Destinoides latifrons Walker, n. comb.
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Description
Destinoides latifrons (Walker) n. comb.
Figs 1–9
Ledra latifrons Walker, 1851: 824
Petalocephala latifrons, Stål, 1862: 494; Distant, 1908: 166, fig. 110. Destinoides fasciata Cai & He, 2000: 57 –58, fig. 13–1. syn. nov.
Redescription. Male. Body length (incl. forewing) 13–14 mm, head width (incl. eyes) 4.1 mm, pronotum width 4.2 mm. Body yellowish-brown; ocelli pale red margined with brown (Fig. 1); pronotum with lateral margin brown; forewing with inner area of clavus brown.
Crown with fore margin angled distad of eyes.
Male 8th sternite with posterior margin concave (Fig. 4). Inner pygofer process triangular ventrally (Fig. 7). Aedeagal shaft with pair of subapical forklike processes and a very small dorsoapical process near gonopore (Figs 8, 9).
Material examined. 1 male (Holotype), no data. INDIA: 1 male, Assam, W. F. Badgley (BMNH); 1 (abdomen missing), Sikkim ‘Mungphu’ (probably the Atkinson specimen noted by Distant, 1908) (BMNH); 1 male, Bengal ‘Sylhet’ ‘68.4’ [= 1868.4: W. Saunders, part of 5000 ‘Homoptera’ donation], also noted by Distant (1908) (BMNH).
CHINA: 1 male, Xizang, Motuo, 2 June 1980, Gentao Jin, Jianyi Wu (SHEM).
Distribution. China (Xizang), Bengal, India (Assam), Sikkim.
Remarks. This species was described from a single specimen (holotype) denoted by the letter “a” by Walker, without data. The holotype (BMNH) bears the following labels: “367, 31. LEDRA LATIFRONS ” together with a museum green “ Type ” label (by Walker). Distant (1908) listed the species from various localities in India, including the three Indian specimens listed above in the BMNH.
This species is easily distinguished from D. conspicuus (Distant) by the presence of three rather than one processes on the aedeagal shaft. Cai & He (2000) reported D. latifrons (Walker) as a new combination and a new record to China but based on their description of the aedeagus (in key) with a single apical process, their material might be D. conspicuus.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cicadellidae
- Genus
- Destinoides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker
- Species
- latifrons
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Walker, F. (1851) List of the specimens of Homopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 3. Printed by Order of the Trustees, London, pp. 637 - 907.
- Stal, C. (1862) Synonymiska och systematiska anteckningar ofver Hemiptera. Ofversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akadmiens forhandlingar, 19, 479 - 504.
- Distant, W. L. (1908) Rhynchota, Homoptera and Appendix (Pt.). In: Bingham, C. T. (Ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma. Volume IV, xv + 501 pp. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 158 - 182.
- Cai, P. & He, J. H. (2000) A new record and a new allied genera of Ledrinae (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) from China. In: Zhang, Y. L. (Ed.), Systematic and faunistic research on Chinese insects. Proceedings of the 5 th National Congress of Insect Taxonomy. China Agriculture Press, Beijing, China, pp. 56 - 60.