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
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Paurocephala lucida
sp. n.
(gures 5D, H, I)
Description.
Species of the
gossypii
type
.
Adult: head yellow; vertex covered by inconspicuous setae. Clypeus brown. Antenna yellow, apical half of segment 8 and entire segments 9 and 10 brown; segment 9 without a long basal seta. Thorax yellow and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally, brown laterally and ventrally. Metascutellar horn small, blunt apically. Forewing transparent; veins yellow, apically light brown to forewing margin, central part of vein A brown; pterostigma yellow. Forewing with inconspicuous setae on veins (vein Rs with 23–25 setae); Rs vein strongly curved at apical third. Surface spinules sparse, present in distal parts of cells m1, m2 and cu1 and throughout cu2; radular spinules lacking. Legs including tarsal segments, yellow to brown. Meracanthus short, laterally curved, rounded apically. Abdomen, including genitalia, brown. Male unknown. Measurements and ratios as in
table 2A–C
.
Fifth instar larva: unknown.
Host plants
. The material was collected on owers of
Discopodium penninervium
(Solanaceae)
, an unlikely host.
Distribution
.
Ethiopia
.
Material examined
.
HOLOTYPE
and
PARATYPE
,
Ethiopia
:
Simien Mountains
(
W
Mai Shaha
valley),
ca
9000 ft
,
14 December 1952
, owers of
Discopodium penninverium
(Hugh Scott) (BMNH)
. Dry and slide mounted
.
Comments
.
P. lucida
sp. n.
is distinguished from the other species of the
gossypii
type
by stout setae present on the rst three visible abdominal tergites laterally.