Polydictya bantimurung Constant 2015, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Constant, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Polydictya
Polydictya bantimurung

description: Polydictya bantimurung sp. nov.
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Figs 1, 7–8
Diagnosis
(1) Tegmina brown, with whitish spots: large one at apex of clavus, 2 small ones along claval suture and 3–4 on disc of membrane; external margin of clavus and 3–4 patches along costal margin, pale greenish yellow (Fig. 1A); (2) hind wings without basal red patch (Fig. 1A); (3) frons regularly rounded in dorsal view, not projecting anteriorly (Fig. 1C), dark brown with ventro-lateral angles yellow-brown (Fig. 1D); (4) anterior tibiae not laminate (Fig. 1 A–B); (5) abdomen red dorsally (Fig. 1A); (6) genital segments dark brown.
Etymology
The species epithet refers to the type location, Bantimurung, and is treated as a noun in apposition.
Type material
Holotype
♂: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Sulawesi, Bantimurung, 4°54’S 119°45’E, Gift J. Constant, I.G.: 32.561] (RBINS).
Paratypes
2 ♂♂, 4 ♀♀: [Bantimurung, Sulawesi, 6.02, Coll. thierry PORION] (MHNL). Note: “6.02” on the labels of the paratypes stands for June 2002.
Description
MEASUREMENTS AND RATIOS. LT: ♂ (n = 3): 24.7 mm (23.9–25.1); ♀ (n = 4): 29.0 mm (28.0–29.5); LTg/ BTg = 3.24; BV/LV = 5.4; LF/BF = 0.70.
HEAD. Black-brown with ventro-lateral angles of frons yellow-brown (Fig. 1D, F); vertex curved and deeply grooved transversely with lowest point in middle, with all 4 margins carinate (Fig. 1C); frons slightly visible from above (Fig. 1C), convex, smooth, subquadrate with impressed, S-shaped longitudinal groove along lateral margin, starting in front of eye (Fig. 1D); clypeus narrower and shorter than frons, brown apically (Fig. 1D); labium elongate, surpassing coxae (Fig. 1B); antennae yellowbrown with scape cylindrical, elongate; pedicel bulbous (Fig. 1F).
THORAX. Black-brown with lateral pleura of pronotum yellow-brown along ventral margin; mesonotum darker than pronotum (Fig. 1C, F); pro-, meso- and metasternites brown (Fig. 1B); pronotum with transverse wrinkles, longitudinal carina and pair of impressed points on disc; mesonotum smooth with disc wrinkled; scutellum impressed on disc and with apex elevated (Fig. 1C); tegulae dark brown with posterior half yellow-brown (Fig. 1C, F).
TEGMINA. (Figs 1 A–C). Dark brown with whitish spots on disc: one large, subquadrate at apex of clavus, 2 small ones along claval suture and 3–4 in a longitudinal row near nodal line; external margin of clavus and 3–4 large patches along costal margin, pale greenish yellow; costal and sutural margins subparallel, apex obliquely rounded.
HIND WINGS. (Fig. 1 A–B). Entirely dark brown, broader than tegmina.
LEGS. (Fig. 1 A–B). All legs dark reddish brown with tarsi I and II darker; tibiae I and II slender; tibiae III with 4–5 lateral and 7 apical spines.
ABDOMEN. (Fig. 1 A–B). Bright red dorsally with 2 basal tergites black; black-brown ventrally; genital segments dark brown.
MALE GENITALIA. Pygofer, anal tube and gonostyli dark brown; pygofer higher than long, with posterior margin sinuate in lateral view and showing apically rounded conical process in middle (Fig. 8 A–B); anal tube elongate, 2.36 times longer than broad, broader at 2/3 of total length, strongly curved ventrally near base (Fig. 8 A–B); lateral margins sinuate (Fig. 8B) and apical margin strongly notched in dorsal view (Fig. 8C); gonostyli (Fig. 8A) elongate with posterior half much broader and strong subbasal constriction in lateral view; strong tooth directed antero-ventrally at half length; apical margin subquadrate; phallic complex (Fig. 8 D–E) with endosomal process of aedeagus laminate, slightly concave externally, showing irregular dorsal teeth along body, and apex strongly curved dorsally, hook-shaped.
Distribution
Known from South Sulawesi (Fig. 7).
description: Published as part of Constant, Jérôme, 2015, The Lanternfly genus Polydictya (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) from Sulawesi and neighbouring islands, with the description of three new species, pp. 1-19 in European Journal of Taxonomy 110 on pages 7-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.110, http://zenodo.org/record/3778464