Scaphoideus albosignatus (Distant) Webb & Viraktamath, 2007

Webb, M. D. & Viraktamath, C. A., 2007, Three new Old World species of the leafhopper genus Scaphoideus Uhler (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae), Zootaxa 1457 (1), pp. 49-55 : 55

Scaphoideus albosignatus (Distant) comb. nov.

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Platyretus albosignatus Distant, 1918: 38 .

Material examined. INDIA: Syntype ♀ ( Platyretus albosignatus Distant ), Darjeeling ( BMNH) .

Remarks. This species looks similar externally to the figures of Scaphoideus varius Vilbaste (1968) from Russia, given by Lee (1979), of which the line drawing habitus figure was originally produced in the description of S. hongdoensis Kwon & Lee from Korea. Presumably therefore, the un-stated synonymy of S. varius and S. hongdoensis in Lee (1979) dates from that publication. Both sets of male genitalia figures are the same. Strangely, none of the references in Kwon & Lee’s 1978 paper (including Vilbaste’s) appear in the text of their paper, suggesting perhaps that the paper was extracted from a larger work.

Figures

FIGURES 17–22. Scaphoideus species (habitus). 17, S. unimaculatus (holotype); 18, S. quangtriensis (holotype); 19, S. rubroguttatus; 20, S. dellagiustinai (paratype, France); 21, S. baeiticus (holotype); 22, S. albosignatus (syntype).