Mastigimas peruanus Enderlein
Creators: name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Queiroz, Dalva L.
name: Drohojowska, Jowita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Calophyidae
Mastigimas
Mastigimas peruanus

description: Mastigimas peruanus Enderlein
(Figs 8, 17, 25, 33, 41)
Mastigimas peruanus Enderlein, 1921: 121.
Material examined. Peru: 22 ♂, 13 ♀, Valle del Monzón, Tingo María, 23.ix.1954 (E. I. Schlinger & E. S. Ross) (CAS, NHMB, dry and slide mounted).
Description. Adult. Colouration. Straw-coloured or ochreous. In male dark brown or black patches in the middle of vertex, on toruli, occiput, on pronotum laterally, on mesopraescutum in the middle, on mesoscutum with four longitudinal stripes, a narrow dark band stretches from the edge of pronotum to the forewing base, mesosternum and abdomen. Mesonotum sometimes greenish. Compound eyes brown, ocelli orange. Antenna brown, lighter basally, getting gradually darker towards apex. Forewing transparent with brown veins and light or dark pterostigma; hindwing transparent, costal vein light brown. Fore and mid legs light brown with darker patches on femora. Metacoxa and metafemur brown to dark brown. Female similar but with less expanded brown elements restricted to thorax laterally and ventrally, as well as longitudinal stripes on mesoscutum and tip of terminalia.
Structure. Anterior head margin, in dorsal view, forming 'U'-shaped cleft between large toruli. Antenna 4.06– 5.46 (4.74±0.46) times as long as head width, segment 3 2.2–2.3 times as long as segment 4. Forewing (Fig. 8) 4.50–5.85 (5.09±0.58) times as long as head width, 2.25–2.42 (2.35±0.05) times as long wide, pterostigma long and narrow, ratio a/b 1.1, cell cu1 moderately high. Male proctiger 0.31–0.43 (0.36±0.05) times as long as head width. Paramere (Figs 17, 25) bifid, with large, angular outer lobe and smaller, apically flattened inner tooth-like tube. Distal portion of aedeagus (Fig. 33) moderately inflated apically, lacking apical hook. Female terminalia (Fig. 41) short; proctiger 0.88–1.07 (0.99±0.08) times as long as head width, and 2.50–2.80 (2.63±0.13) times as long as subgenital plate.
Measurements (4 ♂, 4 ♀, in mm). Body length 4.87–6.33 (5.60±0.46), head width 0.87–1.07 (0.93±0.07), antenna length 3.93–4.73 (4.37±0.23), forewing length 4.20–5.27 (4.68±0.39), metatibia length 1.13–1.53 (1.28±0.15), male proctiger length 0.27–0.40 (0.33±0.05), paramere length 0.20–0.27 (0.25±0.03), female proctiger length 0.87–1.00 (0.92±0.06).
Fifth instar immature unknown.
Distribution. Peru (Enderlein 1921; Burckhardt et al. 2011).
Host plant unknown.
Comments. Klimaszewski (1962) reported two specimens from Colombia as M. peruanus which were examined later by Brown & Hodkinson (1988) who suggested that they are M. cedrelae. Brown & Hodkinson (1988) concluded that M. peruanus may be a synonym of M. cedrelae. The material from Tingo María fits Enderlein's description of M. peruanus and there is no doubt that the two are conspecific. This material significantly differs from M. cedrelae (cf. identification key). We conclude that M. peruanus is distinct from M. cedrelae, and that the specimens from Colombia identified by Klimaszewski (1962) as M. peruanus are misidentified and belong to M. cedrelae.
description: Published as part of Burckhardt, Daniel, Queiroz, Dalva L. & Drohojowska, Jowita, 2013, Revision of the neotropical jumping plant-louse genus Mastigimas (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) attacking Cedrela and Toona species (Meliaceae), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 3745 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285261