A review of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Canary Islands, with descriptions of two new genera and sixteen new species
Author
Bastin, Saskia
sbastin@icia.es
Author
Burckhardt, Daniel
daniel.burckhardt@bs.ch
Author
Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo
areyes@icia.es
Author
Hernández-Suárez, Estrella
sbastin@icia.es
Author
Ouvrard, David
david.ouvrard@anses.fr
text
Zootaxa
2023
2023-07-04
5313
1
1
98
http://dx.doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-22-0755-PDN
journal article
58207
10.11646/zootaxa.5313.1.1
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*
Percyella guanche
Bastin, Burckhardt & Ouvrard
sp. nov.
(
Figs 86–88
,
277–280
)
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Material examined.
Holotype
♂,
Tenerife
:
Puerto de la Cruz
,
28.5519 N
,
16.3430 W
,
70 m
alt.,
22.iii.2022
,
Convolvulus floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
NHMB
, dry mounted).
Paratypes
.
La Palma:
1 ♂,
4 ♀
,
3 immatures
,
El Paso
,
28.6493 N
,
17.9015 W
,
390 m
alt.,
8.i.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, slide mounted, 70% ethanol).
Tenerife
:
1 ♀
, parque rural
de Anaga
,
Base of Roque de En
medio, above town of Taganana,
300 m
alt.,
25.iv.1998
,
C. floridus
(D. Percy)
(
DMPC
, slide mounted)
;
8 immatures
, Masca,
Barranco de Masca
,
400 m
alt.,
23.ii.2005
,
C. floridus
(D. Burckhardt)
(
NHMB
, slide mounted); 7 ♂
,
8 ♀
,
2 immatures
,
Tegueste
,
28.5211 N
,
16.3353 W
,
410 m
alt.,
20.viii.2020
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, 70% ethanol); 1 ♂
,
22 immatures
Buenavista del Norte
,
28.3694 N
,
16.8495 W
,
130 m
alt.,
1.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, slide mounted, 70% ethanol); 1 ♂
,
9 immatures
,
El Tanque
,
28.3664 N
,
16.7749 W
,
320 m
alt.,
1.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, slide mounted, 70% ethanol)
;
2 immatures
,
Garachico
,
El Guincho
,
28.3735 N
,
16.7451 W
,
70 m
alt.,
1.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, 70% ethanol). 1 ♂
,
3 ♀
,
20 immatures
,
Puerto de la Cruz
,
28.5519 N
,
16.3430 W
,
70 m
alt.,
22.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, slide mounted, 70% ethanol)
;
1 ♀
,
5 immatures
, same data but (
NHMB
, 70% ethanol); 1 ♂
,
2 immatures
,
Taganana
,
28.5651 N
,
16.2143 W
,
100 m
alt.,
6.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, 70% ethanol)
;
22 immatures
,
Las Gaviotas
,
28.5159 N
,
16.1768 W
,
130 m
alt.,
16.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, 70% ethanol)
;
15 immatures
,
Bajamar
,
28.5527 N
,
16.3431 W
,
64 m
alt.,
16.iii.2022
,
C. floridus
(S. Bastin)
(
SBPC
, slide mounted, 70% ethanol)
.
Description. Adult.
Colouration
of dry material. General body colour dark brown. Vertex brown yellowish, genal processes brown yellowish. Antenna brown yellowish, segments 3–6 each with black apex, segments 7 and 8 each with apical half black, and segments 9 and 10 entirely black. Thoracic dorsum dark brown yellowish to dark brown with two light yellow spots on each side of mesoscutum. Forewing transparent, veins brown. Abdominal sclerites dark brown yellowish to dark brown, intersegmental membranes yellow. Male proctiger brown yellowish; paramere brown yellowish with black apex; subgenital plate brown yellowish, sometimes black basally. Female terminalia brown yellowish.
Structure
. Body length 1.5–1.9. Vertex 0.6–0.8 times as long as broad. Genal processes 0.2–0.3 times as long as vertex. Antenna 1.9–2.9 times as long as head width. Metatibia 0.9–1.1 times as long as head width. Forewing 4.4–4.9 times as long as head width, 2.4–2.7 times as long as wide; vein M 1.7–2.3 times longer than vein M
1+2
; m
1
cell value 1.3–1.8; vein Cu
1a
1.5–2.3 times longer than vein Cu
;
cu
1
cell value 0.8–1.2. Male terminalia as in
Figs 86–88
. Proctiger 0.6 times as long as head width. Paramere 0.5 times as long as proctiger, sub-parallel with anterior margin slightly curved, posterior margin straight then curved apically, digitiform apical process with posterior margin sinuate, forming a strongly sclerotised small, posteriorly directed tooth. Apical segment of aedeagus 1.1
–
1.2 times as long as paramere. Female proctiger 0.8 times as long as head width; circumanal ring 0.3–0.4 as long as proctiger.
Measurements (in mm) (3 ♂,
5 ♀
). Head width ♂ 0.46–0.51,
♀
0.47–0.58; vertex length ♂ 0.18,
♀
0.17–0.24; vertex width ♂ 0.27–0.29,
♀
0.26–0.32; antenna length ♂ 1.34–1.45,
♀
0.91–1.28; metatibia length ♂ 0.50–0.57,
♀
0.48–0.54; forewing length ♂ 2.07–2.3,
♀
2.42–2.541; forewing width ♂ 0.78–0.87,
♀
0.91–1.05; male proctiger length 0.28–0.30; paramere length 0.14–0.16; distal segment of aedeagus length 0.17; female proctiger length 0.36– 0.41; female anal ring length 0.11–0.14.
Fifth-instar immature.
Corresponding to the generic description, see also comments below.
Etymology.
Named after the Guanches, the pre-Castillian inhabitants of Tenerife who were defeated in the Battle of Aguere by the Castillians.
Host plant CI.
Convolvulus floridus
(Convolvulaceae)
.
Distribution CI.
Tenerife, adventive in La Palma.
Percyella guanche
is native to Tenerife. Its presence in an urban environment in La Palma suggests an accidental introduction along with the host plant.
Biology.
In the galls, we observed immatures and adults of the predator
Anthocoris salicis
Lindberg
(
Hemiptera
:
Anthocoridae
), also ectoparasitic mites (Prostigmata:
Trombidiidae
) attached to both adults and immatures (
Fig. 277
).
Comments.
Percyella guanche
differs from the other
Percyella
species
in the paramere shape: the posterior and anterior margins are almost parallel (not parallel in
P. benahorita
,
P. gomerita
or
P. canari
); also the posterior margin of the apical process is sinuate with a hump (almost straight in
P. benahorita
, straight in
P. gomerita
and slightly sinuate in
P. canari
). No characters were found to separate the females and immatures of
P. guanche
from its other congeners.