Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea)
Author
Mifsud, D.
Author
Burckhardt, D.
text
Journal of Natural History
2002
2002-11-30
36
16
1887
1986
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222930110048909
journal article
10.1080/00222930110048909
1464-5262
5299071
Paurocephala stephaniella
sp. n.
(gures 29C, F, I, 30C, F)
Description
. Species of the
brevicephala
type
.
Adult: head and clypeus light brown; vertex covered by inconspicuous setae. Antenna white, segment 8 brown; segment 7 or 8 without a long basal seta. Thorax white and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally, light brown laterally and ventrally. Metascutellar horn large, basally wide, pointed apically. Forewing transparent, with a brown pattern apically and two smaller lighter ones towards centre of forewing and in cell cu2; veins white to yellow, apically light brown to forewing margin; pterostigma white, brown basally and apically. Forewing with inconspicuous setae on veins (vein Rs with 11 –12 setae); Rs vein curved in basal third and apically, forming an S-shape. Surface spinules sparse in cells of forewing, absent in c 1 sc, and con ned apically in r1 and cu1; radular spinules lacking. Legs white, tarsal segments brown. Meracanthus short, straight laterally, rounded apically. Abdomen, including genitalia, white; female unknown. Male paramere elongate, widest basally and directed posteriorly, few relatively long setae posteriorly visible from lateral view. Measurements and ratios as in
table 2A–C
.
Fifth instar larva: unknown.
Host plants
. Unknown.
Distribution
.
Indonesia
(
Sulawesi
).
Material examined
.
HOLOTYPE
and
PARATYPE
,
Indonesia
:
Sulawesi
,
Sulawesi Utara
,
Dumoga-Bone N. P.
,
400 m
,
11 February 1985
(
R
. Ent. Soc. Lond., Project Wallace) (
BMNH
). Dry and slide mounted
.
Comments
.
P. stephaniella
sp. n.
is distinguished from the other species of the
brevicephala
type
by the brown band on forewing.