Penthimia juno Distant

Shobharani, M., Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D., 2018, Review of the leafhopper genus Penthimia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of seven new species, Zootaxa 4369 (1), pp. 1-45 : 11-12

Penthimia juno Distant

Fig. 65 , 237–239 .

Penthimia juno Distant, 1908: 245 .

Black, faintly touched with yellowish brown on scutellum laterally and at apex, and on apical area of forewing, the latter brownish.

Female genitalia. Seventh sternite twice as wide as long medially with angular lateral angles and a median projection the latter narrowed to narrowly rounded apex.

Length. Female: 3.7mm.

Type material examined. SRI LANKA: Lectotype ♀ (here designated): ’ Type H.T’ ‘ Penthimia juno Dist. type’ ‘Kandy, Ceylon’ ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species was described from an unknown number of specimens (syntypic) with the following data: ‘ Ceylon; Kandy (Green).’

This small species, known only from the female type, resembles P. ereba externally but can be distinguished from the latter by its more uniformly dark colour, shorter vertex and more deeply concave posterior margin of the female pregenital sternite each side of the midline.

Figures

FIGURES 60–70. Leg chaetotaxy and female seventh sternites of Penthimia. 60–61. Chaedeatotaxy of forefemur: 60. P. compacta Walker; 61. P. ereba Distant. 62–63. Metabasitarsus apex: 62. P. compacta Walker; 63. P. ereba Distant. 64–70. Female seventh sternite: 64. P. funebris Distant; 65. P. juno Distant; 66. P. montana Distant; 67. P. noctua Distant; 68. P. quadrinotataDistant; 69. P. scapularis Distant; 70. P.alba Zahniser, McKamey & Dmitriev.

FIGURES 235–245. Types of species of Penthimia. 235–236. Penthimia funebris Distant, lectotype female and label data; 237–239. Penthimia juno Distant, lectotype female and label data; 240–241. Penthimia maculosa Distant, lectotype male and label data; 242–243. Penthimia maculosa Distant, paralectotype female and label data; 244–245. Penthimia montana Distant, lectotype male and label data.