Scamandra castanea, Constant & Rbins, 1758

Constant, Jérôme & Rbins, Fulgoroidea. Introduction The study of unidentified material in the accessions of, 1758, Four new species of the Oriental lanternfly genus Scamandra Stål, 1863 from Sulawesi and neighbouring islands with taxonomic notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 50, pp. 1-21 : 1-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272198
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scientific name	Scamandra castanea
status	sp. nov.

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Scamandra castanea View in CoL sp. nov.

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ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet, castaneus (adj., Latin), refers to the castaneous brown colour of the disc of the tegmina.

MATERIAL EXAMINED.

TYPE MATERIAL. INDONESIA, Sulawesi: Holotype ♀: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, Central Sulawesi, Palolo, 1°17.8’S 120°14.9’E, i.2017, 1250m, local collector, I.G.: 33.475] ( RBINS). GoogleMaps

Paratype ♀: [ INDONESIA, Central Sulawesi, Palu, Palolo, March. 1997] [ Scamandra sp. det Penny , ‘00] ( CAS) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS. INDONESIA, Sulawesi: 1 ex.: Lore lindu National Park, no date, D. & F. Knowles .

DIAGNOSIS. (1) head and thorax entirely reddish brown ( Fig. 2 B, D, F View Fig ); (2) nodal line of tegmina with black bracket-shaped marking in middle ( Fig. 2 A View Fig ); (3) tegmina with corium mostly castaneous with greenish venation and costal cell green ( Fig. 2 A View Fig ); (4) hind wings with anal and sutural zones dark brown with greenish white venation ( Fig. 2 A View Fig ); (5) legs entirely red ( Fig. 2 C View Fig ).

DESCRIPTION.

Measurements and ratios. LT: ♀: (n = 1): 33.4 mm; LTg/BTg: 2.16; BV/LV: 3.2; BF/LF: 1.0; BT/LP + LM: 1.14; LM/LP: 1.76; LMe/LCo: 0.78.

Head: ( Fig. 2 B, D, F View Fig ) entirely reddish brown, including antennae; cephalic process reaching posterior margin of vertex ( Fig. 2 B View Fig ); vertex short, with disc wrinkled, and lateral and posterior margins carinate ( Fig. 2 B View Fig ); frons coriaceous with short hairs and 2 longitudinal carinae separated by a shallow groove on ventral 2/3 ( Fig. 2 D View Fig ); labium red-brown, surpassing metatrochanters ( Fig. 2 C View Fig ); pedicel of antennae kidney-shaped with flagellum inserted dorsolaterally.

6 Thorax: ( Fig. 2 B, D, F View Fig ) prothorax reddish brown as head, wrinkled, with short hairs, 2 impressed points on disc of pronotum and numerous minute black points; median carina obsolete, barely distinct ( Fig. 2 B View Fig ). Mesonotum red-brown, slightly darker than pronotum, wrinkled; apex of scutellum slightly projecting dorsally.

Tegmina: ( Fig. 2 A, C View Fig ) costal area green with base bright red; rest of corium and clavus castaneous brown with all veins green; pale yellowish spot on clavus near base; narrow pale yellowish band sometimes reduced to transverse spots at half length of tegmen, marked with white wax on ventral side ( Fig. 2 C View Fig ); nodal line bisinuate and with narrow, bracket-shaped black marking in middle, followed by narrow pale yellowish band extending on all breadth and more visible ventrally; membrane black-brown with veins pale yellowish green. Costal margin slightly curved; posterior margin broadly rounded; sutural margin slightly sinuate after nodal line.

Hind wings: ( Fig. 2 A, C View Fig ) small bright red marking at basicostal angle; largely bright castaneous brown with pale greenish reticulum of veinlets; distal third black-brown with veins and veinlets pale yellowish green; sutural margin broadly black-brown with dense greenishwhite reticulum.

Legs: ( Fig. 2 A, C View Fig ) entirely bright reddark red-brown with femora darker, black-brown; profemora slightly inflated apically; metatibiae with 4–5 lateral spines, basal one well developed, and 7 apical spines.

Abdomen: ( Fig. 2 A, C View Fig ) bright red.

DISTRIBUTION. Southwestern portion of Central Sulawesi ( Fig. 3 View Fig ).

NOTE. Scamandra castanea sp. nov. is rather similar to S. vanvyvei Constant, 2013 but differs from the latter and its subspecies S. vanvyvei pelengana Constant, 2013 (see CONSTANT, 2013: figs 9–10 for illustrations) by (1) the bracket-shaped black marking on nodal line of tegmina (C-shaped in S. vanvyvei ); (2) the contrasting greenish venation and costal area of the castaneous corium of tegmina (veins and costal area coloured as the rest of corium in S. vanvyvei ); (3) the narrow pale band of the nodal line of the tegmina in ventral view (broad pale band extending to nearly half length of membrane in S. vanvyvei ).