New records of Pseudophatnoma laosana B. Lis, 1999 (Hemiptera: Tingoidea: Cantacaderidae) from China and Thailand, with illustration of its male genitalia
Author
Lis, Barbara
Author
Dang, Kai
Author
Bu, Wenjun
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
4
595
598
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.10
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1175-5326
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Genus
Pseudophatnoma
Blöte, 1945
Pseudophatnoma
Blöte, 1945
: 78
;
Drake and Ruhoff, 1965
: 40
;
Péricart, 1991
: 49
;
Froeschner, 1996
: 15
;
Lis, 1999a
: 28
. Type-species by original designation:
Pseudophatnoma corniculata
Blöte, 1945
.
Froeschnerocader
Péricart, 1986
: 245; synonymized by
Péricart, 1991
: 49. Type-species by original designation:
Froeschnerocader
denticollis
Péricart, 1986
.
Diagnostic characters for the genus.
Head apex not reaching the distal ends of the first antennal segment; head dorsal surface with two pairs of thin long spines, i.e., the jugo-frontal spines (located on the level of the base of the clypeus), and the preocular spines (located between the eyes); bucculae very low (
Fig. 1
). Rostrum long, reaching at least the third abdominal segment (
Fig. 1
C). Pronotal disc convex with five longitudinal carinae (
Fig. 1
B); paranota wide, bilobed, bearing the forward-directed spine-like projection in its triangular anterior lobe (
Figs. 1
A and B). Scutellum entirely or partially covered by the posterior margin of pronotum. Hemelytra wide, broadly expanded at their bases, tiny areolated; its costal area wide, bearing 9–11 rows of areolae at mid-length; subcostal area with several indistinct transverse veins; discoidal area with one or two transverse veins.
FIGURE 1.
Pseudophatnoma laosana
: A—body dorsal view B—head and pronotum, dorsal view, C—head and thorax, ventral view. Scale bar=1.0 mm.
FIGURE 2.
Pseudophatnoma laosana
: A—pygophore, dorsal view, B—pygophore, ventral view. Scale bar=0.5 mm.
Diagnostic characters for
P. laosana
. It differs from other species of the genus in having the scutellum not entirely covered by the posterior margin of pronotum and therefore partially visible in dorsal view –
Fig. 1
B (in the two other species it is invisible, being entirely covered by the posterior margin of pronotum). Moreover, the costal area is widest at its posterior part (
Fig. 1
), whereas in
P. denticollis
and
P. corniculata
it is widest at its mid-length. The male genitalia are illustrated in
Fig. 2
.
Material examined
.
CHINA
:
1♂
, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Mengla County, Menglun Township, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (
21.93°N
,
101.25°E
),
531 m
,
15.VIII.2010
, light trapped, K. Dang leg.
THAILAND
:
1♂
, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Sakaerat Silvicultural Research Station,
25.IX.2013
, A. Wolski leg.
Distribution
.
China
(new record),
Laos
,
Thailand
(new record).
Remarks
. Sizes of both newly collected specimens differ from those of the
type
specimen from
Laos
; therefore, updated measurements (in mm) for
P. laosana
are provided as follows: total body length: 7.41–7.70; body width: 3.57– 3.70; length of pronotum: 1.45–1.90; width of pronotum: 1.85–2.00; length of hemelytra: 5.18–5.45; length of discoidal area: 3.40–3.60; length of antennal segments: I 0.25–0.26, II 0.22–0.23, III 2.96–3.28, IV 0.57–0.64.