Paraphysipona furculapona, Lu & Dietrich & Webb & Zhang, 2025

Lu, Lin, Dietrich, Christopher H., Webb, M. D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2025, Revision of the Oriental Roxasella leafopper group: phylogeny, morphological evolution, biogeography, and description of 14 new species, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 204 (3) : -

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf040
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:3ADE596-81B2-4E0E-AFB7-791182117BE5
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B448EA62-FFD6-B248-FEBD-FC0F3E294EC8
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Paraphysipona furculapona
status	sp. nov.

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Paraphysipona furculapona View in CoL sp.nov.

( Fig. 22A–Q) (URN:LSID:ZOOBANK.ORG:ACT: D6B08017-C0D8-4C49-B9C5-9DF9D9EE505C)

Description: Length (including tegmen): male 7.5 mm. Fore femur IC with about 10 setae, AV with six stout setae.

Male genitalia: Style apex bilobed, pre-apical lobe not developed. Aedeagus with shaf smooth and relatively short, in lateral view strongly curved, slightly broader near the middle and tapered to apex. Paraphysis larger than aedeagus, expanded at base with dorsal surface rough in lateral view and curved strongly dorsad, apex forked in ventral view with branches strongly divergent and tapered distally.

Material examined: Holotype: ♂, Philippines, Bukidnon, Brgy Impalutao , CEDAR [Center for Ecological Development and Recreation], (08°2509'N, 125°034'E), 780 m, 7 July 2010, coll. J. Jones ( PNM).

Etymology: Tis species name is a Latin adjective meaning ‘forked’, referring to the bifurcate paraphysis between the aedeagus and connective.