A review of the genus Kanakia Distant, 1892 (Insecta: Hemiptera, Cicadoidea, Cicadidae) from New Caledonia
Author
Delorme, Quentin
Author
Mille, Christian
Author
Jourdan, Hervé
text
Zootaxa
2016
4092
3
301
338
journal article
51581
10.11646/zootaxa.4092.3.1
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Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 16–21
)
Material examined.
Holotype
male (MNHN 22740) and allotype female,
New Caledonia
, Province Nord, Koumac, Tiébaghi
,
27/I/2015
,
Quentin Delorme
caught by net. Coll. Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris.
Paratypes
:
1 male
Delorme rec
, same locality, caught by net,
26/I/2015
(MNHN);
1 male
Delorme rec
, same locality, caught by net,
27/I/2015
. Other material:
1 male
Salesne rec
,
New Caledonia
, Province Nord, Koumac, Tiébaghi, at light
15/III/2013
(MNHN),
1 male
Salesne rec
, same locality, caught by net
12/I/2013
(MNHN);
1 male
Salesne rec
, same locality, at light
13/I/2013
(CXMNC).
Derivation of name.
Species dedicated to Mr. Thierry Salesne, a New Caledonian entomologist who first caught this species.
Morphology.
(
Figs. 16–20
)
Male
(
Figs. 16–19
).
Head.
Vertex greenish to yellowish except black posterior part behind lateral ocellus. Ocelli pink, separated by distance equal to 1.5 times width of an ocellus. Each ocellus set on yellowish part of vertex. Eyes greenish, prominent, wider than long. Epicranial suture deep yellowish to greenish. Dorsal postclypeal uniformly greenish. Scape yellowish and supra-antennal plate entirely blackish. Antennal flagella and pedicel black. Posclypeus slightly domed yellowish with wide median blackish spot notched in its superior part; the notch reaching half of the spot or reaching the sixth transversal groove. Anteclypeus bicolor; lateral parts blackish covered by long silvered hairs and median part yellowish to greenish and hairless. Rostrum with labrum and mentum greenish. Labium greenish with blackish tip. Gena and lorum mostly brownish covered by dense and long silvered hairs.
Thorax.
Pronotum green with characteristic black ornamentation (
Fig. 16
); paramedian fissure greenish and lateral fissure with brown ornamentations. Pronotal collar greenish to yellowish; lateral parts with two prominent green lobes; posterior lobe with brown anterior spot coming from ambient fissure. Mesonotum mostly brown with wide green ornamentations along parapsidal suture and median part. Scutal depression with circular black patch. Metanotum and cruciform elevation entirely brown. Opercula brownish, domed with sparse long hairs on the margin.
Wings.
On forewings, radial and radiomedial crossveins with brown infuscation. Hindwing hyaline; ambient vein brownish, vannus and jugum hyaline with brown infuscation at margin.
Legs.
Fore legs with coxa brownish with margin of lateral sides greenish; trochanter greenish with wide brownish patch in inner side. Femur greenish with wide brown longitudinal lines, bearing three spines. Tibia brownish with short golden hairs. Mid legs with coxa greenish to yellowish with linear brown spot on medio anterior side; trochanter greenish with wide brownish patch in inner and lateral side; femur greenish with three longitudinal brown lines on interior side; tibiae and tarsi entirely brownish covered by short golden hairs.
Abdomen.
Tergites much darker than in
K. paniensis
Delorme
n. sp.
and
K. typica
in overall; tergite 2 entirely yellowish. Tergites 3 to 7 with dorsal discontinuous black median line. Tergites 3 to 7 greenish with black lateral spot wider at base and getting thinner upwards, occupying at least half of tergite width on tergites 3 to 5 and fading on tergites 6 and 7. Tergite 8 mostly black with posterior third greenish. Sternites 4 to 8 yellowish with wide black lateral margin. Timbal with four longs ribs fused dorsally; ribs 1 and 2 fused ventrally; three intercalary short ribs.
Genitalia.
Pygofer brownish to blackish with yellowish upper lobe, basal lobe and dorsal beak. Median lobe of uncus curved downwards and obtuse. Thecal pseudoparameres of aedeagus slender, curved downwards and undulated.
FIGURE 16.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, dorsal view of holotype male (Photography: Laurent Fauvre, MNHN).
FIGURE 17.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, ventral view of holotype male (Photography: Laurent Fauvre, MNHN).
FIGURE 18.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, pygofer lateral view of holotype male (Photography: Laurent Fauvre, MNHN).
Body measurements
(in mm, first value refer to
holotype
, second and third value refer to
paratypes
males). FL: 62.3, 51.0, 51.7; FW: 19.5, 17.1, 18.2; HW: 12.7, 10.5, 10.8; HL: 4.4, 4.1, 4.2; BL: 47.5, 40.5, 42.0; PL: 5.4, 6.0, 5.5; PW: 13.1, 10.2, 10.7.
Song patterns.
Male calling song (
Fig. 21
) formed by short echemes repeated at constant rate of one echeme every 10 to 11 seconds in normal condition. Echemes duration varies between 45 to 62 ms. Each echemes composed by 3 or 4 groups of pulse. Echeme amplitude range covers frequency from 1.2 kHz to 4 kHz. The main energy is contended between 1.5 kHz to 2.9 kHz and a maximum of energy at 2.4 kHz.
Female
(
Fig.20
).
Head.
Colouration similar to that of male.
Thorax.
Colouration and black ornamentation of pronotum similar to that of male. Mesonotum colouration similar to that of male.
Legs.
Similar in colour to those of male.
FIGURE 19.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, pygofer ventral view of holotype male (Photography: Laurent Fauvre, MNHN).
FIGURE 20.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, dorsal view of allotype female (Photography: Quentin Delorme, IAC).
FIGURE 21.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
, New Caledonia, Tiébaghi, 26/I/2015, 18h00. Graphic representation of male calling song. A) Oscillogram of a record during 61 seconds. B) Oscillogram of a call. C) Spectrogram of a call. D) Power spectrum.
Abdomen.
Tergites darker in colouration to those of male with similar lateral black ornamentations; abdominal segment 9 yellowish with a pair of longitudinal near-dorsal black fasciae that extend to the anterior edge and ventrolaterally to some extent, dorsal beak terminally pointed; sternites colouration similar to that of male.
Genitalia.
Ovipositor sheath black with long golden hairs, reaching approximately the tip of dorsal beak of abdominal segment 9.
Body measurements
of allotype (in mm). FL: 51.0; FW: 18.3; HW: 11.2; HL: 4.1; BL: 35.9; PL: 5.8; PW: 11.0.
Distribution.
North-west coast of
New Caledonia
(Koumac, Tiébaghi montain) (
Fig. 33
).
Habitat and ecology.
Kanakia salesnii
Delorme
sp. nov.
inhabits old mining forest formation where Niaouli trees (
Melaleuca quinquenervia
) are dominant and deep humid soils formation where Mango tree (
Mangifera indica
L.) and Banyan tree (
Ficus
spp.) are growing. The station discovered at Tiébaghi is localized on ultramafic soils. Reproduction station localized in abandoned garden of the old village. In this station many exuviae where collected. No information is available on seasonality and peak period of emergence.