Paradorydium desertorum Linnavuori, 1964

Gnezdilov, V. M., 2019, Leafhoppers of the subtribe Paradorydiina Evans (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) in the United Arab Emirates, Zoosystematica Rossica (China) 28 (1), pp. 155-162 : 161

Paradorydium desertorum Linnavuori, 1964

(Figs 10–17)

Paradorydium desertorum Linnavuori, 1964: 339 , fig. 24b.

Material studied. United Arab Emirates: 3 ♀, Abu Dhabi, Al Ajban, N 24˚36', E 55˚01', 17.IV.2010, V. M. Gnezdilov leg. Israel: 1 J, 2 ♀, Beer Sheva , 30. V .1966, V. A. Tryapitsyn leg.

Notes. The species was described from several females from “Cairo-Suez desert road” in Egypt collected on Panicum turgidum Forssk. ( Linnavuori, 1964). Fifteen years later it was also recorded from south of Riyadh in Saudi Arabia based on a single female ( Dlabola, 1979). For the first time, P. desertorum male genitalia are described and illustrated here based on a specimen from the Negev desert in Southern Israel.

Male genitalia (Figs 13–17). Anal tube long. Hind margin of pygofer lobe triangular, short, more or less evenly sloping posteroventrad from base to apex, without posterodorsal process (Fig. 13). Hind margin of genital valve weakly convex (Fig. 14). Genital plates narrowing apically, with pointed apices (Figs 13, 14). Aedeagal shaft narrow, slightly and gradually tapered from base to apex in both lateral and posterior view, arcuately bent, without processes (Figs 15, 16). Connective elongate. Style narrow; apex obliquely tapered (Fig. 17).