Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species
Author
Peng, Ling-Fei
Author
Fletcher, Murray J.
Author
Zhang, Ya-Lin
text
Zootaxa
2012
3399
1
22
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281824
19d4224a-8697-45ea-b361-6c396a43eb69
1175-5326
281824
6.
Flata punctipennis
(
Distant, 1910
)
(
Figs. 7
,
8
)
Cryptoflata guttularis punctipennis
Distant, 1910
: 302
Flata punctipennis
(Distant)
,
Medler, 1990
: 177
, new combination
Type
.
Lectotype
3, (not examined), designated by
Medler, 1990
: 177, (
BMNH
);
paralectotype
, 1Ƥ, (not examined),
China
(
BMNH
); 23, 1Ƥ, (not examined), N.
China
(
BMNH
).
Color.
Body and tegmina green with yellow; vertex and frons faded testaceous; margins and carinae of head brown; eyes dark brown; pronotum green with white waxy powder; mesonotum faded green; tegmina marked with many small round black spots (
Fig. 7
).
Morphology.
Body length:
18 mm
.
Head: Vertex 4.7 times wider than long; frons almost as long as wide; frontoclypeal suture shallowly convex; rostrum extending to meso-trochanter (
Figs. 7
,
8
).
Thorax: Pronotum anterior margin convex; lateral margin extending lateroventrally, almost articulated with postocular eminence. Mesonotum posterior angle about 80°. Metatibia with six spines apically; basal segment of metatarsi with nine spines. Tegmina with costal margin slightly convex at base; apical margin elongate convex; sutural margin truncate; apical and sutural angles rounded; vein Cu once forked, the branches joining postclaval margin (
Fig.7
D).
Male genitalia: Pygofer quadrangular; anterior margin truncate (
Fig. 8
D). Genital style triangular with a short process at dorsal apex (
Fig. 8
D). Anal tube in lateral view large and long, widest subapically, bent down at midlength (
Fig. 8
D). Phallobase tubular at base; dorsolateral lobe slender (
Fig. 8
E); apex each side with two processes, inner one small and zigzag, outer one long and directed cephalad (
Fig. 8
F); lateral emargination slightly concave (
Fig. 8
E); ventral lobe short, with three spine-like short processes (
Figs. 8
E, G). Theca with one small paw-like process at base third on each lateral side (
Figs. 8
E, H); apex bipartite, each side with two processes, anterior one as long as phallus, and heavily branched, posterior one simple and circled in dorsal view (
Figs. 8
E, H).
Material examined.
CHINA
, Sichuan Province: 1Ƥ, Mt. Emei,
11.ix.1988
, Shu Ling (
NWAFU
); 13, 1Ƥ, Mt. Emei,
21.vii.1991
(
NWAFU
); 1Ƥ, Mt. Emei,
24.vii.1991
(
NWAFU
).
Distribution.
China
(Sichuan);
India
.
No Remarks.