Dictyomeira simulata

Song, Zhi-Shun, Webb, Michael D. & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2016, Phylogenetic analysis of the Oriental genera of Orthopagini Emeljanov, 1983 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae: Dictyopharinae), with a systematic revision of the genus Centromeria Stål, 1870, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (1), pp. 33-87 : 75-76

DICTYOMEIRA SIMULATA ( DISTANT, 1906) COMB. NOV.

FIGS 3A , 27A – D

Centromeira simulata Distant, 1906: 252 ; Melichar, 1912: 43; Metcalf, 1946: 37. Holotype ♀, India (Assam) (BMNH) (examined).

Redescription. Body length (from apex of cephalic process to tip of abdomen), ♀ 10.8 mm; length of head, ♀ 1.7 mm; width of head (including eyes), ♀ 1.5 mm; length of forewings, ♀ 13.2 mm.

For general colour, see the description by Distant (1906: 252). Cephalic process in lateral view strongly upturned and ascending at about 60°, a little longer than length from anterior margins of eyes to posterior margin of vertex ( Fig. 27B ). Vertex relatively narrow, posterior margin as broad as transverse diameter of eyes; in dorsal view ratio of length to width between eyes about 3.4: 1 ( Fig. 27A ).

Male unknown.

Type material examined. Holotype ♀ of Centromeira simulata Distant, 1906 . [ India], Margh, Assam, Atkinson, 92 – 6, type, Centromeria simulata Distant (BMNH) .

Distribution. North-eastern India (Assam).

Figures

Figure 3. Type species of Oriental genera of Orthopagini included in the phylogenetic analysis: A, Dictyomeria simulata; B, Dictyopharina viridissima; C, Dictyotenguna choui; D, Indomiasa distanti; E, Leprota melichari; F, Medeusa speicarina; G, Metaurus reticulatus; H, Miasa smaragdilinea; I, Orthopagus lunulifer; J, Protolepta turbata; K, Saigona ussuriensis; L, Tenguna watanabei; M, Truncatomeria viridistigma.

Figure 27. Dictyomeira simulata: A, head, pronotum, and mesonotum, dorsal view; B, head and pronotum, lateral view; C, head, ventral view; D, tegmen.