Pandara inca Silva & Gonçalves & Takiya 2024, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Silva, Marcelo Peixoto Gomes Da
name: Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa
name: Takiya, Daniela Maeda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Pandara
Pandara inca

description: Pandara inca sp. nov.
(Figs 2, 6F–G)
Diagnosis: Male pygofer (Fig. 2F) with dorsal margin strongly declivous posteriorly at apical third; posterior margin rounded. Style, in lateral view (Fig. 2J), with a protrusion on median third of ventral margin. Aedeagus (Figs 2K–L) with shaft flattened dorsoventrally, with two pairs of preapical processes: dorsal pair short, posteroventrally directed and ventral pair bifid with rami crossing the other, dorsal ramus shorter and proximal to shaft and ventral ramus longer and distal to the shaft.
Total length. Male, 8.0 mm.
Description. External morphological characters as in generic description.
Coloration. Color pattern as in generic description.
Male terminalia. Sternite VIII, in ventral view (Fig. 2E), approximately 1.2 times wider than long. Valve, in ventral view, about 1.4 times wider than long; posterior margin rounded. Pygofer, in lateral view (Fig. 2F), approximately 1.5 times longer than high; dorsal margin strongly declivous posteriorly at apical third; posterior margin rounded; preapical dorsal process (Fig. 2G) semicircular. Subgenital plates, in lateral view (Fig. 2F), not extending to apex of pygofer; in ventral view (Fig. 2H), approximately 4.1 times longer than maximum width; inner lateral margin slightly rounded, outer lateral margin slightly excavated in median third; apex acutely rounded. Connective, in dorsal view (Fig. 2I), about half-length of styles. Style in lateral view (Fig. 2J), with outer lobe with rounded apex; ventral margin of blade with an irregular protrusion at middle third. Aedeagus (Figs 2K–L) shaft flattened dorsoventrally, slightly apically expanded; with two pairs of preapical processes: dorsal pair short, approximately one seventh of length of shaft, posteroventrally directed, apex acute, and ventral pair bifid with rami crossed, dorsal ramus shorter than ventral one and closest to shaft in caudal view.
Female unknown.
Distribution. Peru (Amazonas).
Etymology. The new species epithet alludes to the Inca civilization, one of the most important empires in pre- Columbian America.
Material examined. Male holotype: “ Peru: Dept. Amazonas, Distr.\ Aguas Verdes Bagua / Tarapoto \ Rd (5N) at km 403, malaise\ 05º41’23”S 77º38’13”W,\ 1125m, 3-10.x.2008,\ M.E. Irwin, G. Antón Amaya ” (MUSM).
Notes. Pandara inca sp. nov. resembles P. eleganta and P. parallela sp. nov. in having the aedeagus with two pairs of preapical processes and the second pair bifid. However, Pandara inca sp. nov. differs from these species in having the dorsal margin of the pygofer strongly declivous posteriorly at the apical third and by the crossed rami of the ventral processes of the aedeagus.
description: Published as part of Silva, Marcelo Peixoto Gomes Da, Gonçalves, Clayton Corrêa & Takiya, Daniela Maeda, 2024, Review of Pandara DeLong & Freytag (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Gyponini), raised to generic status, including three new species and an identification key, pp. 247-261 in Zootaxa 5463 (2) on pages 252-254, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/11616124