Hecalus tumidus Nikoshe & Meshram, sp. nov. (Figs. 4, 9, 14, 41–47) Color yellow-green to green (Figs. 4, 9). Vertex and face (Fig. 14) greenish yellow without submarginal fuscous lines, forewings subhyaline, black spot at end of clavus. Bases of tibial macrosetae and tarsi light brown. Head including eyes 0.9x as long as width of pronotum. Head not much produced in front, crown length 0.5x shorter than width between eyes. Face 0.8x as long as wide. Frontoclypeus longer than wide; frontal suture, terminating laterad of ocelli. Ocelli near anterior margin, very closely oppressed to eyes. Pronotum length 0.4x as long as wide and 1.5x length of scutellum. Male genitalia. Pygofer (Fig. 41) longer than wide Valve broadly triangular. Subgenital plates elongate, broad basally, tapering apically, with three submarginal microsetae (Fig. 42). Style (Fig. 43) with obtusely angulate preapical lobe, with few microsetae, apophysis short, 0.2 of total length. Connective (Fig. 47) with stem 1.5x shorter than arms. Aedeagal shaft in posterior view swollen in subapical 1/3, narrowed apically and in middle, broad basally, with pair of moderately robust, sinuate or straight apical processes extended anterolaterad, gonopore subapical on ventral margin (Figs. 44–46). Measurements (mm). Male 5.15 long, 1.39 wide across eyes, 1.12 wide across hind margin of pronotum. Type material. Holotype ³, INDIA: Himachal Pradesh: Kinnaur District, Powari (31°31’42”N 78°16’19”E), 14.viii.2017, Sweep net Coll. Rajgopal, N. N. (NPC). Etymology. The species name (Latin: tumid meaning swollen) alludes to the swollen aedeagal shaft. Remarks. Hecalus tumidus sp. nov. externally resembles H. ghaurii (Distant) (Figs. 1, 6, 11, 16–26) but differs in having the head shorter and the aedeagal shaft swollen in the subapical 1/3. The apical pair of processes is thicker and directed ventrally compared to H. ghaurii in which they are thinner and directed laterodorsally.

Published as part of Nikoshe, Akash P., Meshram, Naresh M., Stuti & Dey, Debjani, 2020, Indian Hecalina (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Hecalini) with description of three new species, pp. 573-585 in Zootaxa 4881 (3) on pages 579-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.3.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4283982