Eleazara viraktamathi Huang & Zhang 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Huang, Weijian
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Eleazara
Eleazara viraktamathi

description: Eleazara viraktamathi Huang & Zhang sp. nov.
(Figs. 1–4, 9–15)
Description. Size rather large. Body length (incl. forewing) 17.3 mm, head width (incl. eyes) 4.1mm, pronotum width 5.2mm, scutellum width 3.3mm. Coloration rusty. Dorsum strongly granulose (Figs. 1–6).
Crown not rugose, transverse camber curved in anterior view (Figs. 5, 6). Median longitudinal carina present. Eyes slate-colored, kidney-shaped. Ocelli dusky; protuberance laterad of ocelli present (Fig. 6). Facial setae numerous throughout. Dark facial pigmentation absent (Figs. 3, 5). Clypeal suture distinct. Frontoclypeus long, narrow and convex, broadened medially, without median longitudinal carina and groove; frontoclypeus base with lateral perpendicular ridges; frontoclypeus apical extension well defined. Anteclypeus small, parallel-sided and extended beyond gena. Lora and genae flattish (Fig. 3). Antennae longer than length of eye, apex extending beyond margin of face; antennal ledges distinct (Fig. 3). Proepisternum large and collar-like (Fig. 3). Pronotum flat anteriorly and abruptly declivous posteriorly, with setae ventrally (Fig. 2–5); pronotal tubercules present (Fig. 4). Scutellum with central elevated crest-like process and pair of lateral crestlike processes (Figs. 1, 2). Forewing punctate, granulose, venation coriaceous in basal two-thirds, highly reticulate and hyaline in apically; appendix vanishing (Figs. 1, 2). Pro- and mesothoracic leg chaetotaxy reduced, with fine setae. Hind tibiae extremely dilated, with 5 stout and enlarged setae anterodorsally (AD). Metathoracic tarsomere I columnar, more robust compared with other tarsomeres, in ventral view longer in length with remaining tarsomeres combined (Fig. 3).
Male pygofer narrow, without terminal process, with medial short and fine setae (Figs. 8, 12, 14). Male 8th sternite nearly longer than 7th sternite, with posterior margin concave (Fig. 15). Pygofer side in lateral aspect tapering posteriorly with posterior long hook-like process, beyond pygofer (Fig. 14). Style slim, widest medially, acuminate apically, curved ventrally at apex, with 4 setae on the tortuous area (Figs. 9, 10). Aedeagus curved dorsally, shaft slightly lamellate with a pair of lamellate processes medially (Figs. 7, 8). Connective flat, short and wide, trapeziform (Figs. 9–11).
Material examined. Holotype: male, Malaysia, Sabah, 20 August 2016, Yisheng Zhao (NWAFU).
Female. Unknown.
Etymology. The new species is named in honor of Chandra A Viraktamath (University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, Bengalur) and his great contributions to leafhopper taxonomy.
Diagnosis. This species resembles E. yangi Cai & He but differs in having a rusty body, a slightly lamellate aedeagal shaft, a slender style and pygofer side in lateral aspect tapering posteriorly with posterior long hook-like process.
description: Published as part of Huang, Weijian & Zhang, Yalin, 2018, First record of the genus Eleazara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae, Ledrinae) in Malaysia, with description of a new species, pp. 434-440 in Zootaxa 4532 (3) on pages 436-438, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4532.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/2615515