The old-world Zygonini tr. nov. (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea, Clastopteridae), with new taxa from the related Machaerotinae
Author
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3768
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437
459
journal article
46336
10.11646/zootaxa.3768.4.3
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Machaeropsis dramatica
sp. nov.
Etymology.
Greek adjective for “dramatic”.
Diagnosis.
Ivory, boldly striped with dark brown across tylus, crown and twice across eyes, twice on anterior margin of pronotum, and with 7 longitudinal stripes extending backwards, with only median line meeting posterior transverse band; scutellum and base of tegmen black with contrasting yellow ridges on scutellum and second claval vein, ivory between vein bases; rest of tegmen hyaline with dark brown veins (
Fig. 14
A); underside with brown stripes on frontal arcs, across gena, and on pleura just below costa of folded tegmina; midline of face broadly black with oval orange disc near tip of head; legs with 2 longitudinal bands on femur, 2 transverse bands on tibia, tarsi black with pale marks towards tip of each tarsomere on upper surface. Ovipositor blade
0.7 mm
long, a third as wide as long, dorsal margin straight but shallowly emarginate at middle for half its length, tip bluntly pointed (
Fig. 17K
). Length: male 5.0–
5.1 mm
; female
5.5 mm
.
Types
.
Holotype
male, [BORNEO:]
SARAWAK
- Gunong Mulu N. Pk., Long
Pala
(base)
70 m
, site 16, March (J.D. Holloway) 324450, RGS Mulu exped. B.M. 1978–206; alluv./second. for., MV-on batu-canopy.
Paratypes
:
1 female
, same data as
holotype
;
1 male
, same park, base camp,
May–Aug. 1978
(P.M. Hammond & J.E.
Marshall
) B.M. 1978–49. All
types
in BMNH.
Remarks.
This species keys to the type-species of the genus,
M. valida
Melichar
from
Ceylon
(
Maa 1963
), but has the heiroglyphic markings of the dorsum as in
M. rubrolineata
Maa
from
Thailand
. The markings, however, are blackish rather than red.