<p class = " HeadingRunIn "> <strong> The Oriental lanternfly genus <em> Scamandra </ em>: new species and taxonomical notes (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) </ strong> </ p>
Author
Constant, Jerome
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-09-04
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2
134
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2
1175-5326
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Scamandra hermione
Stål, 1864
Figs 4A–C
,
11A–E
,
14
,
16
.
Scamandra hermione
Stål, 1864: 62
[
Type
locality:
Manilla
,
Philippines
].
Type material
.
Holotype
,
♂
(dissected, genitalia in glycerine): [
Manilla
] [
Thorey
] [
Scamandra Hermione Stål
] [372, 61] [
Allotypus
] [NHRS-HEMI 000000214] (
NHRS
).
Additional material examined:
2 ♂
,
2 ♀
:
Philippines
,
Luzon
,
Laguna prov.
,
Barangay Prinza
,
Summit Hill
,
12°12’43.5”N
121°32’19.1”E
,
15.iv.2011
, leg.
J. Bresseel
(
RBINS
)
;
1 ♀
:
Philippines
,
Luzon
,
Quezon
N.P.,
Pinagbanderahan
trail,
Atimonan
,
12.iv.2011
, leg.
J. Bresseel
&
N. Bellemans
(
RBINS
)
;
1 ♂
:
Philippines
,
Luzon
,
Mt Makiling
,
Baker
(
FSAG
)
;
1 ♂
:
Philippines
,
Manilla
(
FSAG
)
;
1 ♂
: idem (
OUMNH
)
.
Note
. In the NHRS collections, another specimen erroneously bears a label [
Typus
]. That specimen is not a
type
because
Stål (1864)
based his description on a single male from
Manilla
, and this specimen is a female from “Ins. Philipp.” collected by Semper.
Diagnostic characters.
(1) Tegmina red-brown with nodal line straight at 2/3 of length (
Fig. 11 A
); (2) hind wings with square-shaped bright orange marking on disc and narrow white lines along claval fold, anal and sutural margins broadly bordered with white and apical 1/3 brown (
Fig. 11 A
); (3) all legs orange (
Fig. 11 B
).
Distribution
.
Known from the
Philippines
(Luzon).
Description
.
Measurements: LT:
♂
(n = 3): 27.0 mm (26.0–28.0);
♀
(n = 3):
31.6 mm
(30.9–32.1); ratio BV/ LV: 2.29; BF/LF: 0.86; LTg/BTg: 2.38.
MALE GENITALIA. Pygofer 2.15 times higher than long in lateral view, with posterior margin obliquely emarginate on dorsal ¼ and rounded in middle (
Fig. 4 A
); anal tube elongate, about 1.4 times longer than broad in dorsal view; sides rounded and slightly sinuate basally, apical margin roundly emarginate dorsally and ventrally, more strongly so dorsally (
Fig. 4 C
); gonostyli longer than high in lateral view, with dorsal margin strongly produced dorsad near apex; process pointed (
Fig. 4 A
); latero-dorsal tooth of gonostyli projecting laterally (
Figs. 4 A, B
).