Paurocephala lucida, Mifsud & Burckhardt, 2002

Mifsud, D. & Burckhardt, D., 2002, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea), Journal of Natural History 36 (16), pp. 1887-1986 : 1960-1961

Paurocephala lucida sp. n.

(gures 5D, H, I)

Description. Species of the gossypii type.

Adult: head yellow; vertex covered by inconspicuous setae. Clypeus brown. Antenna yellow, apical half of segment 8 and entire segments 9 and 10 brown; segment 9 without a long basal seta. Thorax yellow and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally, brown laterally and ventrally. Metascutellar horn small, blunt apically. Forewing transparent; veins yellow, apically light brown to forewing margin, central part of vein A brown; pterostigma yellow. Forewing with inconspicuous setae on veins (vein Rs with 23–25 setae); Rs vein strongly curved at apical third. Surface spinules sparse, present in distal parts of cells m1, m2 and cu1 and throughout cu2; radular spinules lacking. Legs including tarsal segments, yellow to brown. Meracanthus short, laterally curved, rounded apically. Abdomen, including genitalia, brown. Male unknown. Measurements and ratios as in table 2A–C.

Fifth instar larva: unknown.

Host plants. The material was collected on owers of Discopodium penninervium (Solanaceae) , an unlikely host.

Distribution. Ethiopia.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE and PARATYPE, Ethiopia: Simien Mountains (W Mai Shaha valley), ca 9000 ft, 14 December 1952, owers of Discopodium penninverium (Hugh Scott) (BMNH) . Dry and slide mounted .

Comments. P. lucida sp. n. is distinguished from the other species of the gossypii type by stout setae present on the rst three visible abdominal tergites laterally.