Paurocephala kleinho

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 : 1958

Paurocephala kleinho ae Uichanco, comb. rev.

(gures 9B, C, H, I, G, 10B, D, F, H) Paurocephala kleinho ae Uichanco, 1921: 274. Syntypes, 5, 9, Philippines: Luzon , Los

Baños, 50 m, December 1918, Kleinhovia hospita (L. B. Uichanco) (UPPC) , not examined. Anomoterga kleinho ae (Uichanco); Navasero and Calilung, 1998: 14.

Description. Species of the kleinho ae type.

Adult: head yellow, sides along coronal suture white; vertex covered by inconspicuous setae. Clypeus orange. Antenna yellow, segment 9 brown; segment 8 with a long basal seta. Thorax yellow and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally, white laterally and ventrally. Metascutellar horn small, pointed apically. Forewing including pterostigma transparent; veins yellow, apically light brown to forewing margin. Forewing with inconspicuous setae on veins (vein Rs with 11–14 setae); Rs vein marginally curved throughout. Surface spinules absent or con ned to cells in apical half of forewing; radular spinules present in m2, reduced or lacking in cu1. Legs including tarsal segments, yellow to white. Meracanthus short, straight laterally, rounded apically. Abdomen, including genitalia, yellow to brown. Male paramere elongate, widest in the middle and rounded apically, few short setae posteriorly visible from lateral view. Measurements and ratios as in table 2A–C.

Fifth instar larva: described by Fang and Yang (1986).

Host plants. Kleinhovia hospita L. ( Sterculiaceae ).

Distribution. Philippines (Luzon) ( Uichanco, 1921) (Mindanao) and Taiwan ( Fang and Yang, 1986).

Material examined. Philippines: 1, Mindanao , Davao (experimental station), October 1961, (M. R. Gavarra); 1 same data but September 1962 ( BMNH) . Taiwan: 2, 2, Ping-tung, Ken-ting , 22 March 1985, Kleinhovia hospita (S. J. Fang) (BMNH, NHMB, NMNS) . Dry and slide mounted .

Comments. Syntypes of Paurocephala kleinho ae Uichanco were not available for study. Fang and Yang (1986) recorded the species from Taiwan. Two females from the Philippines (Mindanao), which diVer in certain details from the material from Taiwan, were examined. They diVer in the shape of the forewing veins (Rs vein more strongly arched) (gure 9B, C) and the setae which are associated with the antennal rhinaria. These setae are much longer (gure 9H) than in the Philippine material. The material from Mindanao ts well with the description provided by Uichanco (1921) such as forewing and shape of Rs vein.