Docalidia accurationis Nielson 2011, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Docalidia
Docalidia accurationis

description: Docalidia accurationis, sp. nov.   
(Plate 1A, Figures 1–9)  
 Length. Male 7.20 mm., female unknown.   
 External morphology. Moderately large, robust species. General color of dorsum dark brown to black throughout except for flavous crown (Plate 1A); face entirely black.   
Head much narrower than pronotum, anterior margin broadly rounded; crown broad, wider than eye; lateral margins nearly parallel, depressed on each side of middle; eyes large, semiglobular; pronotum large, median length about 1/3 longer than crown, surface bullated; mesonotum large, median length about 1/3 longer than pronotum; forewings long, broad, venation typical of genus; clypeus long, narrow, lateral margins convex, with distinct median longitudinal carina; clypellus about 1/3 as long as clypeus, lateral margins nearly parallel.  
 PLATE I. A–H. Dorsal habitus. A. Docalidia accurationis, sp. nov.: B. Docalidia acutula, sp. nov.; C. Docalidia acuminata, sp. nov.; D. Docalidia barbata, sp. nov.; E. Docalidia biarcua, sp. nov.; F. Docalidia bolivari, sp. nov.; G. Docalidia caudata, sp. nov.; H. Docalidia cirra, sp. nov.   
 Male genitalia. Pygofer in lateral view quadrate excluding caudal processes, caudoventral process short, very broad in basal 5/6, apex narrow, hooked shaped, caudodorsal process extremely long, about as long as body of pygofer, narrow in basal 4/5, triangulate in distally (Fig. 1); segment X long, with distinctive ventral process (Fig. 2); right subgenital plate large, very broad subapically, glabrous (Fig. 3); right style long, nearly as long as aedeagus with triangulate, toothed supramedial flange, small lenticular flange subapically (Figs. 4, 5); aedeagus asymmetrical, tubular, in lateral view shaft broadly sinuate with distinctive subapical spine projecting basally, gonopore medial on ventral margin (Fig. 6), in ventral view shaft very narrow in distal 5/6 (Fig. 7); connective distinctive, nearly T-shaped, arms narrow, stem short, membrane absent (Fig. 8); dorsal connective in dorsal view moderately long, strapped shape (Fig. 9).   
 Material examined. Holotype male. BRAZIL: Honaonia (sic) [Rondonia], 62 km., SE Ariquemes, 22–31 Oct. 1997, W. J. Hansen (NMNH).   
 Etymology. The name is descriptive for the similar configuration of the apex of segment X ventral process and caudodorsal pygofer process.   
 Remarks. This species is nearest to D. iacula (Nielson, 1979 e: 215) known only from Peru, in configuration of the pygofer and stylar processes. The long ventral process of segment X and triangulate apex of the caudodorsal pygofer process will readily distinguish accurationis from iacula.
description: Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2011, New species in the Neotropical genus Docalidia with a key to known species, notes on distribution, taxonomy and a synoptic catalogue of the genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae: Teruliini) 2952, pp. 1-86 in Zootaxa 2952 (1) on pages 14-17, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2952.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5281673