Drepanoza molinai Bastin, Burckhardt & Ouvrard 2023, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Bastin, Saskia
name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo
name: Hernández-Suárez, Estrella
name: Ouvrard, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Triozidae
Drepanoza
Drepanoza molinai

description: * Drepanoza molinai Bastin, Burckhardt & Ouvrard sp. nov.
(Figs 73–75, 179–185, 208–211, 266–268)
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Material examined. Holotype ♂, Tenerife: Puerto de la Cruz, 28.4037 N, 16.5731 W, 30 m alt., 22.iii.2022, Withania aristata (S. Bastin) (NHMB, dry mounted).
Paratypes. Tenerife: 1 ♀, TF12 North of La Laguna, Monte de Las Mercedes, 800 m alt., 26.ii.2005 (D. Burckhardt) (NHMB, dry mounted); 1 ♀, Anaga park, Carretera de la Cumbre / Carretera Lomo de las Bodegas, TF-123, 28.5627 N, 16.1592 W, 553 m alt., 24.iii.2018 (L. Serbina & M. Štarha) (MMBC, 96% ethanol); 5 ♂, 7 ♀, La Laguna, Bajamar, 28.5519 N, 16.3430 W, 70 m alt., 28.xi.2018, W. aristata (J. Molina & S. Bastin) (ICIA, slide mounted, 70% ethanol); 3 ♂, 5 ♀, same data but 4.xii.2018, W. aristata (S. Bastin) (MUSA, 70% ethanol); 14 ♂, 10 ♀, Puerto de la Cruz, 28.4037 N, 16.5731 W, 30 m alt., 28.i.2020, W. aristata (A. González & S. Bastin) (SBPC, slide mounted, 70% ethanol); 10 ♀, same data but (NHMB, slide mounted, 70% ethanol); 7 ♂, 1 ♀, 23 immatures, same data as holotype (NHMB, 70% ethanol); 1 ♂, San Juan de La Rambla, 28.3975 N, 16.6591 W, 70 m alt., 28.ii.2022, W. aristata (S. Bastin) (SBPC, 70% ethanol).
Description. Adult. Colouration of dry mounted material. Mature male mostly black. Vertex brown to black, genal processes black with pale apex. Antennal segments 1–3 light yellow, segments 4–10 black. Thoracic dorsum dark brown to black; sutures on thorax black. Abdominal sclerites dark, intersegmental membranes brown. Proctiger dark brown or black, paramere light maroon with black apex. Mature female light brown. Genal processes pale. Thoracic dorsum light brown; sutures on thorax dark brown. Legs pale, fore and mid legs with dark brown tibia and tarsus. Wing membrane colourless and transparent, veins yellow. Abdominal sclerites dark brown, intersegmental membranes brown. Proctiger light brown with black apex, subgenital plate light brown. Teneral specimens (material preserved in 70% ethanol) generally green. Head green yellowish. Compound eye red. Ocelli orange. Thorax green with yellow spots on pronotum, mesoscutum, mesopraescutum and mesoscutellum. Legs light green. Abdominal sclerites green with a more-or-less expanded yellow pattern.
Structure. Body length 2.2 – 2.7 mm. Head inclined at about 45º from longitudinal body axis, slightly narrower than thorax. Vertex subpentagonal, 0.6 – 0.7 times as long as broad; strongly curved apically, covered in distinct microsculpture along margins and indistinct microsculpture on disc, with short setae and 2 long setae apically; coronal suture fully developed. Genal processes (Fig. 179) 0.6 – 0.8 times as long as vertex, conical, asymmetrical, slightly diverging, covered with long setae. Antenna (Fig. 180) 1.9 – 2.0 times as long as head width; segment 3, 1.8 – 2.2 times as long as segment 4; with a single rhinarium on each of segments 4, 6, 8 and 9; antennal segment 10 (Fig. 181) with 1 terminal seta 0.9–1.1 times as long as segment and the other 2.0–2.2 times as long as segment. Meracanthus (Fig. 182) of metacoxa well developed, triangular with blunt apex. Metatibia 1.0 – 1.1 times as long as head width, with several genual spines of similar size, with 2+1 apical spurs and a row of moderately long, densely spaced bristles apically. Forewing (Fig. 183) elongate oval, 4.2 – 4.8 times as long as head width, 2.5 – 2.8 times as long as wide; with a narrowly rounded apex; vein Rs almost straight; bifurcation of vein M more-or-less on line joining apices of veins Rs and Cu 1a; vein M curved; m 1 cell value 1.2–1.3; vein Cu 1a longer than Cu; vein Cu 1b short and straight; cu 1 cell value 1.0 – 1.3; surface spinules (Fig. 184) present in cells r 2, m 1, m 2, cu 1 and cu 2, leaving spinule-free bands along the veins; spinules absent from or very sparse in cells c+sc and r 1; radular areas elongate, triangular in cells m 1, m 2 and cu 1; veins with very short setae except for costal margin, which bears slightly