Pyrops ducalis
Creators: name: Jiaranaisakul, Kawin
name: Constant, Jerome
name: Pinkaew, Nantasak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Pyrops
Pyrops ducalis

description: Pyrops ducalis (Stål, 1863)
(Figs 5, 16B)
= Hotinus ducalis — Stål 1863: 576 [original description].
= Fulgora ducalis — Butler 1874: 100 [in section of species with blue-green wings, listed]; Lallemand 1963: 72 [keyed, described], pl. 10, figs. 17–19 [male genitalia illustrated].
= Laternaria ducalis — Metcalf 1947: 195 [catalogued].
= Pyrops ducalis — Nagai & Porion 1996: 24 [catalogued], pl. 13, fig. 184 [illustration]; Constant et al. 2016: 11 [recorded from Cambodia], fig. 3 F [live specimen]; Jiaranaisakul & Wonglersak 2021: 171 [catalogued], fig. 6 G [illustrated]; Constant & Pham 2022: 137–138 [listed, keyed], fig. 17 [habitus illustrated].
Diagnosis. (1) cephalic process dark red, orange ventrally and at apex (Fig. 5D–E); (2) tegmina greenish blue covered with milky white wax forming a cloudy pattern (Fig. A); (3) posterior wings pale blue or white basally, dark brown on apical margin (Fig. 5A); (4) abdomen pale brown dorsally and dark brown ventrally (Fig. 5A–B).
Mesurements and ratio. TL: ♁ (n = 3): 42.4 mm (41.8–43.3 mm); TL+process: ♁ (n = 3): 59.2 mm (55.5–62 mm); LTg/BTg = 2.59; BF/BPrH = 2.07; LPr/LF = 3.52; LPr/BPrH = 7.91.
Material examined. 1 ♁: Chanthaburi Province, Khao Khitchakut District, 21.VII.2020, K. Jiaranaisakul leg., KJ02-00142 (RBMF); 1 ♁: Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Mu Si District, 4.IV.2021, K. Jiaranaisakul leg., KJ02-00189 (RBMF); 1 ♁: Chanthaburi Province, Soi Dao District, 10.VII.2022, K. Jiaranaisakul leg., KJ02- 00307 (RBMF).
Material examined from iNaturalist.
Chanthaburi Province: Khao Khitchakut Dist., 13°01’00.0”N 102°05’00.0”E, 4 specimens: 1 ex., 20.XII.2014, parinyaherp; 1 ex., 3.XI.2015, ian_dugdale; 2 ex., 21.VI.2020, k_jiaranaisakul; Pong Nam Ron Dist., 12°56’00.0”N 102°13’00.0”E, 1 specimen: 1 ex., 19.V.2016, ian_dugdale; Soi Dao Dist., 13°06’00.0”N 102°11’00.0”E, 2 specimens: 1 ex., 28.VII.2011, lennyworthington; 1 ex., 25.IV.2023, stefanie_de_win.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province: Pak Chong Dist., 14°26’00.0”N 101°24’00.0”E, 31 specimens: 2 ex., 17.VII.2012, markread; 1 ex., 14.VII.2015, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 13.X.2015, kingbird18; 1 ex., 29.VII.2016, naturegirlkh; 1 ex., 3.X.2016, niran_anurakpongsathorn; 1 ex., 12.X.2017, qin_huang; 1 ex., 7.VI.2018, jmaughn; 1 ex., 29.VII.2019, jiroiguchi; 1 ex., 10.VIII.2019, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 3.IV.2021, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 5.IV.2021, k_jiaranaisakul; 11 ex., 2.VII.2021, mmoraa; 2 ex., 17.VIII.2021, petereric; 1 ex., 5.IX.2021, noppawan1; 1 ex., 8.IX.2021, andaman; 1 ex., 5.VI.2022, joost_s; 1 ex., 26.VI.2022, patta-v; 1 ex., 26.VI.2022, doobird; 1 ex., 5.VI.2023, super_tz; 1 ex., 16.VIII.2023, atheist.
Prachinburi Province: Prachantakham Dist., 14°22’00.0”N 101°29’00.0”E, 1 specimen: 1 ex., 6.IX.2022, ioannism.
Distribution. Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam (Jiaranaisakul & Wonglersak, 2021; Constant & Pham, 2022).
Notes. The specimens were collected and observed on Dimocarpus longan Lour. (Sapindaceae) (new plant association) in Nakhon Ratchasima Province and Balakata baccata (Roxb.) Esser (Euphorbiaceae) (new plant association) in Chanthaburi Province.
description: Published as part of Jiaranaisakul, Kawin, Constant, Jerome & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2024, Review of the lanternfly genus Pyrops of Thailand (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with notes and keys to species, pp. 47-79 in Zootaxa 5397 (1) on pages 58-59, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10468319