Mendozellus paralaredanus Duan, Dietrich & Zhang, 2017, sp. n.
Creators: name: Duan, Yani
name: Dietrich, Christopher H.
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mendozellus
Mendozellus paralaredanus

description: Mendozellus paralaredanus sp. n.
(Figs 4–5)
Length. Male: 2.3–2.5 mm; female: 2.4–2.7 mm.
Coloration and morphology. Ground color reddish brown marked with white; vertex, pronotum, mesonotum, scutellum, and inner margin of forewing with wide medial pale line. Vertex with faint marks. Pronotum with four white longitudinal stripes in addition to medial pale line (Fig. 4 A–D). Face light reddish brown, with paired white arcs and white longitudinal stripe on frontoclypeus (Fig. 4 F). Forewing with veins pale, inner margin of clavus with broad white band (Fig. 4 A–D). Mesosternum dark. Tibiae with dark marks (Fig. 4 E).
Head wider than pronotum, anterior margin distinctly angulate in dorsal view, vertex longer than distance between eyes (Fig. 4 A–D). Anteclypeus tapering to apex, extending beyond normal curve of genae. Lorum semicircular, slightly narrower than anteclypeus, well separated from lateral margin of face (Fig. 4 F). Pronotum nearly as long as vertex (Fig. 4 A–D). Forewing exposing apex of pygofer in female, with four short apical and three anteapical cells, middle anteapical cell with one crossvein, inner anteapical cell usually closed basally, appendix reduced (Fig. 4 A–E).
Male genitalia. Pygofer lightly sclerotized dorsally, pygofer lobe short, caudal margin bluntly angled, with numerous macrosetae in posterior region (Fig. 5 A–B). Subgenital plate subtriangular, lateral margin more or less straight, apex acute, with 4–5 macrosetae arising laterally (Fig. 5 C). Style preapical lobe nearly rectangular; apophysis stout, slightly laterally curved with imbricate microsculpture; basal arms very strongly divergent (Fig. 5 D). Aedeagus in lateral view stout and broadly upturned on distal third, with lateroventral tooth distally; gonopore subapical on ventral surface, very large (Fig. 5 E–F).
Female ovipositor. Sternite VII with posterior margin concave medially, with two posterolateral lobes attached on inner surface (Fig. 4 G). First and second valvulae as in M. asunctia Cheng.
Type material. Holotype ♂, Uruguay, Colonia, Ruta 21, km 194, San Pedro, 23-XII-1983, G.J. Wibmer, INHS. Paratypes: 9♂, 9♀, same data; 1♂, 4♀, Uruguay, Colonia, Piedra de los Indios, ca. Ruta 21, km 184 1/2, 23- XII-2005, G.J. Wibmer, INHS.
Etymology. The specific epithet is based on the similarity of this species to M. laredanus Oman. Remarks. This species closely resembles M. laredanus Oman and M. albolectus DeLong & Cwikla, but is readily distinguishable by color, the shape of the style, and the apex of the aedeagal shaft.
description: Published as part of Duan, Yani, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, Two new species of Mendozellus Linnavuori (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini) with redescription of Mendozellus asunctia Cheng, pp. 231-240 in Zootaxa 4232 (2) on pages 235-237, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/292897