Jogina VIRAKTAMATH & YESHWANTH 2024, gen. nov.
Creators: name: VIRAKTAMATH, C. A.
name: YESHWANTH, H. M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Jogina

description: Genus Jogina gen. nov.
Type species: Idioscopus robustipennis Viraktamath, here designated.
Diagnosis. Resembling species of Idioscopus but differs in the absence of any processes on the aedeagus, the shaft compressed and sulcate on lateral surface.
Description. Ochraceous, mesonotum with basal triangles dark brown.
Crown medially slightly longer than next to eyes, transversely rugose, 3.5× as wide between eyes as long medially, fore margin rounded to face. Face dorsad of ocelli rugose, about as wide as long. Ocelli closer to adjacent eye than to each other. Clypellus more or less parallel sided in basal 0.75 length then widened. Lora slightly raised above general surface, not reaching outer margins of gena. Labium not reaching metacoxae, terminal segment slightly expanded in male. Antenna without subapical disc in male. Pronotum, shagreen, 2.2× as wide as long medially, longer than crown and shorter than mesonotum, posterior margin slightly concave medially, in profile declivous anteriorly. Mesonotum slightly longer than combined length of crown and pronotum. Forewing with 2 subapical and four apical cells. Meta femur distal macrosetae 2+1. Metatibial chaetotaxy in row AD 6, PD 6 and AV 17 macrosetae. Metabasitarsomere with two platellae in distal transverse row flanked on one side with one and on the other side two setae (Fig. 28E).
Male genitalia. Pygofer with anterior well-developed apodemes, with basal fracture on dorsal margin, without ventral process, height longer than width, dorsoposterior angle conically rounded. Subgenital plate as long as pygofer, with short basal segment, slightly widened apically, with marginal thin hair-like setae. Style with anterior part 0.33 as long as posterior part beyond articulation with connective, ventral margin serrated distad of midlength, distal 0.22 length without serrations, dorsal surface with thin moderately long setae. Connective plate-like, somewhat T-shaped, with broad stem. Aedeagus in lateral view robust, preatrium very short, dorsal apodeme well-developed, shaft compressed, lateral surface sulcate, without apical or basal processes, gonopore subapical on ventral surface. Anal collar process slender and long.
Female unknown.
Etymology. The genus name is derived from the word “Jog”—the first word of the type locality of the type species of the genus, Jog Falls; gender feminine.
Remarks. Species of Jogina as in the case of Matangia gen. nov. (see below) do not have any processes on the aedeagus and the shaft is compressed. Jogina differs from Matangia in having a much shorter and robust aedeagus with the shaft laterally sulcate. At present it contains only the type species collected at Jog Falls.
description: Published as part of VIRAKTAMATH, C. A. & YESHWANTH, H. M., 2024, Arboreal eurymeline leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Eurymelinae) of the Indian subcontinent with description of new genera and eight new species, pp. 1-125 in Zootaxa 5462 (1) on pages 51-55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5462.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/11610410