Scamandra vanvyvei subsp. pelengana Constant, 2013, ssp. n.
Creators: name: Constant, Jerome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Scamandra
Scamandra vanvyvei
Scamandra vanvyvei pelengana

description: <i>Scamandra vanvyvei pelengana</i> ssp. n. Figs 10A–E; 16. <b>Etymology.</b> The name of the subspecies refers to its <i>locus typicus</i>: Peleng Island off Sulawesi. <b>Type material</b>. Holotype, &amp;female;: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, Peleng Island, xi.2008, I.G.: 31.318] (RBINS). Paratypes: 2 &amp;female;: same data (RBINS). Coordinates of Peleng Island: 1°24′S 123°10′E <b>Diagnostic characters</b>. (1) Tegmina mainly brown on corium and with a C-shaped black marking on nodal line (Fig. 10 A); (2) hind wings with apex and sutural margin black-brown (Fig. 10 A); (3) numerous veinlets visible on hind wings, suffused with white or blue-green on disc (Fig. 10 A); (4) all legs red (Fig. 10 B). <b>Distribution</b>. Known from Peleng Island of Sulawesi. <b>Description.</b> LT: &amp;female;: (n = 3): 30.3 mm (30.0–30.5). HEAD. Red; cephalic process reaching or nearly reaching posterior margin of vertex; disc of vertex wrinkled with lateral and posterior margins carinate; frons coriaceous, covered with short golden hairs and with 2 longitudinal obsolete carinae on dorsal half, barely visible (Figs. 10 C–D); labium surpassing hind trochanters (Fig. 10 B); pedicel of antennae kidney-shaped with flagellum inserted dorso-laterally; ratio BV/LV: 4.0; BF/LF: 1.05. THORAX. Pro- and mesonotum red as head; pronotum with 2 impressed points on disc and numerous minute black points; median carina obsolete, barely distinct; mesonotum wrinkled without carina (Figs. 10 C, D); ratio BT/ LP + LM: 1.23; LM/LP: 1.59. Tegmina: brown with base of corium red and curved yellow band at mid-length, not extending beyong costal vein; irregular yellow markings along sutural margin of clavus; nodal line with C-shaped black marking in middle; sometimes greenish markings between yellow band and C-shaped marking, and on clavus; membrane dark brownblack with veins white and green and base whitish; pale whitish spot along sutural margin, after clavus (Fig. 10 A); ventrally coloured like dorsally except band of white waxy at level of dorsal yellow markings, and narrow band of white wax along nodal line (Fig. 10 B); ratio LTg/BTg: 2.12. Hind wings: base red; disc dark olivaceous green or dark brown; membrane and sutural third dark brownblack; veinlets blue-green on disc and white-green on brown-black parts (Fig. 10 A); ventrally, a narrow band of white wax between disc and membrane (Fig. 10 B). Legs: entirely red; anterior femora very slightly inflated apically; hind tibiae with 5 lateral spines, basal one big and sharp, and 7 apical spines (Fig. 10 B). Abdomen: yellow-orange with external genitalia red (Figs 10 A–B).
description: Published as part of <i>Constant, Jerome, 2013, </i><i> <strong> The Oriental lanternfly genus <em> Scamandra : new species and taxonomical notes (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) , pp. 134-148 in Zootaxa 3709 (2)</em></strong></i><strong><em> on page 139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6507525</em></strong>