Ciminius hartii (Ball)

Alasmar, Luísa, Domahovski, Alexandre Cruz & Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro, 2025, Morphological-based phylogeny and revision of Ciminius Metcalf and Bruner, 1936 (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae), Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 83, pp. 231-285 : 231-285

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scientific name	Ciminius hartii (Ball)
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Ciminius hartii (Ball) View in CoL

Figures 5 View Figure 5 , 6 View Figure 6 , 7 View Figure 7 , 28E, F View Figure 28

Tettigonia hartii Ball, 1901: 61. View in CoL

Ciminius hartii Metcalf and Bruner, 1936: 944. View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Coloration of males (Fig. 6 A, B View Figure 6 ) black and females (Figs 5 A, B View Figure 5 , 28 E View Figure 28 ) pale-yellow. Males (Fig. 6 A View Figure 6 ) usually without yellowish marks on crown and pronotum, if present, restrict to pronotum anterior margin. Aedeagus (Fig. 6 G, H View Figure 6 ) ventral margin expanded, not excavated basally and without processes; apex expanded forming a hood-like structure. Paraphysis (Fig. 6 I, J View Figure 6 ) directed posterodorsally, rectilinear.

Description.

Measurements: Total length: males (n = 3) 3.9–4.1 mm; females (n = 3) 5.1–5.3 mm. — Crown: (Figs 5 B View Figure 5 , 6 A View Figure 6 , 28 E View Figure 28 ), in dorsal view, slightly produced, anterior margin subtriangular. Median length of crown from 2 / 5 to 1 / 2 of intraocular width, and 1 / 4 of transocular width. Pronotum width approximately equal to transocular width. Ocelli located slightly posteriorly of imaginary line between anterior eyes angles. Other features as in generic description. — Coloration: Females, with overall coloration pale-yellow (Figs 5 A View Figure 5 , 28 E, F View Figure 28 ), similar to described in C. albolineatus . Males black (Fig. 6 A – C View Figure 6 ). Crown and pronotum (Fig. 6 A View Figure 6 ) entirely black. Face (Fig. 6 C View Figure 6 ) with yellow areas on muscular impressions. Clypeus, gena and lorum yellowed. Mesonotum (Fig. 6 A View Figure 6 ) black. Forewings (Fig. 6 A, B View Figure 6 ) veins concolor, indistinct. Legs (Fig. 6 B View Figure 6 ) yellow. Abdomen, in lateral view, blackened, bordered with yellow. — Male terminalia: Pygofer (Fig. 6 D View Figure 6 ), in lateral view, posterior margin broadly rounded. Subgenital plate (Fig. 6 D View Figure 6 ), in lateral view, slightly surpass half of pygofer. Valve (Fig. 6 E View Figure 6 ), in ventral view, margins subparallel, lateral margins acute anteriorly. Style (Fig. 6 F View Figure 6 ), in dorsal view, with a slight dentate process medially in outer margin. Aedeagus (Fig. 6 G, H View Figure 6 ), in lateral view, shaft protuberant dorsally; ventral margin rugulose anteriorly; apical portion expanding to a rounded apex. Paraphysis (Fig. 6 I View Figure 6 ), in lateral view, directed posterodorsally, rectilinear, reaching pygofer apical third; dorsal and ventral margins subparallel, slightly constricted subapically; apex acute; in dorsal view (Fig. 6 J View Figure 6 ), sinuous preapically. Other features as in generic description. — Female genitalia: Sternite VII (Figs 5 D View Figure 5 , 7 A – C View Figure 7 ), in ventral view, almost 2 × wider than long, posterior margin with a distinctly acute median lobe. Valvula II (Fig. 7 F – H View Figure 7 ) blade with 19 continuous subtriangular serrated teeth. Other features (Fig. 7 D, E, I, J View Figure 7 ) as in generic description.

Material examined.

Lectotype (Fig. 4 View Figure 4 ): UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Mississippi • 1 ♀; 1945; Oman leg.; USNMENT 01513860 ; USNM.

Other material.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – Florida • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Hudson ; 13 Jul. 1939; Oman leg.; USNM • 1 ♂; Dunellon 7 Oct. 1938; Oman leg.; USNM • 1 ♂; New Port Ritchey ; 7. Oct. 1938; Oman leg.; USNM • 1 ♀; Sof Picnic ; 8 Oct. 1938; Oman leg.; USNM • 1 ♀; Sanford ; 22 July. 1939; Oman leg.; USNM .

Remarks.

Ciminius hartii resembles externally to C. yana , C. sesamum sp. nov., and males of C. dissidens sp. nov.., but differs from them by the aedeagus not presenting any lobated process on dorsal margin nor serrated processes on ventral margin. Otherwise, the paraphysis is rectilinear, unlikely in C. yana and C. dissidens sp. nov.. Ciminius hartii is the most abundant species amongst Nearctic Ciminius reported in literature and in museum collections.