Review of the genus Signoretia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Signoretiinae) of the Oriental region with description of nine new species
Author
Viraktamath, C. A.
Author
Webb, M. D.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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3
486
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journal article
37806
10.5281/zenodo.167191
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1175-5326
167191
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Signoretia sumatrana
Schmidt
Figs 43–45
,
64
.
Signoretia sumatrana
Schmidt 1911
: 298
;
Li & Wang 1996
: 124
–125, figs 92: 1–4.
Remarks
. No specimens of this species was examined, only photographs of the
type
(
MIZP
,
Figs 43–45
,
64
).
Schmidt
(1911)
described the species based on an unspecified number of male specimens collected from “
Sumatra
:
Soekaranda
” during “
January 1894
” by “
Dr H.
Dohrn”.
This species has chocolate brown coloration as in
S. greeni
but lacks the pale ochraceous median fascia on head and pronotum found in
S. greeni
. It also has apical cells of forewing differently formed compared to that in
S. greeni
. The male
type
has been dissected; however, it was not possible to locate the slide containing the male genitalia (Dr A. Stroinski, personal communication).
Li & Wang (1996)
recorded the species from
Fujian
(
China
) and
Taiwan
, and also illustrated the male genitalia; the pygofer illustrated by
Li & Wang (1996)
is similar to that in the case
S. rubra
sp. nov.
in that both have the forked ventral process. This species resembles species of Phlogisiini. Not only is the color similar but the head in profile is more rounded than most other species of Signoretiini.