A review of the Afrotropical jumping plant-lice of the Phacopteronidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)
Author
Malenovský, Igor
Author
Burckhardt, Daniel
text
Zootaxa
2009
2009-04-29
2086
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2086.1.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.2086.1.1
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Pseudophacopteron geminum
sp.nov.
(
Figs. 53
, 148–150, 245)
Description.
Adult (known only from slide-mounted males). Colour. Antenna with segments 1–2 basally and segment 3 apically brown, segments 4–8 apically and segments 9–10 entirely dark brown to black. Legs light; femora with a dark brown patch subapically. Forewing membrane clear, transparent, with a narrow dark brown patch along apical portion of vein Rs, light brown infuscations along almost full lenghts of veins M
1+2
and M
3+4
, oval light brown patch around apical half of vein Cu
1a
and indistinct infuscations along vein Cu
1b
and across Cu
1
and M (
Fig. 53
). Veins light except for brown C+Sc, dark brown apical portion of Rs and dark brown spots in middle of R+M+Cu
1
, at base of R, on forks of M and Cu
1
, touching point of Rs and M
1+2
, in middle of Cu
1a
, on apices of M
1+2
, M
3+4
, Cu
1a
and Cu
1b
, and two spots on anal vein. Hind wing clear, transparent; C+Sc brown.
Morphology. Head similar to
P. zimmermanni
. Antenna relatively slender, segments cylindrical, weakly widening to apex; terminal setae subequal, about 1.5 times longer than segments 9 and 10 together (
Fig. 245
). Fore wing relatively narrow, pyriform, apex broadly rounded; surface spinulation not observed. Hind legs long and slender; metatibia with 7–8 relatively sparsely arranged apical spurs and several similar spurs laterally; metabasitarsus distinctly longer than broad. Male proctiger relatively long and slender (Fig. 148). Paramere, in lateral view, straight and parallel-sided, apex broadly rounded, with an apical tooth (Figs. 148–149). Distal segment of aedeagus with relatively long shaft and hooked and apically broadly rounded apical dilation (Fig. 150). Measurements and ratios in Tabs. 2–4.
Female and larva unknown.
Host plant and biology.
Unknown.
Distribution.
Kenya
.
Material examined.
Holotype
,
♂
,
KENYA
:
Muguga
,
September 1953
(
V. F. Eastop
).
Slide-mounted
[
BMNH
]
.
Paratype
:
1 ♂
, same data as holotype but
July–August 1954
. Slide-mounted [
BMNH
]
.
Etymology.
From the Latin adjectiv
geminus
= twinned, referring to its close ressemblance to
P. hankae
.
Comments.
P. geminum
is similar to
P. hankae
in size and in fore wing shape and coloration. Both species occur in
Kenya
. Since
P. geminum
is known only from males and
P. hankae
only from females, comparisons of male and female terminalia is currently impossible.
P. geminum
differs from
P. hankae
in the more extensive brown pattern on fore wings and in the slightly longer terminal setae on the antenna. The shape of paramere and distal segment of the aedeagus are similar to
P. kala
and
P. nothospondiadis
(Figs. 142–147). These latter species, however, have slightly different fore wing patterns (
Figs. 51–52
) and relatively slender and longer antenna, with shorter terminal setae.