Sophonia picta Viraktamath & Wilson 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Viraktamath, C. A.
name: Wilson, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Sophonia
Sophonia picta

description: Sophonia picta sp. nov.
Figs 1, 12, 20–31.
Yellow with carmine red and black markings. Crown with a large squarish to round carmine red spot near apex from which thin median line of same color extends posterad, not reaching hind margin of crown. Lateral margins of vertex in front of eye bright orange yellow. Forewing with three oblique fuscous lines and large round black spot on second apical cell, area between fuscous lines orange.
Male genitalia. Pygofer posteriorly conically rounded, without ventral process, dorsal margin sinuate, ventral margin obliquely slightly curved, with macrosetae dorsally in posterior 0.66. Subgenital plate about 4.5 times as long as broad at base, with one row of macrosetae, distally conically rounded. Style with moderately developed preapical lobe, apophysis sinuately curved with a few hair-like setae in basal half, in lateral view slightly hooked distally. Connective Y-shaped, stem about 2.7 times as long as broad across arms. Aedeagus in lateral view Ushaped, with well-developed dorsal apodeme and poorly developed preatrium, shaft cylindrical, curved dorsally almost at right angle in basal 0.66 with rounded apex; one pair of ventral processes arising almost at midlength and following curvature of shaft, each process forked, forks subequal and each fork differently curved and longer than shaft.
Female genitalia. Sternite VII as long as sixth, posterior margin almost straight, with median slight protuberance. Valvula I curved, with strigate sculpturing confined to the distal 0.4, strigae oblique and reaching dorsal margin except sub-distally. Valvula II curved with toothed area confined to distal 0.33 preceded by hyaline area, teeth prominent with secondary dentition.
Measurements. Male 4.5–4.6 mm long, 1.7 mm wide across eyes. Female 5.4 mm long, 1.8 mm wide across eyes.
Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDONESIA: Borneo: Kalimantan Tengah, Mentaya, Hilir, Selatan, Samuda Besar, 11 Km S Samuda, i.2004, ex Sticky Trap (BMNH). PARATYPES: 2♂, 1♀, data as for Holotype; 2 ♀, INDONESIA: Kalimantan, Sticky Trap, v.2001 (BMNH, NMWC, UASB).
Remarks. Sophonia ocellaris (Baker), S. malayana, S. marginata (Baker), S. picta, S. penangensis (Baker) and S. sandakanensis all have a carmine red spot at the apex of the crown. S. picta differs in having the red apical spot large and square to round in shape. S. picta differs from S. ocellaris and S. malayana (male S. marginata is not known) in having the aedeagus with a ventral pair of forked processes compared to the other species which have the processes either unforked or forked with unequal branches and situated laterally. It differs from S. penangensis in lacking a process on the dorsal apodeme of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Viraktamath, C. A. & Wilson, Michael R., 2018, New species of the leafhopper genera Sophonia and Stenotortor (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from the Oriental region, pp. 356-366 in Zootaxa 4378 (3) on pages 357-360, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4378.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/1170013