Goniopsara mystica ( Melichar, 1899 )

Meng, Rui, Wang, Menglin & Wang, Yinglun, 2014, On the taxonomy of the tribe Pisachini (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Nogodinidae) with the description of new taxa from China and Vietnam, Zootaxa 3866 (1), pp. 79-104 : 87

Goniopsara mystica ( Melichar, 1899)

( Figs 28–30 )

Goniopsis mystica Melichar, 1899: 292 .

Goniopsara mystica: Metcalf (1952) : 226.

Diagnostic characters modificated by Melichar’s original description and photos of Holotype:

Body fusco-testaceous. Vertex about 3.7 times wider at base than median length ( Fig. 30 ), with tricarinae robust and flavius; moderately depressed on disc and near inner side of lateral margins; lateral margins laminately ridged. Frons fusco-testaceous ( Fig. 29 ), darkly with transverse straminoeous fascia at apex, widest just below level of antennae; lateral margin distinctly elevate with sienna color at inner margins ( Fig. 29 ). Clypeus broadly triangular, with robust median carina, median portion particularly convex with parallel dark brown oblique sculptures ( Fig. 29 ). Antennae development, second segment subglobse ( Figs 28, 29 ). Pronotum relatively short ( Fig. 30 ), disc deeply concave on sides of the median carina, with two ablique dark brown speckles. Mesonotum large, rhombus, about 2.7 times longer than the length of vertex and pronotum together; disc slightly depressed, three longitudinal carinae elevated, median carina straight, submedian carinae curved inwards near anterior margin and joined with median carina at middle of anterior margin ( Fig. 30 ). Tegmina subtranslucent ( Figs 28, 30 ), more than twice as long as breadth, apical margin rounded, costal membrane narrow with seven or eight bombycinous transverse veins from base to middle, with a large irregular, dark brown bloch from costal margin to about middle of tegmen, apical area generally pale infumatus; transverse veins on apical part forming a subapical line, before which irregularly scattered reticulated transverse veins, but behind which terminated at a comparatively broad apical margin; longitudinal veins forked marginally; all longitudinal veins reddish-brown at basal two-thirds ( Figs 28, 30 ). Wings hyaline, veins and apical margin (not reaching anal area) pale infuscate ( Fig. 30 ). Veinations of both tegmina and wing as in Fig. 28 and Fig. 30 . Thorax and abdomen flavotestsceous, legs flavotestsceous ( Fig. 29 ). Fore and mid femora of leg with two brown rings ( Figs 28, 29 ). Hind tibia slightly enlarged at apex; lateral margins black, with three lateral spines; tarsi brown.

Body length: male(including tegmen): 14.0 mm (by Melichar’s original description).

Type material examined. Holotype: male, Singapore, 1898 (examined from images only) Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest.

Figures

FIGURES 28 – 33. Goniopsara mystica (Melichar, 1899) 28. adult, lateral view; 29. frons and clypeus, ventral view; 30. adult, dorsal view. Pisacha naga Distant, 1906 31. frons and clypeus, ventral view; 32. female genitalia, left view; 33. female genitalia, ventral view.