Mastigimas schwarzi Tuthill
Creators: name: Burckhardt, Daniel
name: Queiroz, Dalva L.
name: Drohojowska, Jowita
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Calophyidae
Mastigimas
Mastigimas schwarzi

description: Mastigimas schwarzi (Tuthill)
(Figs 10, 19, 27, 35, 43, 48)
Freysuila dugesii sensu Schwarz, 1899: 197, nec Aleman, 1887.
Freysuila cohahuayanae Ferris, 1928: 111, p. p.; synonymised by Tuthill, 1950: 56.
Coelocara schwarzi Tuthill, 1945: 237, replacement name for Freysuila dugesii sensu Schwarz nec Aleman.
Material examined. Belize: 1 ♂, Toledo, Columbia River, 8.ii.1962, Cedrela mexicana saplings in plantation (R. D. Toleman) (BMNH, dry mounted); 2 ♂, 2 ♀, Chiquibul Forest Reserve, 2.vii.1968, on leaves of Cedrela (F. D. Bennett) (BMNH, dry mounted); 3 ♀, 12 immatures, