Olidiana parafringa Nielson 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Olidiana
Olidiana parafringa

description: <i>Olidiana parafringa</i>, sp. nov. (Plate 4A, Fig. 196-202) <b>Description. Length.</b> Male. 8.20 mm., female unknown. <b>External morphology.</b> Moderately large, robust species. General color black with dark yellow markings. Forewings with black veins, veins with few dark yellow markings, cells with numerous, irregular light brown markings; mesonotum black with few dark yellow spots; pronotum black, bullae dark yellow; crown light brown, marked with few, suffused dark markings; eyes dark brown; face light yellow; clypeus with reddish brown longitudinal band on inner lateral margins; clypellus with broad, longitudinal brown stripe medially; head distinctly narrower than pronotum, anterior margin obtusely rounded; crown short, narrow, narrower than width of eyes; produced anteriorly about ¼ total length, lateral margins convergent basally; pronotum large, slightly longer medially than crown, surface bullated; mesonotum large, slightly longer medially than pronotum; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins broadly convex; clypellus short, about 1/3 as long as clypeus, narrower than clypeus, slightly inflated basally, apex flared laterally. <b>Male genitalia.</b> Pygofer in lateral view large, sub-triangulate, sparsely setose on ventral apical margin (Fig. 196); aedeagus long, tubular, sinuate in lateral view with subapical, setose process, process elliptical in dorsal view, setae subapical on lateral margin and apically, with 2 small, subapical, digitate lobes in lateral view; gonopore long, basad of apex of process, serrate on outer lateral margin in lateral view (Fig. 197, 198); style long, apophysis broad, lobed apically in dorsal view, outer lateral margin expanded (Fig. 199, 200); dorsal connective, short, narrow, arising from outer margin of aedeagal shaft in dorsal view (Fig. 197); connective large, arms broad, medial ridge complete, stem small, lobate (Fig. 201); subgenital plate slightly longer than aedeagus, broad, sparsely setose on outer lateral margin in distal 1/5 (Fig. 202). <b>Material examined.</b> Holotype male. LAOS-N: (Oudomxai), 1-9.v.2002, 1100 m., 20 o 45’N 102 o 09' E., Oudom Xai (17 km. NEE), Vit Kuban, leg. / Entomological expedition, “ Laos 2002”, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic (MMBC). Paratype male. Same data as holotype (MLBM). <b>Etymology.</b> The species name is descriptive for the near similarity of the aedeagal features to <i>O. fringa</i>. <b>Remarks.</b> From <i>O. fringa</i> to which it is similar in male genitalia features, <i>O. parafringa</i> can be distinguished by the shorter length and configuration of the style which has a larger lobe apically in dorsal view, broader subgenital plate and different arrangement of the setae on the aedeagal process.
description: Published as part of <i>Nielson, M. W., 2015, A revision of the tribe Coelidiini of the Oriental, Palearctic and Australian biogeographical regions (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), pp. 1-202 in Insecta Mundi 2015 (410)</i> on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5181587