Symplana viridinervis Kirby, 1891

Gnezdilov, Vladimir M., 2022, Revision Of The Genus Symplana Kirby, 1891 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Caliscelidae), With Notes On Genitalic Morphology Of Augilini And Description Of Three New Species From Vietnam And Sumatra, Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 68 (1), pp. 23-44 : 26-27

Symplana viridinervis Kirby, 1891

( Figs 1–5 , 35 )

Symplana viridinervis Kirby, 1891: 136 .

Symplana viridinervis: DISTANT 1906: 254 , Fig. 112.

Symplana viridinervis: FENNAH 1963: 726 , Fig. 1a–e .

Supplementary description ( Figs 1–5 ). Generally as mentioned for the genus. Metope with distinct median carina reaching the anteclypeus ( Fig. 3 ). Lateral margins of metope turned to lateral margins of coryphe (in lateral view) ( Fig. 1 ). Coryphe long, four times as long as wide between the eyes, slightly narrowing after bend line, with truncate apex ( Fig. 2 ). Coryphe and metope joined at a very acute angle (in lateral view) ( Fig. 1 ). Pronotum without carinae. Mesonotum twice as long as pronotum at midline, apparently with weak lateral carinae (not well visible because of pin). Forewing vein sequence: R 3; M 3; CuA 1. Arolium of pretarsus not surpassing claw apices, with straight hind margin (in dorsal view).

Coloration. Generally, light brown­yellowish (apparently light green in living specimens). Apices of leg spines and claws dark brown to black. Each pedicel with large black spot near to its apex below the eye. Coryphe, pro­ and mesonotum with wide longitudinal red stripe. Claval margins of forewings red.

Male. Unknown.

Female genitalia. Hind margin of sternite VII widely concaved, fused endogonocoxal lobes wide, concave apically ( Fig. 35 ). Anal tube short, cylindrical ( Fig. 4 ).

Total length (from head apex to the apices of forewings): 8.3 mm.

Type material examined. Lectotype, f, “ Symplana / viridinervis / Kb. type figd. [one side – hand written] / Ceylon / Green Coll. / 90–115. [other side – print]” // “9 [?] [blue, hand written]” // Pundaloya [weak print] / 5 [hand written] / Ceylon [weak print]” // “ Symplana / viridinervis Kby / Lectotype / det. / R. G. Fennah [print and hand written]” // “Type / H. T. [circle, print]” ( BMNH).

Note. CHOU et al. (1994) recorded this species from Mengyang in Yunnan Province of China, however, according to Prof. Dr. Yinglun Wang (Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China, pers. comm.) the specimen listed as S. viridinervis in this publication has no abdomen, thus species identification was made after some external characters only and accordingly I would not treat it as correct one until the males from Pundaloya and Yunnan are examined and compared. The same is apparently true for Melichar’s record of this species from the Philippines (Luzon Island) ( MELICHAR 1914).

Figures

Figs 1–5. Symplana viridinervis Kirby, 1891, female, lectotype: 1 = lateral view (scale bar: 10 mm); 2 = dorsal view (scale bar: 10 mm); 3 = frontal view (scale bar: 1 mm); 4 = abdomen,

Figs 28–35. Symplana spp., female genitalia (28–31 = S. maurici sp. n., paratype; 32, 33 = S. vieta sp. n., paratype; 34 = S. major Fennah, holotype; 35 = S. viridinervis Kirby, lectotype): 28 = ovipositor, lateral view; 29 = same, ventral view (photo); 30 = gonocoxae VIII (Gx VIII) and fused endogonocoxal lobes (GxL); 31 = hind margin of sternite VII, ventral view; 32, 34, 35 = hind margin of sternite VII and fused endogonocoxal lobes, ventral view; 33 = fused