Makilingia intermedia Melichar, 1923

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 484

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.3

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5936418

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scientific name

Makilingia intermedia Melichar
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Makilingia intermedia Melichar View in CoL

( Figs 1 View FIGURE 1 P–Q, 5F–J, 8F, 9K–L)

Makilingia intermedia Melichar, 1923: 119 View in CoL

Makilingia variabilis Baker 1924: 63 View in CoL , Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4

Makilingia bakeri Melichar 1923: 119 View in CoL

Male genitalia (based on lectotype of M. variabilis View in CoL ). Pygofer appendage slender and elongate, slightly expanded and twisted preapically beyond pygofer lobe. Subgenital plate relatively short and broad, distal lobe robust, evenly curved dorsad; dorsal callosity large, without distinct lobes. Style with preapical lobe short and broadly angulate, preapical heel absent. Aedeagus with preatrium slightly longer than shaft, shaft in lateral view strongly tapered from base to apex, nearly straight, lateral atrial process tapered, slightly surpassing mid-width of shaft; in posterior view with preatrium constricted medially, atrium broadly triangular, shaft narrow and parallel-sided basally, expanded and bulbous in distal half, apex broadly rounded with narrow medial cleft.

Female. Sternite VII less than twice as wide as long, tapered, posterior margin with broad V-shaped emargination. Second valvulae with dorsal margin nearly straight through most of length, teeth short, bluntly conical, nearly evenly spaced.

Material examined. Lectotype male of M. variabilis Baker , here designated, labeled: "Imugin/ N. Viscaya / Baker; Cotype No./ U.S.N.M.; LECTOTYPE / Makilingia / variabilis Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019; USNMENT / 01513299". 9 male, 3 female, and 1 sex undetermined (abdomen missing) paralectotypes, first label same as lectotype, 4 of them with red Cotype labels. 21 male and 15 female paralectotype labeled "Baguio/ Benguet/ Baker”, 2 with red Cotype labels. 21 male paralectotypes labeled "Dapitan/ Mindanao/ Baker". All paralectotypes labeled “ PARALECTOTYPE / Makilingia / variabilis Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019”; each with a USNMENT barcode label numbered 0 1513310 thru 0 1513317, 0 151322 thru 0 1513383 ( USNM). Other material. 1 female, Philippines: Prov. Nueva Vizcaya, Quezon Munc. Mount Palali Basecamp, Waypoint 126, 16.45977°N, 121.22388°E, 816m, 4.vi.2017 Berlese , Siler Brachymeles Expedition 4 ( OMNH); 1 male, same data except Streamside, 16.46198°N, 121.21970°E, 696m, 3.vi.2017, Yellow+ Blue pan traps ( OMNH). GoogleMaps

Notes. Baker (1925) proposed the above synonymies and was followed by Merino (1936) but it is doubtful that either of them studied Melichar's type material. Young and Lauterer (1966) listed M. intermedia but not M. bakeri among the types present in the Moravian Museum collection although they mentioned that there were three additional specimens of M. intermedia from "Bubalan; Luzon", type locality of both M. intermedia and M. bakeri . Treatment of bakeri as a junior synonym of intermedia follows Baker (1925) although he treated the former as a variety of the latter.

Melichar's (1923) description of M. bakeri is as follows (translated from the German): Crown as long as distance between bases of eyes, apex with 4 square yellow-white spots, the front ones small, lateral ones somewhat larger. Dorsum and venter black, forewing commissure with hyaline white marking and spot at apex, inner apical cell of corium hyaline white. Antennae and legs pale yellow.

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

OMNH

Osaka Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

SubFamily

Mileewinae

Genus

Makilingia

Loc

Makilingia intermedia Melichar

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N. 2019
2019
Loc

Makilingia variabilis

Baker, C. F. 1924: 63
1924
Loc

Makilingia intermedia

Melichar, L. 1923: 119
1923
Loc

Makilingia bakeri

Melichar, L. 1923: 119
1923
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