Homa algulata Xu, Dietrich & Qin 2022, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Xu, Ye
name: Wang, Yi-Mei
name: Dmitriev, Dmitry A.
name: Dietrich, Christopher H.
name: Qin, Dao-Zheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Homa
Homa algulata

description: Homa algulata Xu, Dietrich & Qin sp. nov.
(Figs 17–22, 35–37, 69–77)
Holotype. ♂, Thailand Khonkaen Nam Pong NP office, 16 o 37.201'N, 102 o 34.481'E, 218 m, Malaise trap, July 26- August 2 2006, Khamphol Jaidee (QSBG). Paratypes. 5♂♂, same data as holotype (NWAFU); 20♂♂, Thailand Nakhon Nayok Khao Yai NP Behind Football field, 14 o 24.619'N, 101 o 22.778'E, 770 m, Malaise trap, July 5-12 2006, Pong Sandao (INHS); 30♂♂, Thailand Nakhon Nayok Khao Yai NP Behind Football field, 14 o 24.619'N, 101 o 22.778'E, 770 m, Malaise trap, July 5-12 2006, Pong Sandao (QSBG); 1 ♂, Vietnam Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong NP center 20.3522ºN 105.5983ºE, 370 m, July 5-8 2019, C.H.Dietrich, Malaise trap in 2º forest, VN19-2-2 (VNMN); 1 ♂, Vietnam Ninh Binh, Cuc Phuong NP, ca. entrance 20.2501ºN 105.7145ºE 156m, July 7 2019, C.H.Dietrich, Hg. vapor light, VN19-1-6 (INHS).
Description.
Measurements. Body length: male 3.8–4.1 mm.
Ground color reddish brown. Face crimson, ocelli surrounded by dark patches (Fig. 20). Anteclypeus strongly swollen and broader in male than in female (Fig. 20).
1T apodemes not extending to end of segment III, divergent posteriorly (Fig. 35). Male pygofer in lateral view with rounded apex, bearing 5–6 rigid microsetae along posterior margin (Figs 36, 37, 69–71). Subgenital plate widest at base and terminated in rectangle; basal setae (7–8) slightly shorter than macrosetae; marginal setae (8–10) arranged in irregular 1–2 rows, discrete; macrosetae (6–7) somewhat pointed, not reaching tip of plate; feeble microsetae (6–8) weakly developed (Figs 69, 72). Aedeagus shaft tubular, with long unpaired basal process surpassing shaft apex, both shaft and process with single tiny preapical spine, gonopore apical in dorsal view (Figs 73–75). Style strongly curved medially, dentifer bearing 5-6 tiny teeth and about 4–5 setae (Fig. 76). Anal tube lamellate, tapered to acute apex (Fig. 77).
Etymology. The name is an arbitrary combination of letters.
Remarks. This species is similar to H. osificata in having the male anteclypeus strongly swollen and broadened (Figs 8, 20), but differs from the latter in having the subgenital plate macrosetae concentrated near the plate apex (Fig. 72) (concentrated near base in H. osificata (Fig. 49)). H. algulata is also similar to H. asilata in having the 1T apodemes divergent posteriorly (Figs 32, 35). However, it differs from H. asilata in having the anal tube process broad basally (Fig. 77) (anal tube process narrowed basally in H. asilata (Fig. 68)). H. algulata differs from all other known species of Homa in having a single well-developed basal aedeagal process surpassing the shaft apex (Figs 73, 74).
Distribution. Thailand and Vietnam.
description: Published as part of Xu, Ye, Wang, Yi-Mei, Dmitriev, Dmitry A., Dietrich, Christopher H. & Qin, Dao-Zheng, 2022, Revision of the genus Homa Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), pp. 179-190 in Zootaxa 5087 (1) on pages 187-188, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/5819981