The Lanternfly genus Polydictya (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) from Sulawesi and neighbouring islands, with the description of three new species
Author
Constant, Jérôme
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2015
2015-01-26
110
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19
journal article
22448
10.5852/ejt.2015.110
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Polydictya katsurakoae
Nagai & Porion, 1996
Figs 4
,
7
Polydictya katsurakoae
Nagai & Porion, 1996: 13
(listed), 28 (description), pl. 2, fig. 29 (
habitus
illustrated).
Polydictya katsurakoae
–
Chew Kea Foo
et al.
2010: 59
(comparative note).
non
Polydictya katsurakoae
–
Nagai & Porion 2002: 9
(erroneous record from Wowoni Island based on specimens of
P. basirubra
sp. nov.
).
Diagnosis
(1) Tegmina brown, tinged with reddish ventrally, and with whitish spots: large one at apex of clavus, 3 along claval suture, 3–4 along costal margin and 3 on disc of membrane (
Fig. 4
A–B); (2) hind wings without basal red patch (
Fig. 4A
); (3) frons regularly rounded in dorsal view, not projecting anteriorly (
Fig. 4C
), yellow-brown (
Fig. 4D
); (4) anterior tibiae not laminate (
Fig. 4B
); (5) abdomen red dorsally (
Fig. 4A
); (6) genital segments red.
Type material examined
Holotype
♀
: [
Palolo,
VI
.91, C.
Sulawesi
,
Col. Thierry Porion
] [
Polydictya kasturakoae
n. sp.
,
Holotype
♀
, Nagai- Porion 1996] [
EUM
type No
. 736] (
EUM
)
Paratype
1 ♀
: [Palolo, VI.91, C.
Sulawesi
,
Indonesia
, Col. Thierry Porion] [
Polydictya kasturakoae
n. sp.
,
Paratype
♀
, Nagai et Porion 1994] (
MHNL
).
Coordinates of
type
locality
Palolo:
1°39’S
119°54’E
.
Notes
The
holotype
and
paratype
were erroneously stated to be males in the original description (
Nagai & Porion 1996
).
Nagai & Porion (1996)
stated that the
paratype
was deposited in MNHN but it is currently in MHNL as most specimens of Thierry Porion’s collection.
Measurements and ratios
LT (extrapolated):
♀
(n = 2):
31.2–31.6 mm
; LTg/BTg = 2.86; BV/LV = 7.56; LF/BF = 0.72.
Distribution
Known from
Central Sulawesi
(
Fig. 7
).