A new tribe and species of Clastopterinae (Hemiptera: Cercopoidea: Clastopteridae) from Africa, Asia and North America
Author
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3946
2
151
189
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3946.2.1
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Sepullia
Stål, 1866
:79
.
Type-species by subsequent designation (
Distant 1908
a
):
Clastoptera murrayi
[
Fairmaire and] Signoret, 1858
.
Distribution.
Tropical Africa, from
Ethiopia
west to
Senegal
, and south along the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Serro do Humbe mountains of western
Angola
.
Diagnosis.
Robust; head very short, half length of pronotum, or less; tylus distinct but coplanar with crown; crown very short and broad, unmarked, pitted or transversely banded; face black (
Fig. 6
D) contrasting strongly with pale yellow to rufous upper half of frons; antennal ledges smaller than those of other Sepulliini, similar to those of
Clastoptera
, with 3 preantennal bristles before antennal pit,
2 in
horizontal row and 1 below the 2nd as in
Iba
; postpedicel as in
Beesoniella
, but placoid sensillum bean-shaped in outline, surrounded by non-septate groove, and coeloconic pit set near base (as in Fig. 23D); pronotum steeply declivous, usually minutely pitted and shiny; tegmina usually finely pitted without bullae; veins inconspicuous; legs as in
Abbalomba
.
Male
genitalia as in
Grellaphia
, but pygofer process digitate (as in
Fig. 17
A), theca with furcate socle, shaft very short, vasiform, containing tubular endotheca (
Figs 18
C–D). Ovipositor with 2nd valvulae blunt-tipped (
Fig. 11
M–P), otherwise as in
Patriziana
. Length:
3–5 mm
.
Included taxa.
Eight species, two of which are described below.
Remarks.
The species of
Sepullia
have been much confused with those of the widespread genus
Tremapterus
that have similar male genitalia. The body shape and antennal characters are quite different in these two genera, and preliminary barcoding data show that the extreme forms
Sepullia
(most robust, tegmina weakly pitted and with venation obscure) and
Patriziana
(most slender, venation and wing sculpturing most obvious) are divergent by 14% (
Hamilton 2014
), a differentiation significantly greater than the 9% divergence separating
Orthorapha
Westwood
(s.s.) and its subgenus
Lepyronoxia
Melichar (Hamilton 2013)
.