CICADELLINAE: PART 2. NEW WORLD CICADELLINI 663 
Selvitsa ibena, NEW SPECIES 
Figure 540 
Length of male 12.0 mm, of female 11.0 mm. Head with median length of 
crown approximately one-third interocular width and one-fourth transocular 
width, disk of crown concave, surface with a group of radiating rugae on each 
side of middle; antennal ledges in lateral view with anterior margins almost 
vertical; clypeus flattened. Other external characters as in S. tenofa, n. sp. 
Male pygofer subtruncate apically in lateral view, with an apical aciculate 
process which is directed mesally, with a few macrosetae parallel to posterior 
margin; plates extending posteriorly almost as far as apex of pygofer, each 
with a number of short multiseriate macrosetae; style very short, extending 
posteriorly slightly beyond apex of connective, without a preapical lobe; con- 
nective as in tenofa; aedeagus as in tenofa but shaft not curved dorsally as 
much and with the atrial processes more slender and extending dorsally, 
straight almost to their apices which are curved slightly posterodorsally and 
acute; paraphyses absent. Female abdominal sternum VII with lateral lobes 
well developed, with median posterior projection broad basally, gradually 
narrowed to apical portion which is slender and truncate apically. 
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FIGURE 540.—Seluitsa ibena, n. sp. (2, k, n. q, from specimen from Mapiri, 
Bolivia; remainder from holotype): p, Male pygofer, left side, from 
caudoventral view; qg, teeth near base of second valvula. 
