Centromeria surgens Song & Webb & Liang 2016
Creators: name: Song, Zhi-Shun
name: Webb, Michael D.
name: Liang, Ai-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Dictyopharidae
Centromeria
Centromeria surgens

description: CENTROMERIA SURGENS (WALKER, 1870) STAT. REV., COMB. NOV. FIGS 2L, 25A – I   
 Dictyophora [sic] surgens Walker, 1870: 101. Holotype ♀, Indonesia (Amboina) (BMNH) (examined). Synonymized under Centromeria longipennis (Walker) by Melichar, 1912: 43, and here resurrected.   
 Fulgora nereides Kirkaldy, 1913: 14. Holotype ♂, Indonesia (Ceram) (BPBM) (not examined). New synonymy.   
 Dictyophara nereides (Kirkaldy): Muir, 1923: 239, pl. V, fig. 18.   
 Redescription. BL, ♂ 16.1 – 16.5 mm, ♀ 16.3 mm; HL, ♂ 2.0 – 2.2 mm, ♀ 1.9 mm; HW, ♂ 1.7 mm, ♀ 1.6 mm; TL, ♂ 12.8 – 13.0 mm, ♀ 13.1 mm.   
 Male genitalia with pygofer in lateral view large and broad, distinctly wider ventrally than dorsally (about 2.2: 1); posterior margin with a large hornlike process near subapex, acute apically (Fig. 25E). Gonostyles (Fig. 25E) with upper process relatively short, truncate apically. Aedeagus (Fig. 25G – I) large and robust, endosomal processes long and stout, directeded dorsally; phallobase membranous and strongly inflated, with one pair of lateral lobes short, directed dorsally and with pair of ventral lobes distinctly large and elongate, tapered towards apex (Fig. 25H, I). Segment X large and broad, in lateral view ventral margins projecting ventrally in base and distinctly concave near middle (Fig. 25E); in dorsal view ratio of length to width near middle about 1.7: 1 (Fig. 25D).   
 Type material examined. Holotype ♀ of Dictyophora [sic] surgens Walker, 1870. [Indonesia], Amboina, 67.66., Wallace, type, surgens (BMNH). Paratype ♂ of Fulgora nereides Kirkaldy, 1913. [Indonesia], Piroe, Ceram, i.1909, F. Muir; ♂, Paratype, Fulgora nereides Kirkaldy, 1913 (BPBM).   
 Other material examined. Indonesia: 1♂, Ambon I., Waai, 23.i.1965, A.M. R. Wegner; 1♂, Ambon I., Waai, v.1967, A.M. R. Wegner (both in BPBM); 1♂, Sunda, Lombok, 26.iii.1927 (Sunda Exp. Rensch); Centromeria cephalica Dist. [Synave’s handwriting], H. Synave det., 1972; 1♀, O. Lombok, Selong, 21.v.1927 (Sunda Exp. Rensch); Centromeria speilinea Walk. [Synave’s handwriting], H. Synave det., 1972 (both in MFNB); 1♂, O. Soembawa, 24- 25.v.1927 (Dompoe); 1940 – 2; Centromeria cephalica Dist. [Handwriting] (SNSD).   
 Distribution. Indonesia (Lombok, Flores, Amboina, Ceram, Sula Islands).   
 Remarks. This species was described from Amboina, Indonesia (Walker, 1870), and synonymized wrongly under C. longipennis by Melichar (1912). We here resurrect Dictyophora [sic] surgens as a valid species and move it to Centromeria. Fulgora nereides Kirkaldy, 1913 was described from Amboina and Borneo. A male specimen from Ceram, near Amboina, is labelled as ‘paratype’ of F. nereides, which was examined in the present study, suggesting that F. nereides is a junior synonym of C. surgens. The species is similar to C. speilinea, but can be distinguished from the latter by the phallobase with pair of ventral lobes distinctly large and elongate.
description: Published as part of Song, Zhi-Shun, Webb, Michael D. & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2016, Phylogenetic analysis of the Oriental genera of Orthopagini Emeljanov, 1983 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae: Dictyopharinae), with a systematic revision of the genus Centromeria Stål, 1870, pp. 33-87 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (1) on pages 73-74, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12401, http://zenodo.org/record/5366240