofer (Figs. 3 B, C, 5A, B) moderately produced; posterior margin broadly round, dorsal region concave; setae randomly distributed. Sternite VII (Figs. 3 B, C, 5A, B) longer than preceding segment, approximately 1.6 times wider than median length; posterior margin with pair of lateral concavities and median lobe pronounced, the latter with slight median concavity. Valvifer I (Figs. 3 D–F, 5C–E,) semicircular. Valvula I (Figs. 3 D–G, 5C–F) of ovipositor with inner margins produced anteriorly at base and ventral portion less sclerotized; apex acuminate and slightly curved; dorsal sculptured area strigate; pores conspicuous along ramus. Valvifer II semi-circular (Figs. 3 H, 5G); articulation point with several sensory setae. Valvula II (Figs. 3 I, J, 5H, I) broad; apical three-fourths dorsally expanded; greatest height near middle of valvula, but not distinctly higher than adjacent areas; dorsal margin without or with two to seven irregular teeth of variable length; preapical ventral prominence absent; apex round; ventral and dorsal denticles absent; pores conspicuous.
description: Published as part of Engel, Giulia & Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2012, Synopsis of Clinonana Osborn (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Iassinae): new distributional records and description of a new species, pp. 19-30 in Zootaxa 3329 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281223