New Guinean Issidae: description of new taxa in a poorly known island fauna (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea)
Author
Gnezdilov, V. M.
Author
Cesne, M. Le
Author
Soulier-Perkins, A.
Author
Bourgoin, T.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3904
1
journal volume
10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.4
4f725a1c-dd26-4fcb-be6b-8102b9c5ad66
1175-5326
240866
D7CE0A36-FC14-42CD-8BCA-3B5C7FD1CA65
Papunega
Gnezdilov et Bourgoin
, gen. nov.
Type
species:
Papunega magnifacies
sp. nov.
Description.
Metope wide, with thick subapical transverse carina (
Figs 2
,
14
). Metope convex (visible from above), but in the same time flattened together with clypeus. Lateral margins (keels) of metope raised, slightly leafshaped above pedicel. Metopoclypeal suture distinct, complete, widely convex. Pedicel elongate and cylindrical. Coryphe transverse, usually with two large tubercles near its posterior margin besides of median line (
Figs 1
,
13
). Paradiscal fields of pronotum behind the eyes very narrow. No ocelli. Fore wings elongate (
Figs 3
,
15
), weakly narrowing to rounded apices, without hypocostal plate. R 2 M 4–5 CuA 2, with many transverse veins.
Hind
wings well developed, 3-lobed (
Fig. 4
).
Hind
tibia with 2 lateral spines distally and 7 spines apically. First metatarsomere with 2 lateral and 5–7 intermediate (in entire row) spines apically.
Etymology.
Generic name is derived from the combination of words "
Papua
", "New", and "
Guinea
". Gender feminine.
Comparison.
Related to the genus
Tetrica
Stål
(
type
species:
Tetrica fusca
Stål, 1870
), but distinguished as follows: metope with tiny or without median carina (strong median carina which runs through whole metope (
Figs 20, 21
) from its upper margin in
T. fusca
); postclypeus without median carina (distinct carina in
T. fusca
(
Fig. 21
); fore wings without hypocostal plate (present in
T. fusca
(
Fig. 22
); basal cell of fore wings oval and elongated (wide in
T. fusca
(
Fig. 22
)).