Scolopsomorpha debakkeri, Constant, Jerome, 2009

Constant, Jerome, 2009, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Scolopsomorpha Melichar (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae), Zootaxa 2219, pp. 38-48 : 45-47

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.190028
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6212916
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C6F818-D450-CD7B-E5F2-FA44FDA0AFCA
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Scolopsomorpha debakkeri
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Scolopsomorpha debakkeri View in CoL n. sp.

Figs. 1 F View FIGURE 1 A – F. A , 4 A–G View FIGURE 4 A – G , 5 View FIGURE 5 , 6 I –L View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D .

Etymology. Dedicated to its collector, Mr. Domir DeBakker (MRAC).

Material examined. Holotype 3: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere Reserve, 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 260m, 19.ix.2007, canopy fogging (6), leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( RBINS); 13, 1 Ƥ paratypes: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere Reserve, 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 260m, 25.ix.2007, canopy fogging (12), leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( MNHN); 1 Ƥ paratype: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere Reserve, 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 260m, 19.ix.2007, canopy fogging (6), leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( RBINS); 1 Ƥ paratype: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere Reserve, 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 260m, 26.ix.2007, canopy fogging (13), leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( RBINS); 1 3 paratype: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere res., 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 260m, 4.x.2007, canopy fogging, leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( MRAC); 2 3 paratypes: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Congo ( RDC), Mayombe, Bas-Congo, Luki Biosphere Reserve, 5°37’16.7”S 13°05’54.6”E, 266m, 18.ix.2007, canopy fogging (5), leg. D. De Bakker, J.P. Michiels] ( RBINS).

Other material examined: 1 Ƥ: [ Congo belge, Bambesa, 26-I-1939, J. Vrydagh] [R. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belg. I. G. 12.291] ( RBINS) coordinates of Bambesa: 3°28'N 25°43'E.

Note: this female is not included in the paratype series because no male has been collected together which would confirm the identity of the species.

Diagnosis. The species can be recognized by the clypeus yellow-white and the disc of frons entirely black ( Fig. 6 K View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ), the cephalic process strongly curved dorsad ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ), the black markings on the sides of the head ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ), the coxae dark brown ( Fig. 6 K View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ) and the shorter and more convex tegmina (LTg/BTg = [3] 3.3; [Ƥ] 2.9) ( Figs. 6 I –J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ). Males should be identified by examination of the genitalia ( Figs. 4 A–G View FIGURE 4 A – G ).

Description. LT: 3 (n = 3): 9.6 mm (9.5–9.7); Ƥ (n = 3): 10.5 mm (10.0–11.1). L [anterior margin of eye – apex of tegmina]: 3 (n = 3): 7.2 mm; Ƥ (n = 3): 8 mm (7.9–8.2).

Head: pale yellow-brown ( Fig. 6 I View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); lateral sides with one black patch before eye and another under eye, including base of antenna ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); frons shiny black, smooth ( Fig. 6 K View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); process projecting antero-dorsad, with apex and lateral line black-brown ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); median carina of vertex reaching apex of process ( Fig. 6 I View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); clypeus yellow-white with apical half black-brown ( Fig. 6 K View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); scape black, pedicel yellow-brown; ratio BV/ LV = 0.20-0.21; BF/LF = 0.26.

Thorax: pro- and mesonotum pale yellow-brown with carinae darker ( Fig. 6 I View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); sides of prothorax blackbrown anteriorly and posteriorly ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); often 4 brown spots along hind margin, between carinae ( Fig. 6 I View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); sides of meso- and metathorax black-brown ( Fig. 6 J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); tegulae yellow-brown to black-brown, darker posteriorly ( Figs. 6 I –J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); ratio LP+LM/BT = 1; LM/LP = 1.5.

Tegmina: tubercles pale yellow-brown to pale yellow-red; ground colour black brown on basal ¼, on large lateral zone at middle and on apical 1/5; rest red-brown with pale patch along lateral margin at basal 1/3; apical shiny black spot elevated; all parts more or less suffused with red, especially veins; apex of clavus black-brown ( Figs. 6 I –J View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); underside largely red; ratio LTg/BTg = [3] 3.33; [Ƥ] = 2.94.

Hind wings: black-brown with veins slightly suffused with red ( Fig. 6 L View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ).

Legs: femora I and II pale yellow-brown with basal and preapical black-brown markings; tibiae pale yellow-brown at base and on apical 1/3, brown-black ring near base and rest red-brown; femora III yellowbrown dorsally, black-brown ventrally; tibiae III red-brown and tarsomeres yellow-brown ( Fig. 6 I View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ); all coxae brown to black-brown ( Fig. 6 K View FIGURE 6 A – L. A – D ).

Abdomen: pale yellow ventrally, dark brown dorsally.

Genitalia 3: pygofer narrow and curved in lateral view, slightly emarginate postero-dorsally ( Fig. 4 A View FIGURE 4 A – G ); gonostyli elongate, fused on basal 4/5, strongly sinuate laterally in middle and with digitate process dorsally ( Figs. 4 A, C–D View FIGURE 4 A – G ); right gonostylus with hook-shaped process dorsally near base and more strongly sinuate than left one ( Figs. 4 A, C View FIGURE 4 A – G ); anal tube dorso-ventrally compressed, suboval in dorsal view ( Fig. 4 B View FIGURE 4 A – G ); phallic complex directed ventrad and strongly curved rightwards ( Figs. 4 E–G View FIGURE 4 A – G ); basal, dorsal, pointed process, ventral pointed process at 2/3 and apex bilobous on left side ( Fig. 4 E View FIGURE 4 A – G ); apex unilobous on right side ( Fig. 4 G View FIGURE 4 A – G ).

Biology. Six specimens have been caught by canopy fogging in Bas-Congo, which may suggest that the species lives in the tree tops. Another specimen has been collected in NE Congo and this suggests that the species has a large distribution.