Idona dmitrievi Pinedo-Escatel & Blanco-Rodriguez, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Pinedo-Escatel, J. A.
name: Blanco-Rodríguez, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Idona
Idona dmitrievi

description: Idona dmitrievi Pinedo-Escatel & Blanco-Rodríguez, sp. nov.
(Figs. 1−12, 18−19)
Description. Male head, face, legs, and abdomen white. Pronotum, scutellum, and wings with black spots and bands (Fig. 18). Head in dorsal view narrower than pronotum, crown much longer medially than next to eye; eyes as wide as or wider than distance between eyes (Figs. 11−12). Pronotum short, weakly projected anteriorly, marked with black dots at base or without marks. Mesonotum large, with pair of black maculae anteriorly (Figs. 11−12). Each forewing with five black spots in basal half, distal portion infused with black (Fig. 9).
Female as in male (Fig. 19), but dorsal spots smaller.
Male genitalia. Abdominal apodemes well developed, large, broad at apex, extended to segment V (Fig. 3). Pygofer conical, longer than wide (Figs. 1 and 4); with dorsal preapical appendage slender, arising on distal ¾ of dorsal margin and extended posteromesad (Fig. 2). Apex of pygofer lobe with large black decurved hook extended along apical margin, with median ventral lobe (Fig. 1). Plates broad at base, and moderately tapered toward rounded tip, with lateral row of widely separated setae (Fig. 7). Connective U −shaped (Fig. 5). Style long, basal part thin, middle attached to connective with short lobes, preapical lobe rectangular with single seta, apex angled mesad, then posterad (Fig. 5). Aedeagus robust, preatrium short, shaft compressed, with paired slender sinuate processes as long as shaft, arising near base, not extended beyond apex; shorter, wider, single process, placed ventrally at middle of aedeagus, curved dorsad (Fig. 6).
Female genitalia. Pygofer with long setae, sharply excavated at apex showing apical zone of gonoplacs (Fig. 4), and sternite VII straight −oblique (Fig. 8).
Material examined type. HOLOTYPE: 1♂, MEXICO: Morelos, Tetela del Volcán, San Miguel. 1,962m, 18°50’27.204” N, 98°44’46.895” W, 30–Ene–2014. ex: Persea americana., sweep net. R.M.Quezada-Daniel. PARATYPES: 1♀ and 2♂, same dates of holotype; 2♀ and 3♂, MEXICO: Morelos, Tetela del Volcán, Huerta El Calabazo. 2,195m, 18°52’3.252” N, 98°44’5.2” W, 19–Oct–2014., ex: Persea americana., sweep net. R.M.Quezada-Daniel.
Deposit: Holotype ♂ (INHS-713001), 1♀ (INHS-713002); 1♂ in CZUG; 1♀, 1♂ in CNIN; 1♀ (CAJAPE- CTD000001), 3♂ (CAJAPE-CTD000002, CTD000003 and CTD000004).
Other material. 2♀, 2♂. MEXICO: Morelos, Tetela del Volcán, San Miguel. 1,962m, 18°50’27.204” N, 98°44’46.895” W, 30–Ene–2014. ex: Persea americana., sweep net. R.M.Quezada-Daniel [in CEAM].
Measurements. Male 2.4−2.6 mm; female 2.6−2.7 mm; head width between eyes 0.25mm; vertex length 0.22mm; forewing length 2.8 mm; hindwing length 2.2 mm; pronotum width 0.55 mm; eye width 0.10 mm.
Phenology. Specimens were collected in October, November, December, and January. Highest abundance was in December (Quezada-Daniel, pers. comm.).
Etymology. This new species is named in honor of Dmitry Alexandrovich Dmitriev in recognition of his importance as a taxonomist on typhlocybines.
Distribution. Morelos, Mexico (Fig. 17).
Host. Avocado (Persea americana).
Remarks. This species is similar to I. minuenda (see fig. 59 in Young 1952), I. biforma (see fig. 2 in Ruppel & DeLong 1952), and I. gigantica (see fig. 3 in Ruppel & DeLong 1952) in the structure of the aedeagus, but differs in having an additional process between the basal pair of aedeagal processes and the apex of the shaft (Fig. 6). It also differs in the structure of the pygofer processes (Figs. 1−2).
description: Published as part of Pinedo-Escatel, J. A. & Blanco-Rodríguez, E., 2016, A new species of Idona DeLong (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Mexico, with an annotated list of species, pp. 320-330 in Zootaxa 4114 (3) on pages 321-325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/265584