Paurocephala hollisi, 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 : 1956

Paurocephala hollisi sp. n.

(gures 6A, F, 7A, D, G, J, 8J)

Description. Species of the gossypii type.

Adult: head brown, yellow towards lateral ocelli; vertex covered by short setae. Clypeus brown. Antenna yellow, segments 4, 6 and 8–10 brown; segment 9 without a long basal seta. Thorax entirely brown and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally. Metascutellar horn small, hump-shaped. Forewing including pterostigma brown; veins dark brown. Forewing with short setae on veins (vein Rs with 27–30 setae); Rs vein strongly curved at distal third. Surface spinules present in all cells of forewing; radular spinules lacking. Legs yellow to brown, tarsal segments darker. Meracanthus short, laterally straight, rounded apically. Abdomen, including genitalia, brown. Male paramere widest in basal third, tapering apically and directed posteriorly, few short setae posteriorly visible from lateral view; inner surface with a row of six or seven peg-like setae situated between basal fth and apical third. Measurements and ratios as in table 2A–C.

Fifth instar larva: unknown.

Host plants. Adults were collected on Agelaea heterophylla Gilg. (Connaraceae) which seems an unlikely host.

Distribution. Tanzania.

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, Tanzania: E Usambara Mountains , Amani (research station), ca 3000 ft, 19–27 June 1974, Agelaea heterophylla (D. Hollis) (BMNH) . Dry mounted.

PARATYPES. Tanzania: 17, 14, same data as holotype ( BMNH, NHMB). Dry and slide mounted .

Comments. Distinct from the other species of the gossypii type by the dark body coloration. It is most similar to P. sinuata sp. n. from which it is distinguished by the smaller body dimensions.