Pseudophacopteron hankae, Malenovský & Burckhardt, 2009

Malenovský, Igor & Burckhardt, Daniel, 2009, A review of the Afrotropical jumping plant-lice of the Phacopteronidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea), Zootaxa 2086 (1), pp. 1-74 : 37

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2086.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5317012
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/EC223817-FFAA-FFD6-FF22-FF17FB4CF840
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Pseudophacopteron hankae
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Pseudophacopteron hankae View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 54, 56 View FIGURES 49–58 , 78 View FIGURES 77–82 , 215, 246)

Description. Adult (known only from females; Fig. 56 View FIGURES 49–58 ). Colour. Vertex broadly pale yellow medially, orange brown laterally; genae, frons and clypeus ochreous to orange brown. Pronotum orange brown, midline and lateral tubercles yellow. Mesopraescutum orange brown with a pale yellow triangular patch basally and medially. Mesoscutum orange brown, midline and lateral corners yellow. Mesoscutellum, metascutum, metascutellum and metapseudonotum yellow. Lateral sclerites of thorax dark brown to black. Antenna yellow, segment 2 basally and segment 4 apically brown, segments 5–7 apically narrowly black, segments 9–10 entirely black. Legs yellow; metacoxa with dark markings posteriorly; fore and mid femora with two dark brown streaks near apex and base; metafemur with an oblique dark brown streak on outer side in apical third; metatibia infuscated brown basally. Fore wing membrane clear, transparent, with a small narrow dark brown patch along apical tenth of vein Rs, light brown oval patches along apical halves of veins M 1+2, M 3+4 and Cu 1a, and indistinct infuscation along Cu 1b ( Fig. 54 View FIGURES 49–58 ). Veins off-white to ochreous except for brown C+Sc, dark brown apical portion of Rs and dark brown spots in middle of R+M+Cu 1, at base of R, on forks of M and Cu 1, touching point of Rs and M 1+2, in middle of Cu 1a, on apices of M 1+2, M 3+4, Cu 1a, Cu 1b, and two spots on anal vein. Hind wing clear, transparent; C+Sc brown. Abdominal tergites orange brown, narrowly dark brown posteriorly. Sternites yellow, sides of first visible sternite with a large dark brown patch. Female terminalia yellow, subgenital plate dark brown basally.

Morphology. Head similar to P. zimmermanni . Antenna relatively slender, segments 4–7 slightly widening to apex; terminal setae subequal, about same length as segments 9 and 10 together ( Fig. 246 View FIGURES 230–246 ). Fore wing relatively narrow, pyriform, apex broadly rounded; surface spinulation present in cells cu 1, cu 2, m 1, m 2, r 1 and apical portion of r 2 ( Fig. 78 View FIGURES 77–82 ). Mesotibia with subapical comb on outer margin consisting of seven densely arranged stout setae. Hind legs long and slender; metatibia with seven relatively sparsely arranged apical spurs and seven similar spurs laterally; metabasitarsus distinctly longer than broad. Female proctiger and subgenital plate with moderately long apical extensions; dorsal margin of proctiger concave; circumanal pore ring with two rows of pores, pores of outer row spaced; subgenital plate, in lateral view, blunt apically (Fig. 215); in ventral view, narrowly triangular with a narrowly truncate apex, similar to P. nothospondiadis as in Fig. 212. Ventral valvula with usually 3–4 fine lateral teeth subapically (Fig. 215). Measurements and ratios in Tabs. 2–4.

Male and larva unknown.

Host plant. Two paratypes were collected on Vepris (= Teclea ) simplicifolia (Rutaceae) , a possible host plant.

Biology. Unknown.

Distribution. Kenya.

Material examined. Holotype, ♀, KENYA: Nairobi , junction of the Magadi–Langata road, ca. 5400 ft, 26 July 1974 (D. Hollis). Dry-mounted [ BMNH] . Paratypes: KENYA: 2 ♀, Nairobi , Langata, ICIPE-Property Forest, 1°20’S, 36°46’E, 1650 m, 12–14 January 1999, dry forest, Teclea simplicifolia , canopy fogging (T. Wagner) GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, Masai Mara Game Reserve , Serena Lodge, 8 March 1979 (C. Burckhardt). Dry- and slidemounted [ MMBC, NHMB] .

Etymology. Named in honour of Hanka Malenovská for her patient support throughout the study.

Comments. P. hankae shares a similar fore wing pattern and the structure of hind legs (long and slender form, a similar number and arrangement of apical and lateral spurs) with P. geminum , P. kala and P. nothospondiadis . The shape of the female terminalia is similar to the latter two species. P. hankae is differentiated from P. kala and P. nothospondiadis by the distribution and size of brown patches on the fore wings (cf. Figs. 51–52 View FIGURES 49–58 ), the relatively shorter and more robust antenna, and the slightly broader apex of the female subgenital plate in lateral view (cf. Figs. 209, 211). See comments under P. geminum .