New species and new records of Tingidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) of New Guinea
Author
Guilbert, Eric
text
Zootaxa
2006
1117
37
68
journal article
50786
10.5281/zenodo.171651
f7582322-2924-495a-801e-d85c7db1050b
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171651
Larotingis nonareolae
sp. n.
(
Fig. 10
)
Material examined: 1M, New
Guinea
, NE, Morobe dist., Wau,
8–9.IV.1982
, light trap, R.T. Bell,
BPBM
.
Description: Body brownish to yellowish, a transverse band across middle of hemelytra and apex of sutural area darker; head, hind tarsi, last antennal segment, and calli dark brown. Body length, 3.67; width, 0.93.
Head small, armed with five spines; occipital spines moderately long and slender; frontal and median spines short and bulbous; bucculae long and narrow, triseriate, closed in front; antennae long and slender, antennal segments measurements: I, 0.17; II, 0.1;
III
, 1.23; IV, 0.47; rostral sulcus narrow, metasternal laminae slightly widened at middle, open behind; rostrum reaching mesometasternal suture.
Pronotum long, narrow and strongly gibbose, tricarinate, carinae parallel, slightly raised, uniseriate, the areolae almost indistinct; collar wide, three areolae wide, not raised on top; paranota narrow, uniseriate opposite to calli, the areolae small, otherwise ridgelike, reflexed onto the pronotum.
Hemelytra much longer than abdomen, as narrow as pronotum; costal area straight, narrow, uniseriate, the areolae tiny; subcostal area wider than costal area, biseriate, the areolae small; discoidal area longer than half the hemelytra, nine areolae wide at widest part; sutural area large, 13 areolae wide at widest part, the areolae larger than on other areas.
Etymology: The name is a combination of
nona
(nine) with
areolae
(cells as small delimited spaces). It refers to the nineareolae wide discoidal area, that distinguishes this species from the others.
Comments: The genus
Larotingis
Drake (1960)
contains three species. Two occur in New
Guinea
and one occurs in the
Philippine Islands
. This new species differs from
L. etes
Drake and Ruhoff (1961)
and
L. soror
Péricart (2000)
by the developed median carina on the pronotal hind process.
The occipital spines of
L. etes
are nontubercular. The discoidal area of
L. etes
is eightnine areolae wide, that of
L. aporia
Drake (1960)
is six areolae wide, and that of
L. soror
is five areolae wide.