Proteatingis burckhardti ( Péricart 1992 ) Shofner & Cassis, 2024

Shofner, Ryan & Cassis, Gerasimos, 2024, Phylogenetics and taxonomy of the Indo-Australian genus Ulonemia sensu Drake (Hemiptera: Tingidae), with the recognition of new genera and species collected from Proteaceae in Australia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200 (2), pp. 360-425 : 407-409

Proteatingis burckhardti ( Péricart 1992) comb. nov.

( Figs 13E–H , 14E–H , 16 , 17 )

Ulonemia burckhardti Péricart 1992: 83 [original description]; Cassis and Gross (1995: 437) [Australian catalogue]; Dang et al. (2014: 49).

Type material

Holotype. AUSTRALIA: New South Wales: Brindabella Mts, Mt Ginini , 21 Dec 1986, J. Péricart, ♂ ( MHNG).

Other material examined

AUSTRALIA: Australian Capital Territory: Black Mountain, 35.26387°S 149.10051°E, 26 Nov 1959, G. F. Gross, 1 unknown sex ( UNSW _ENT 00046466) ( SAMA). Black Mtn., 35.16°S 149.06°E, 1 Dec 1960, C. N. Smithers, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ ENT 00046408), 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046409) ( AM); 19 Nov 1985, G. Cassis, Acacia decurrens Willd. ( Fabaceae ), 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046411) ( AM); 3 Oct 1988, G. Cassis, parrot pea, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046410) ( AM). Namadgi National Park, Honeysuckle Creek Campground, 35.58357°S 148.97598°E, 1126 m, 11 Dec 2013, G. Cassis and J. Karras, Grevillea rosmarinifolia A. Cunn. ( Proteaceae ), det. Neville Walsh RBGV, 43 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046112- UNSW _ENT 00046131, UNSW _ENT 00046166- UNSW _ENT 00046185, UNSW _ENT 00046187, UNSW _ENT 00046186, UNSW _ ENT 00046193), 117 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046132- AMNH _ IZC 00046141, UNSW _ENT 00046133- UNSW _ENT 00046165, UNSW _ENT 00046195, UNSW _ENT 00046196), 1 unknown sex ( UNSW _ENT 00046188), 4 unknown sex ( UNSW _ENT 00046189- UNSW _ENT 00046192) Grevillea lanigera A.Cunn.ex R.Br. ( Proteaceae ), det.Neville Walsh RBGV, 4 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046197- UNSW _ENT 00046200), 1 unknown sex ( UNSW _ENT 00046201) ( UNSW). Namadgi National Park, c. 5 km W of Orroral Gate on Cotter Hut Rd, 35.61382°S 148.91842°E, 1151 m, 10 Dec 2013, G. Cassis and J. Karras, Grevillea lanigera A. Cunn. ex R.Br. ( Proteaceae ), det. Neville Walsh RBGV, 13 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046202- UNSW _ENT 00046214), 17 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046215- UNSW _ENT 00046231) ( UNSW). New South Wales: 0.7 km N of jn. Darkes Forest Rd on Old Princes Hwy, 34.23285°S 150.94483°E, 360 m, 11 Sep 2000, G. Cassis and R. Silveira, 6 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046368- UNSW _ENT 00046373), 5 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046374- UNSW _ENT 00046378), 1; ( UNSW _ENT 00046379) ( UNSW). Cheltenham, 33.7568°S 151.0846°E, 13 Nov 1960, C. E. Chadwick, Leptospermum flavescens Sm. ( Myrtaceae ), 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046426) ( ASCU). Fullers Bridge, 33.799°S 151.151°E, Unknown, 1 ♀ ( AMNH _PBI 00011743) ( AM). Fullers Bridge, Lane Cove River, 33.79269°S 151.15705°E, 6 m, Oct 1934, K. K. Spence, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046415) ( AM). Narrabeen, 33.71666°S 151.3°E, 10 Nov 1902, W. B. G., 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046425) ( ASCU). Royal National Park, 34.072°S 151.05789°E, 20 m, 2002, Schwartz and Silveira, Allocasuarina sp. ( Casuarinaceae ), det. Field ID, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046407) Angophora hispida (Sm.) Blaxell ( Myrtaceae ), det. Field ID, 2 ♀ ( UNSW _ ENT 00046396, UNSW _ENT 00046397) Grevillea buxifolia (Sm.) R. Br. ( Proteaceae ), det. Field ID, 5 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046398- UNSW _ENT 00046402), 4 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046403- UNSW _ENT 00046406) Grevillea sp. ( Proteaceae ), det. Field ID, 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046389), 6 ♀ ( UNSW _ ENT 00046390- UNSW _ENT 00046395) ( AM). Royal National Park, Audley tip, 34.04°S 151.03°E, 06 Dec 2006, Reid and Dungelhoef, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046465) ( UNSW). Royal National Park, Coast Track, Wattamolla—Curracurrang, 34.1377°S 151.11335°E, 29 m, 04 Oct 2000, R. Silveira and M. Elliott, 5 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046360- UNSW _ENT 00046364), 3 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046365- UNSW _ENT 00046367) ( UNSW). Royal National Park, The Coast Walk— Bundeena, 34.09172°S 151.15722°E, 77 m, 26 Nov 2001, Cassis, Schuh, and Schwartz, Grevillea buxifolia (Sm.) R. Br. ( Proteaceae ), det. Field ID, 3 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046381- UNSW _ENT 00046383), 5 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046384- UNSW _ENT 00046388) ( AM). Springwood [Gully], Sassafras Gully, 33.7152°S 150.5512°E, 09 Dec 1966, C. Smithers, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046418) ( AM). Sydney, 33.8652°S 151.20959°E, no date provided, Unknown, 3 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046413, UNSW _ENT 00046414, UNSW _ENT 00046416), 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046417) ( AM). Wedderburn, 34.1485°S 150.8179°E, 18 Oct 1959, C. E. Chadwick, Grevillea sp. ( Proteaceae ), 6 mixed sexes ( UNSW _ENT 00046427, UNSW _ ENT 00046428) ( ASCU). Woronora Dam district, 34.1163°S 150.94901°E, 259 m, 11 Sep 2000, G. Cassis and R. Silveira, 1 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046380) ( UNSW). Nr. McMahon’s Pt. King’s Tableland Rd. Wentworth Falls, 33.88745°S 150.38481°E, 19 Jan 1990, G. Cassis, Eucalyptus sp. ( Myrtaceae ), 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ ENT 00046419), 5 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046420- UNSW _ENT 00046424) ( AM). Victoria: Grampians nr peak Mt. William, 37.29277°S 142.60114°E, 1167 m, 05 May 1978, J. J. H. Szent- Ivany, 1 ♂ ( UNSW _ENT 00046412) ( SAMA). Lake Condah Mission, 38.07646°S 141.788°E, 25 Mar 2011, M. Cheng and A. Namyatova, Grevillea rosmarinifolia A. Cunn. ( Proteaceae ), det. V. Stajsic, 4 ♀ ( UNSW _ENT 00046356- UNSW _ENT 00046359) ( UNSW).

