Limentinus perineti Gnezdilov 2021, n. comb.
Creators: name: Gnezdilov, Vladimir M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Limentinus
Limentinus perineti

description: Limentinus perineti (Evans, 1953) n. comb.
(Figs 1; 2; 5)
Coelidia perineti Evans, 1953: 108, figs 45, 46.
TYPE MATERIAL. — Examined from photos taken by Mr Fauvre. Holotype. Madagascar • sex unknown as the abdomen is missed; Périnet, Sahamaloto; 13-17.I.1949; Inst. Scient. Madagascar, PC; MNHN-EH-EH2701.
MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Madagascar • 1 ♂; Périnet; Seyrig; 12.II.1931; ZIN.
DIAGNOSIS. — Aedeagal shaft with three spine-shaped straight processes subapically on right side and one spine-shaped straight subapical process on left side and with two short and two long spine-shaped slightly curved processes below on right and left sides (Fig. 5E, F).
DESCRIPTION
Structure
As mentioned for the genus.
Coloration (Figs 1; 2)
Face yellow, with two wide black stripes running from ocelli throughout frontoclypeus and fused in one stripe on anteclypeus (Figs 1C; 2C); apical enlarged part of anteclypeus with brown yellow margins; lorae black, except brown yellow outer margins; genae with wide longitudinal black stripe under each eye running to level of lorae; antennae with scapus, pedicel, and flagellum light yellow; ocelli dark brown; rostrum brownish yellow. Crown black, except brown yellow lateral margins (Figs 1A; 2A). Pronotum and mesonotum black. Thorax below and coxae mainly black. Forewings dark brown to black, with black veins; corium with light brown yellow area along the costal margin almost from the basal cell to outer anteapical cell and with light brown yellow spot below the apex of clavus (Evans 1953: fig. 44) (Figs 1B; 2B); apical cells with appendix brown cinereous. Fore and middle legs light yellow. Middle trochanters light yellow, with dark brown inner sides. Hind trochanters brown yellow. Hind femora dark brown to black in its basal 2/3 and light yellow in its apical third. Hind tibiae dark brown, with light setae. Hind tarsi brown yellow. Claws dark brown. Abdominal segments black, with light yellow hind margins. Genital block black, except light yellow lateral margin apically of subgenital plate.
Male genitalia (Fig. 5)
Anal tube 1.5 times as long as wide, flattened ventrally. Anal column short. Pygofer lobe triangularly elongate, with an additional small lobe on apical angle under anal tube and with ventral lobe in its middle (Fig. 5B); apical lobe with seven macrosetae subapically on its inner side (Fig. 5C). Subgenital plate long and narrow, not narrowing apically, with microsetae apically and with long setae on main surface, including several subapical macrosetae (Fig. 5D). Aedeagus asymmetrical, shaft long and narrow, slightly curved, with small hook apically bearing marginal denticles (Fig. 5 E-G), with three (2 + 1) spine-shaped straight processes subapically on right side and one spine-shaped straight subapical process on left side and with two short and two long (one is damaged) spineshaped slightly curved processes below on right and left sides respectively (Fig. 5E, F); gonopore probably subapical. Styles elongate, narrowing apically, with rounded apices (Fig. 5H). Connective arcuate (Fig. 5I).
Measurement
Total length from the apex of head to the apices of forewings: 7.0 mm.
description: Published as part of Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2021, New species of the genera Limentinus Distant, 1917 and Calodia Nielson, 1982 (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae, Coelidiinae) from the Makay Massif of Madagascar, with a key to Malagasy species, pp. 297-310 in Zoosystema 43 (16) on pages 298-300, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a16, http://zenodo.org/record/4947009