Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret 1860
Creators: name: Lv, Sha-Sha
name: Li, Hong-Xing
name: Zhang, Yu-Bo
name: Yang, Lin
name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Delphacidae
Tropidocephala
Tropidocephala brunnipennis

description: Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret, 1860
Figs 1–2, Table 1
Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret, 1860: 185, pl. 5 figs 2, 2a–c.
Conicoda graminea Matsumura, 1900: 259.
Ectopiopterygodelphax eximius Kirkaldy, 1906: 412.
Tropidocephala philippina Melichar, 1914: 273.
Tropidocephala brunnipennis – Matsumura 1907: 59, pl. 1 figs 3, 9. — Muir 1929: 190. — Matsumura & Ishihara 1945: 60, fig. 25. — Ishihara 1949: 12, figs 22–25. — Kuoh et al. 1983: 32, fig. 13. — Yang & Yang 1986: 18, fig. 7. — Ding & Wang 1996: 18, fig. 11. — Ding 2006: 161, fig. 74.
Tropidocephala graminea – Oshanin 1907: 300.
Tropidocephala eximius – Kirkaldy 1907: 142, pl. 12 figs 5–7, pl. 17 figs 15–16.
Material examined
CHINA • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Hainan Province, Bawangling National Forest Park; 19°04′ N, 109°07′ E; 16 Apr. 2013; Jian-Kun Long and Yu-Bo Zhang leg.; IEGU • 1 ♂; Hainan Province, Yinggeling National Natural Reserve; 19°02′ N, 109°34′ E; 10 Aug. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou leg.; IEGU • 5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Hainan Province, Diaoluoshan National Forest Park; 18°44′ N, 109°50′ E; 13 Aug. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou, Qiang Luo and Ya-Lin Yao leg.; IEGU • 1 ♂; Hainan Province, Yinggeling National Natural Reserve; 19°02′ N, 109°34′ E; 7 Apr. 2017; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Hainan Province, Bawangling National Forest Park; 19°04′ N, 109°07′ E; 29 Apr. 2017; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences; 21°54′ N, 101°17′ E; 27 Sep. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou leg.; IEGU • 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Menglun Town; 21°55′ N, 101°15′ E; 1 Dec. 2016; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU.
Redescription
MEASUREMENTS. Body length including forewing: male 3.2–3.4 mm (N = 14), female 3.5–3.7 mm (N = 7).
COLORATION. General color yellowish brown with green (Fig. 1A–B). Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum (Fig. 1A–D) pale yellowish brown with verdant green.Apical part of frons (Fig. 1E) dark brown. Clypeus (Fig. 1E) dark brown. Genae (Fig. 1B, D) black. First segment of antennae (Fig. 1A–E) with black brown stripe at apical part, second segment with a black brown stripe oblique from base to center, apical part with dark brown ring-like marking. Forewings (Fig. 1F) light yellowish brown, 2 large transparent spots near basal and middle parts, apex of each apical cells with transparent spot, inner side of crossveins with 3 dark brown burl spots, burl spot with lateral sides small, middle part big, Sc 2, R 1, Rs of apical part with small dark brown spots.
HEAD AND THORAX. Vertex (Figs 1C, 2A) triangular, longer in midline than wide at base (1.4:1). Frons (Figs 1E, 2B) fusiform, base obviously narrower than end, widest at middle level of eyes, longer in middle line than wide at widest part (1.8:1), with obvious median carinae, slightly concave near base. Antennae (Figs 1E, 2B) with first segment shorter than second segment about 1:2.0. Pronotum (Figs 1C, 2A) shorter than vertex about 0.9: 1 in midline. Mesonotum (Figs 1C, 2A) longer than 0.9× pronotum and vertex combined, median carinae extend to terminal part of scutellum. Forewings (Fig. 1F) slightly broadened apically, longer than maximal width (2.5:1).
MALE GENITALIA. Pygofer (Fig. 2C–D) ventral margin slightly longer than dorsal margin in lateral view, in posterior view with opening longer than wide, with rod-like medioventral process, lateroventral processes lamellar. Anal segment (Fig. 2C–E) short, without anal process, wider than long in lateral view, anal style long. Genital styles (Fig. 2F–G) lamellar, broad, basal and near middle parts each with long spiny process, basal one with several small dentate processes; apical part of inner side with short thick process; outer margin broadened abruptly at apex, outer apical angle arc-shaped, with several small toothlike processes. Aedeagus (Fig. 2E, H–I) with phallobase, phallus slender, tubular, curved ventrally medially, apical part cuspidal; phallobase wide and long, bend accordingly to phallus, apical part cuspidal.
Host plant
Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv. (Poales, Poaceae), Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. (Poales, Poaceae), Oryza sativa L. (Poales, Poaceae), Saccharum officinarum L. (Poales, Poaceae).
Distribution
China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang provinces), Australia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, North America, Philippines, South Africa, southern Europe, Sri Lanka.
description: Published as part of Lv, Sha-Sha, Li, Hong-Xing, Zhang, Yu-Bo, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2025, Review of the Chinese species of the genus Tropidocephala Stål, 1853 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae), with descriptions of two new species, pp. 114-154 in European Journal of Taxonomy 981 on pages 119-122, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2815, http://zenodo.org/record/15132598