Scaphoideus banjarensis Rajgopal & Dey 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Rajgopal, N. N.
name: Dey, Debjani
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Scaphoideus
Scaphoideus banjarensis

description: Scaphoideus banjarensis sp. nov.
(Fig. 1A, B, H & I; Fig. 2A, B, H & I; Fig. 3A–N).
Male: Body pale brown with white longitudinal stripe medially running from tip of vertex to apex of forewing. Vertex apically with small brown circular spot and a pair of large irregular brown spots near ocelli, medially with paired, bright yellowish orange, longitudinal band terminating mid scutellum. Face brownish, with five irregular transverse dark brown fasciae between compound eyes, a pair of brown transverse stripes below compound eyes reaching frontoclypeal suture.
Male genitalia: Pygofer 1.5X longer than wide in lateral view, with distinct row of macro setae posterosubapically, patch of macrosetae from sub-apex to middle (Fig. 3A). Subgenital plate triangular, 2.8X longer than broad at base, with lateral row of oblique uniseriate 5 stout macrosetae in basal half, apex acute, with indentation 0.25 from apex on inner margin (Fig. 3B). Style elongate, well-developed preapical lobe, apophysis slender, lateral margin slightly curved medially, postulate ventrally (Fig. 3B&E). Paraphysis slender, branches equal in length, fused in proximal half, separated and divergent distally (Fig. 3C–D). Aedeagus narrow, tubular, elongate strongly curved, shaft directed caudo-ventrally, with pair of slender, basally directed paired process arising laterally near apex, apex with deep U-shaped excavation in ventral view, gonopore apical (Fig. 3A, F–I).
Female: Body coloration and habitus characters same as male.
Female genitalia: Seventh sternite in ventral view (Fig. 3J), as long as broad, anterior margin straight, hind margin convex with narrow V-shaped notch medially. Valvulae I (Fig. 3K–L), in lateral view, distinctly curved dorsally, dorsal margin concave, dorsal reticulate sculpturing extending from middle to apex, ventral irregular sculptured area restricted to apical portion. Valvulae II (Fig. 3M–N), in lateral view slender, slightly sinuate, dorsal margin concave in the middle and flattened apically on toothed area with irregular scattered reticulation on distal 0.3, dorsal margin with 13 prominent teeth, apex tapered and blunt.
Measurements (mm): Male 8.6 long, 1.7 wide across eyes, 1.7 wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum. Female 9.4 long, 1.8 wide across eyes, 1.8 wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.
Type material: HOLOTYPE: ♂, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Banjar, (31°38’14”N 77°20’38”E), 23.ix.2014, Hg light, Coll. Naresh Meshram (NPC). PARATYPES: 5 ♂♂, 8 ♀♀, data as in holotype (NPC). 2 ♂♂, India: Himachal Pradesh: Hamirpur, 20.xi.2019, Coll. Niranjana GN (NPC). 1♂, India: Himachal Pradesh: Bilaspur, 08.x.2018, Coll. Niranjana GN (NPC).
Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the type locality (Banjar, Himachal Pradesh: India).
Remarks: This species externally resembles Scaphoideus inequalis Viraktamath & Mohan and other species of the Scaphoideus albovittatus group (Chen et al. 2015) in having a conspicuous white band extended along the midline of the body from the head to the resting forewings. S. banjarensis is the largest species of the genus occurring in India. However, it differs from S. inequalis in following characters, paraphyses with branches equal; subgenital plate with an oblique row of 5 stout macro setae; aedeagal shaft with lateral processes elongate near apex and without anteriorly directed short process at midlength.
description: Published as part of Rajgopal, N. N. & Dey, Debjani, 2022, A new species and some new records of leafhopper tribe Scaphoideini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from India, pp. 348-360 in Zootaxa 5182 (4) on pages 349-353, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7056454