Diagnosis: Proteatingis burckhardti can be recognized by the following combination of characters: head black; eyes black; anterior margin of collum curved, projecting forward; collum moderately inflated, forming a hood; costal area uniseriate; metasternal carinae straight, parallel, width between metasternal carinae equal to width between mesosternal carinae.

Male: Macropterous; large morph 3.27 ± 0.1 mm (N = 10); small morph 3.02 ± 0.08 mm (N = 10) ( Table 3 ). COLORATION. Golden-brown to straw-coloured. Head: black; spines straw-coloured, unicolorous; bucculae straw-coloured, darkening to black proximally; eyes black. Antennae: AI–AIII golden-brown, AIII marginally lighter; AIV brown distally, transitioning to golden-brown proximally. Rostrum: golden-brown with dark brown to black apex. Pronotum: disc golden-brown to straw-coloured; calli dark brown to black; collum and paranota golden-brown to straw-coloured; lateral and medial carinae straw-coloured. Thoracic pleura and sterna: proepisternum golden-brown anteriorly, mostly black posteriorly, proepimeron and supracoxal lobes golden-brown to straw-coloured; mesepisternum mostly black, mesepimeron and supracoxal lobes golden-brown to straw-coloured; metepisternum black anteriorly, golden-brown posteriorly; peritreme of metathoracic gland straw-coloured; pro-, meso-, and metasternum black; sternal carinae straw-coloured. Hemelytra: discoidal area brown medially, fading to straw-coloured at edges, interrupted by white streaks or blotches; costal margin straw-coloured with brown costal veins; sutural area golden-brown to straw-coloured with brown veins distally. Legs: mostly golden-brown, coxae black; tarsi black distally. Abdominal venter: golden-brown; AII dark brown to black. VESTITURE. Head: sparse distribution of straw-coloured aciculate setae in band from base of AI to occipital spines, and from medial spine to frontal spines; occipital and medial spines with straw-coloured short aciculate to hooked setae; vertex with globules of wax; bucculae with arcuate aciculate setae and ciliate punctures, covered with globules of wax. Antennae: AI–AII with straw-coloured sparse, aciculate arcuate setae; AIII with straw-coloured aciculate decumbent setae, AIV with straw-coloured aciculate setae; distal ends of AII and AIII with dense ring of microtrichia. Pronotum: paranotal and anterior margins with arcuate aciculate setae, these continuing posteriorly on medial and lateral carinae; disc with minute scale-like setae and numerous punctures with six to eight cilia distributed evenly around internal rim of punctures; calli often with copious quantities of wax. Thoracic pleura and sterna: proepisternum with arcuate aciculate setae and ciliate punctures anteriorly as on pronotal disc, mostly glabrous posteriorly, proepimeron and supracoxal lobes with arcuate aciculate setae and ciliate punctures; mesepisternum glabrous, mesepimeron and supracoxal lobes with arcuate aciculate setae and ciliate punctures posteriorly; mesepisternum glabrous; pro-, meso-, and metapluron covered with small wax globules. Legs: trochanter to tarsus with golden-brown aciculate setae; coxae glabrous. Hemelytra: costal margins sparsely covered with arcuate aciculate setae, extending onto veins of costal area. Abdominal venter: aciculate setae and wax distributed throughout. STRUCTURE. Head: frontal spines slightly conical, convergent, approximately one-third length of AI; medial spine straight, conical apically, height approximately equal to AI, approximately 5× longer than wide; occipital spines straight, cylindrical, exceeding length of medial spine, easily exceeding anterior edge of collum. Antennae: AI and AII short, AII one-half length of AI; AIII long, length subequal to exceeding distance between humeral angles; AIV lanceolate. Labium: moderate length, extending to anterior margin of metasternum. Pronotum: strongly convex; collum apex inflated to subglobose, height subequal to disc, appearing as extension of medial carina, reaching anterior margin of collum; carinae elevated from disc uniseriate, medial and lateral carinae equal width, lateral carinae strongly divaricating anteriorly; paranota curved, following disc, upturned obliquely, uniseriate, areolae rectangular. Thoracic sterna: mesosternal and metasternal carinae elevated, uniseriate, areolae rectangular; mesosternal carinae straight, parallel, metasternal carinae straight to slightly curved. Hemelytra: areolae small and uniformly sized in discoidal and subcostal areas; sutural area areolae similar to discoidal area proximally, increasing in size to 10× distally; costal area areolae large, rectangular; costal area uniseriate, subcostal area biseriate, discoidal area increasing from one to seven areolae wide, sutural area increasing from one to nine areolae wide. Male genitalia: pygophore ( Fig. 17A, B ); parameres ( Fig. 17C–E ); dorsal plate Y-shaped ( Fig. 17F ); aedeagus with paired enlarged endosomal lobal sclerites ( Fig. 17F–H ); endosomal membrane spinulate ( Fig. 17F–H ).

