Chandibanus dorsospinosus, VIRAKTAMATH & WEBB & YESHWANTH, 2025

Chandibanus dorsospinosus sp. nov.

Figs 1 View FIGURES 1 KL, 8F, 17A–I, 57G–I

Diagnosis. Pale ochraceous, without dark markings on head and pronotum, forewings marked with brown spots. Male pygofer with a human leg-like dorsal process directed posteriorly, aedeagus with dorsal apodeme as long as shaft, shaft with short, subapical ventrally directed processes.

Description. Uniformly yellowish ochraceous. Eyes grayish brown. Forewing with apices of claval veins, clavus and veins reaching costal margin near outer anteapical cell and third apical cell with brown spot, veins bordering apical cells brown. Face, tergites, sternites and legs flavescent.

Crown subconically produced in front of eyes; median sulcus about 0.5× as long as crown.

Male genitalia. Dorsal pygofer process almost as long as pygofer, human leg-like; dorsoposterior angle directed dorsally. Aedeagus with shaft in lateral view broad at base, subapical processes with broad base, apical one third curved slightly; shaft apex concave in dorsal view.

Measurements. Male 4.0 mm long, 1.0 mm wide across eyes and 1.1 mm wide across posterolateral angles of pronotum.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE ♂, INDIA: Punjab: Chandigarh, 16.v.1986, Ex Celtis sinensis, Maninder & Shennmar (UASB) .

Etymology. The specific epithet is the combination of the Latin noun dorsum, -I (=back) and the Latin adjective spinosus, -a, -um (=thorny, prickly), referring to the dorsal process of the male pygofer.

Remarks. This species was collected on Celtis sinensis Pers. ( Cannabaceae ).