Pyrrhoneura bivittata, Metcalf, Z. P., 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 113-114

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5174008

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5B298959-4DF9-41E7-8490-E413E8B7B562

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5186807

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/416187ED-EB51-FFF6-FEF0-43F58B32F95B

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Carolina

scientific name

Pyrrhoneura bivittata
status

sp. nov.

2. Pyrrhoneura bivittata View in CoL , new species ( fig. 5 View FIGuru , a-f).

Vertex triangular, projecting distinctly in front of eyes, nearly as broad as long; the lateral margins strongly elevated, nearly meeting on the apex of the head, with a double row of small pustules. Frons elongate, nearly four times as long as the width between the compound eyes; lateral margins nearly parallel to clypeal border and then suddenly flaring, with a single row of small pustules; median carina indistinct. First segment of antennae short; second nearly seven times as long as first, reaching to the middle of the compound eyes; strongly pustulate. Pronotum short, deeply incised posteriorly, strongly flared; mesonotum large, ecarinate.

Geriital plates of male elongate, narrow; apex produced into a broad triangular tooth which is directed dorsad; anal segment elongate, about as long as the genital plate.

General color of the body including the legs ochraceous yellow with a lateral blackish fuscous vitta; tegmina milky subhyaline; wings milky subhyaline; veins concolorous.

Length: to apex of abdomen, 2.9 mm.; to apex of tegmina, 5 mm.

Holotype male, Yigo, Nov. 13, on Cacao, Swezey ; allotype female, Dededo, Sept. 7, on Guettarda, Swezey ; paratype, one female, Dededo, Sept. 7, on Ficus tinctoria (hodda), Swezey .

This species may be readily recognized bythe blackish fuscous fasciaacross the base of the frons which is continued across the lateral margins of the head and thorax as a blackish fuscous vitta and to the apex of the tegmina as a broad pale fuscous vitta.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

SuperFamily

Fulgoroidea

Family

Derbidae

Genus

Pyrrhoneura

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