Contributions to the genus Ulonemia Drake and Poor (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species Author Dang, Kai Author Li, Chuanren Author Guilbert, Eric Author Bu, Wenjun text Zootaxa 2014 3878 1 49 60 journal article 36773 10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.4 a282ccfb-f424-4f32-9a74-e6888db04caf 1175-5326 287335 121B7DAA-DEBC-4E33-A66A-9B88F5FA51BB Ulonemia assamensis (Distant, 1903) Figs. 1, 2 , 7 , 11 , 15 , 19 Teleonemia assamensis Distant 1903a : 49 [ India ]; 1903b: 143, fig.106; Drake 1937: 592 [ China ]. Perissonemia assamensis : Drake and Poor 1936 : 439 [ China : Hainan, Taiwan ]. Perissonemia ( Ulonemia ) assamensis : Takeya 1951 : 18 . Ulonemia assamensis : Drake and Ruhoff 1960a : 29 ; Takeya 1962 : 57 [ China : Taiwan , Fujian, Guangdong]; Drake and Ruhoff 1965a : 420 ; Jing, 1981 : 289 [ China : Guangxi]; Péricart 1996: 44, lectotype designated; Péricart and Golub 1996 : 77 [ China , Borneo, India , Vietnam ]; Tomokuni 2007 : 64 , fig. 8 [ China : Taiwan ]. Redescription. Body elongate, pale brown; head black, densely covered with pale pruinescence, antennal segments brown, segment IV dark brown ( Fig. 1 ), clothed with pale pubescence; paranota yellowish brown. Ventral surface of body brown ( Fig. 15 ). Head short, front and median spine stout, suberect, occipital ones slender, appressed, reaching forwards to middle of eyes ( Figs. 7 , 11 ); bucculae narrow, tapering anteriorly, opening in front, mostly biseriate, inferior margins nearly straight ( Fig. 11 ); rostral sulcus narrow, nearly parallel, opening behind; rostrum extending to middle of metasternum ( Fig. 15 ). Pronotum rather strongly convex, distinctly punctate ( Figs. 7 , 11 ); hood inflated, globular in dorsal view ( Fig. 7 ), height shorter than median carina, six areolae long, five areolae broad on each side, anterior margin produced, arched, posteriorly produced, reaching pronotal disc ( Fig. 11 ); median carina contiguous to hood, somewhat raised, height higher than lateral carinae, uniseriate, with miniscule areolae; lateral carinae ridge-like, not areolate, slightly converging anteriorly, curved and converging posteriorly towards the pronotal posterior process, there, distance between lateral and median carina two areolae wide; paranota reflexed dorsally, narrow, distinctly biseriate at calli, narrower posteriorly, uniseriate opposite humeri ( Fig. 11 ). Calli and thorax ventral surface densely covered with white pruinescence. Hemelytra slightly wider than pronotum, margins nearly straight ( Figs. 1, 2 ); costal area narrow, regularly uniseriate, areolae mostly widthwise ablong to subquadrate; subcostal area slightly wider than costal area, regularly biseriate, areolae round; discoidal area extending more than half the length of hemelytron, seven areolae broad at widest part; sutural area wider than discoidal area, ten areolae broad at widest part, areolae polygonal; areolae subquadrate on hypocostal laminae. Female paratergite VIII distinctly produced posteriorly towards lateral margin of paratergite IX ( Fig. 19 ). Measurements. Males ( N =3) and females ( N =3) respectively. Total body length (male/female): 3.44–3.56 (3.51)/3.60–3.68 (3.65); body width (across hemelytra): 1.06–1.12 (1.09)/1.20–1.24 (1.23); antennal segments I: 0.20–0.22 (0.21)/0.22–0.24 (0.23); II: 0.12–0.14 (0.13)/0.12–0.14 (0.13); III: 1.56–1.58 (1.57)/1.52–1.54 (1.53); IV: 0.62–0.64 (0.63)/0.60–0.64 (0.62); pronotum length: 1.64–1.66 (1.65)/1.70–1.80 (1.75); width: 0.99–1.00 (1.00)/1.04–1.12 (1.07); hemelytra length: 2.48–2.64 (2.55)/2.60–2.68 (2.63); discoidal area length: 1.42–1.46 (1.44)/1.56–1.60 (1.58). Material examined. Guangxi Province : 2 males , 4 females , Longsheng County, Cu Jiang (Licu Jiang) ( N25.60 , E 109.91 ). 23.VIII.1964 , Liangchen Wang leg. ( NKUM ); 1 male , China , Longsheng County, along the way form Tianpingshan Mountain to Baiya, 30.VIII.1964 , Liangchen Wang leg. ( NKUM ); 1 male , China , Huaping, Hongtan, Huaping Natural Reserve ( N 25.59 , E 109.97 ), 12.VI.1963 , Chikun Yang leg. (The Department of Plant Protection, Beijing Agricultural University) ( NKUM ). Discussion. These specimens were previously identified as U. assamensis (Distant, 1903) by Jing (1981) . After reviewing the lectotype deposited in the British Museum of Natural History (BMNH) in London, by authors Dr. E. Guilbert and Mr. K. Dang ( Fig. 2 , dorsal photograph of lectotype habitus; Fig. 4 , photographs of type label information), we concur with Jing’s the identification.