On the identity of Chunra gigantea Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), the largest member of the arboreal leafhopper subfamily Idiocerinae
Author
Wei, Cong
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2010
2674
26
32
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.199185
86284041-73ca-43ef-b817-5951a4691c71
1175-5326
199185
Kuchingella gigantea
(Distant)
(
Figs 1
–33)
Chunra gigantea
Distant, 1908
: 136
, plate VII, fig. 11, 11a
Description.
Body length: male, 11.2 mm; female, 9.8 mm. Apex of anteclypeus blackish brown (
Figs 3
); eye brown (in male) or reddish brown (in female). Pronotum and scutellum with large blackish brown patches (
Fig. 2
).
Male pygofer in lateral view (Fig. 24) with dorsoposterior corner acute and ventroposterior corner produced into an upturned process. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 29, 30) compressed dorsoventrally, abruptly tapered to digitate apex in lateral view; distally tapered to narrow concave apex in ventral view, with lateral margins slightly incurved at midlength,.
Other characters are as described for the genus.
Material examined:
Malaysia
: 1Ψ
lectotype
(here designated), Borneo, Kuching,
25-March-1902
; 1Ψ
paralectotype
same data; 1ɗ,
Sarawak
, Gunong Mulu National Park, Feburary,
150 m
, J.D. Holloway (
BMNH
).
Remarks.
This species was originally described from an unspecified number of female specimens with original data “Borneo, Kuching (Shelford); S.-E. Province (Doherty)”, of which two female
syntypes
are deposited in BMNH labeled “Kuching
Mar. 25 1902
”. One of these specimens, bearing Distant’s determination label and “Distant Coll. 1911-383”, and with wings spread as in Distant’s figure, is designated as
lectotype
. The male of this species is described here for the first time.