Cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Mindanao, Philippines, with the description of a new genus and a new species
Author
Lee, Young June
text
Zootaxa
2010
2351
14
28
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.275609
fe0dfe06-b4a9-4f3a-952f-779c6a6e680f
1175-5326
275609
Genus
Oncotympana
Stål, 1870
Pomponia
(
Oncotympana
) Stål, 1870: 710
.
Type
species:
Pomponia
(
Oncotympana
)
pallidiventris
Stål, 1870
(
Fig. 3
A, B).
Oncotympana
: Distant, 1905a: 60
, 70.
Dokuma
Distant, 1905a: 69
.
syn. nov.
Type
species:
Dundubia nigristigma
Walker, 1850
(
Fig. 3
C).
Remarks.
The genus
Dokuma
Distant
syn. nov.
is synonymized here with the genus
Oncotympana
because
Dokuma
has a body size, male opercula, forewing venation, and male genitalia identical with those of
Oncotympana
. The only feature that may distinguish
Dokuma
from
Oncotympana
is the slender and rather cylindrical male abdomen, but this is interpreted as infrageneric variation because the shape of the male abdomen is transitional among the congeners. Based on this synonymization,
Dokuma nigristigma
(Walker)
is transferred to
Oncotympana
to become
Oncotympana nigristigma
(Walker)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 3
C).
The species
Dokuma consobrina
Distant
syn. nov.
(
Fig. 3
D) is here synonymized with
Oncotympana viridicincta
Stål
(
Fig. 3
E) because no morphological differences are found between the two species.
The genus
Oncotympana
has been considered to include eleven species from the
Philippines
and continental Asia (e.g., Metcalf 1963a):
O
.
pallidiventris
(
Fig. 3
A, B),
O
.
viridicincta
(
Fig. 3
D, E),
O
.
fuscata
Distant
(
Fig. 4
),
O
.
maculaticollis
(De Motschulsky)
,
O
.
ella
(Lei & Chou)
,
O
.
expansa
(Walker)
,
O
.
mahoni
Distant
,
O
.
melanoptera
(Distant)
,
O
.
obnubila
(Distant)
,
O
.
stratoria
Distant
, and
O
.
virescens
Distant. However
, the
type
species of this genus (
O
.
pallidiventris
;
Fig. 3
A, B) is not congeneric with
O
.
fuscata
(
Fig. 4
) and its relatives based on the following distinguishing characters: medial pronotal collar very narrow, about one-fifth the length of inner area; male operculum reduced and small, widely separated; forewing with a narrow cubital cell, less than a half the thickness of medial cell; vein radius anterior 2 of forewing nearly straight; male abdomen more or less translucent ventrally; aedeagus very thin; uncal lobes widely separated at base. Therefore,
O
.
fuscata
(
Fig. 4
) and its relatives from the continental
East Asia
,
Japan
, and
India
, which were previously placed in
Oncotympana
, may not be treated as congeneric with
O
.
pallidiventris
(
Fig. 3
A, B). A new genus is erected below to include these species.
As a result of the aforementioned synonymizations and the description of the new genus below, four species are currently included in
Oncotympana
:
O
.
pallidiventris
(
Fig. 3
A, B),
O
.
viridicincta
Stål
(
Fig. 3
D, E),
O
.
nigristigma
(Walker)
comb. nov.
(
Fig. 3
C), and an undescribed
Oncotympana
sp. listed below, all from the
Philippines
.
Key to the species of
Oncotympana
1 Male
abdomen obconical, about as long as wide.......................................................................................................... 2
- Male abdomen cylindrical, much longer than wide...................................................................................................... 3
2 Timbal cover not prominent laterally, making male abdominal tergite 2 including timbal covers about as wide as or slightly wider than tergite 3; male operculum roundish ...........................................................................
pallidiventris
- Timbal cover prominent laterally, making male abdominal tergite 2 including timbal covers much wider than tergite 3; male operculum obliquely rectangular............................................................................................... undescribed sp.
3 Timbal covers widely separated with gap between them about half as wide as timbal cover.....................
viridicincta
- Timbal covers narrowly separated with gap between them less than one-third as wide as timbal cover
.....
nigristigma