Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species
Author
Peng, Ling-Fei
Author
Fletcher, Murray J.
Author
Zhang, Ya-Lin
text
Zootaxa
2012
3399
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281824
19d4224a-8697-45ea-b361-6c396a43eb69
1175-5326
281824
8.
Flata stellaris
(
Walker, 1851
)
(
Fig. 1
D)
Cicada ocellata
Fabricius, 1775
: 682
, preoccupied by
Cicada ocellata
De Geer, 1773
Flata ocellata
(
Fabricius), Fabricius, 1798
: 517
Poeciloptera stellaris
Walker, 1851
: 453
Poeciloptera argiolus
Stål, 1855
: 191
, synonymised by
Stål, 1862
: 489
Flata stellaris
(Walker)
,
Kirby, 1891
: 155
Cryptoflata flavoguttata
Melichar, 1902
: 21
, synonymised by
Medler, 2006
: 240
Flata ocellata
(Fabricius)
,
Distant, 1906
, fig. 225
Cryptoflata flavoguttata
Melichar, 1902
: 21
, synonymised by
Melichar, 1923
: 41
Flata stellaris
var.
flavoguttata
(Melichar)
,
Metcalf, 1957
: 177
Type
.
Holotype
of
P. stellaris
(not examined), no abdomen, Africa (no locality) (
BMNH
).
Holotype
of
P. argiolus
(not examined), no abdomen, no locality (
NHRS
).
Lectotype
of
C. flavoguttata
Ƥ, (not examined), designated by
Medler, 1986a
: 48,
Sri Lanka
(
ZMHB
).
This species was not examined by the authors. The following description is from
Distant (1906)
.
“Body and legs pale ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous, the pronotum and mesonotum sometimes not concolorous; tegmina very pale virescent, veins a little darker, interspersed with small dull sanguineous spots, extreme edges of costal and posterior margins pale ochraceous; wings creamy-white; tegmina with the clavus somewhat coarsely granulose, the costal membrane slightly cretaceously tomentose, the apical margin a little sinuate before posterior angle. Length excludes tegmina
8 mm
; tegmina spread
23 mm
”.
The male genitalia of a plesiotype (
Fig. 1
D) is reproduced from
Medler (2006)
.
Distribution.
India
;
Indonesia
;
Sri Lanka
.
No Remarks.