Destinoides latifrons (Walker) Walker, 2014

Sun, Jing, Webb, Michael D. & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, Revision of the Oriental leafhopper genus Destinoides Cai & He (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Ledrinae), with a new synonym and two new combinations, Zootaxa 3786 (1), pp. 79-84 : 80-82

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 .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 9. Destinoides latifrons (Walker) (holotype). 1, habitus, dorsal view; 2, habitus, lateral view; 3, face; 4, male 8 th sternite, ventral view; 5, subgenital plate, ventral view; 6, pygofer, lateral view; 7, magnified process of pygofer, ventral view; 8, aedeagus, style and connective, ventral view; 9, aedeagus, style and connective, lateral view.