Paraphenice Muir, 1924

Löcker, Holger, Löcker, Birgit & Holzinger, Werner E., 2009, Revision of the Derbidae of Seychelles Islands (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha), Zootaxa 2221, pp. 1-26 : 11-12

Genus Paraphenice Muir, 1924

Paraphenice Muir, 1924: 18 .

Type species: Phenice neavei Muir, 1924: 18 , by original designation. Imbalara Hesse, 1925: 155 , synonymised by Muir, 1928: 502. Type species: Imbalara squanifer Hesse, 1925: 155 .

Afrotropical genus, containing 24 species (Bourgoin 2008).

Diagnosis. Combination of the following characters: Vertex not or very little broader than long. Frons without median carina; lateral carinae not contiguous. Head with large, foliate, crest-like subantennal process. Lateral pronotal carinae and ventral lateral margins of pronotum not subfoliately raised to form a cup-like antennal fovea. Forewing with Sc+R fork almost level with union of claval veins; long subcostal cell.

Morphology. Head: Vertex not or very little broader than long; with u-shaped basal emargination. Lateral carinae of vertex with sensory pits. Vertex and frons lacking median carina. Frons very narrow, with strongly elevated and more or less distinctly granulated lateral carinae; lateral carinae subparallel, not contiguous, slightly diverging towards frontoclypeal suture. Frons without median carina. Frontoclypeal suture straight. Postclypeus with moderately developed median and lateral carinae. Anteclypeus with weakly developed median carina, without lateral carinae. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae. Head with large, foliate, crest-like subantennal processes as in Figs 6 D, 7B–E. Second antennal segment small, ovate, less than 2 times longer than wide.

Thorax: Hind margin of pronotum obtusely angled. Width of pronotum less than 1.5 times width of head. Lateral pronotal carinae and ventral lateral margins of pronotum not subfoliately raised to form a cup-like antennal fovea. Mesonotum slightly to moderately convex, in lateral view not raised above the vertex.

Mesonotum with three, weakly to moderately developed longitudinal carinae. Forewing with closed clavus. Claval veins without a ridge of setiferous tubercles. Forewing with Sc+R fork almost level with union of claval veins; long subcostal cell. Hindwing more than half as long as forewing. Resting position with wings folded above abdomen. Hind leg: tibia without lateral spines; tibia with 5 apical teeth with the outermost spine separated from the other 4 spines by a large diastema; 1st tarsomere with 6–7 apical teeth and no platellae; 2nd tarsomere with 6 apical teeth and no platellae.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Paraphenice aurea: A habitus lateral; B habitus dorsal; C, D head; E forewing. Scalebar 1 mm applies to figures A – C, E.