Female: Macropterous; large morph 3.41 ± 0.09 mm (N = 10); small morph 3.15 ± 0.11 mm (N = 10) ( Table 3 ). COLORATION. As in male. VESTITURE. As in male. STRUCTURE. Females broader across hemelytra than males.

Plant associations: Known from six genera in four families. Casuarinaceae : Allocasuarina sp. , one specimen. Fabaceae : Acacia decurrens , one specimen. Myrtaceae : Angophora hispida , two specimens; Eucalyptus sp. , six specimens; Leptospermum flavescens , one specimen. Proteaceae : Grevillea buxifolia , 17 specimens; G. lanigera , 35 specimens; G. rosmarinifolia , 169 specimens; Grevillea sp. , 13 specimens.

Distribution: From Royal National Park in New South Wales, south through the Australian Capital Territory; also known from the Grampians in south-west Victoria ( Fig. 16 ).

Remarks: Proteatingis burckhardti is similar to Pr. astibosetes and Pr. xouthos ; it can be distinguished from the latter two species by the straight and parallel metasternal carinae. Additionally, Pr. astibosetes has an enlarged areola on each paranotum (vs. areolae of roughly equal size in Pr. burckhardti ).

Figures

Figure 13. Dorsal habitus photos of Proteatingis species:Pr. astibosetes sp. nov.male western morph (A), male eastern morph (B), female western morph (C), female eastern morph (D); Pr. burckhardti stat. nov. male large morph (E), male small morph (F), female large morph (G), female small morph (H); Pr. howardi sp. nov. male (I), female (J); Pr. minuta sp. nov.male (K), female (L); Pr. mjobergi stat. nov. male (M), female (N); Pr. xouthos sp. nov.male (O), female (P). Scale bar = 1 mm.

Figure 14. Lateral habitus photos of Proteatingis species: Pr. astibosetes sp. nov. male western morph (A), male eastern morph (B), female western morph (C), female eastern morph (D); Pr. burckhardti stat. nov. male large morph (E), male small morph (F), female large morph (G), female small morph (H); Pr. howardi sp. nov. male (I), female (J); Pr. minuta sp. nov.male (K), female (L); Pr. mjobergi stat. nov. male (M), female (N); Pr. xouthos sp. nov.male (O), female (P). Scale bar = 1 mm.

Figure 16. Distribution map for Proteatingis astibosetes sp. nov., Pr. burckhardti stat. nov., Pr. howardi sp.nov., and Pr. minuta sp. nov.Locality information taken from the PBI database.

Figure 17. Male genitalia of Proteatingis burckhardti stat.nov.: pygophore, dorsal view (A); pygophore, ventral view (B); left paramere, dorsal view (C); right paramere, lateral view (D); right paramere, dorsal view (E); aedeagus, dorsal view (F); aedeagus, ventral view (G); aedeagus, right lateral view (H). See Methods for abbreviations. Scale bars = 0.1 mm.