longer but sparser setae. Male terminalia as in Figs 73, 74, 185. Proctiger 0.3 – 0.4 times times as long as head width, 1.3 – 1.5 times as long as paramere, with anterior margin weakly rounded and posterior margin relatively straight, densely covered with long setae, mainly along posterior margin. Paramere lamellar, gradually tapering in apical third, slightly bent backward, with sclerotised apex; outer face with few long setae near posterior margin, inner face covered with sparse short setae in apical two thirds, moderately long setae near anterior margin and long setae near posterior margin, 2 – 3 times longer than the others; in posterior view, medial outline of parameres pear-shaped. Apical segment of aedeagus with right angle postero-basally, bearing a long, slender forward-directed apical projection and a slightly rounded posterior bulge; sclerotised end tube of the ductus ejaculatorius slightly sinuate. Subgenital plate subtriangular, as long as high, apex rounded, covered with moderately long setae mainly near dorsal margin and long thick setae ventrally. Female terminalia subtriangular (Fig. 75). Proctiger 0.6 times as long as head width, slightly longer than subgenital plate, apex blunt, covered with short pointed setae and a few long pointed setae, mainly on distal part; circumanal ring 0.6 – 0.7 times as long as proctiger, sinuate, with 2 unequal rows of pores, surrounded by short pointed setae. Subgenital plate short, subtriangular, truncate apically, covered with short setae mainly dorsally.
Measurements (in mm) (6 ♂, 4 ♀). Head width ♂ 0.40 – 0.44, ♀ 0.43 – 0.46; vertex length ♂ 0.14 – 0.15, ♀ 0.15 – 0.16; vertex width ♂ 0.23 – 0.25, ♀ 0.24 – 0.26; antenna length ♂ 0.76 – 0.87, ♀ 0.85 – 0.86; metatibia length ♂ 0.44 – 0.49, ♀ 0.46 – 0.47; forewing length ♂ 1.64 – 1.88, ♀ 1.99 – 2.21; forewing width ♂ 0.60 – 0.71, ♀ 0.79 – 0.82; male proctiger length 0.13 – 0.16; paramere length 0.10 – 0.12; distal segment of aedeagus length 0.09; female proctiger length 0.21 – 0.25; female anal ring length 0.56 – 0.65.
Fifth-instar immature. Colouration. Green to orange yellowish dorsally.
Structure. Body (Fig. 208) 1.5–1.6 times as long as wide. Antenna 0.3–0.4 times as long as forewing pad. Tarsal arolium (Fig. 210) circular, without claws. Marginal sectasetae (Fig. 209) scale-like, present in following numbers: forewing pad 41–45, hindwing pad 5–7 and caudal plate 33–35. Caudal plate 0.7 times as long as wide. Anus ventral; outer circumanal ring (Fig. 211) completely closed, transversely oval, consisting of a single row of pores.
Measurements (in mm) (3 individuals). Body length 1.1–1.2 mm; length of forewing pad 0.57–0.62.
Etymology. Named after Jonathan Molina Hernández, who collected part of the type series.
Host plant CI. Withania aristata (Solanaceae).
Distribution CI. Tenerife.
Biology. The immatures induce pit galls in leaves (Figs 294–296) in which they develop. Each gall can contain one to five immatures. Immatures are sometimes parasitized (Fig. 293) by eulophid wasps (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), adults and immatures by ectoparasitic mites (Prostigmata: Trombidiidae).
Comments. The males of Drepanoza molinai and D. montanetana (see Aguiar 2001 for the description and illustrations of the latter) share similarly shaped head, forewing and terminalia. Drepanoza molinai differs from the latter in having a more strongly curved ‘head’ of the distal segment of the aedeagus and a less curved-back paramere. In the female terminalia, D. molinai resembles D. fernandesi and D. lienhardi but differs from them in having an apically narrowly rounded forewing (rather than pointed). It differs from D. fernandesi also in having a sinuate circumanal ring, longer genal processes and a slightly curved paramere, and from D. lienhardi in having a backwards-bent paramere (relatively straight in D. lienhardi).
description: Published as part of Bastin, Saskia, Burckhardt, Daniel, Reyes-Betancort, Alfredo, Hernández-Suárez, Estrella & Ouvrard, David, 2023, A review of the jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) of the Canary Islands, with descriptions of two new genera and sixteen new species, pp. 1-98 in Zootaxa 5313 (1) on pages 48-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5313.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8129996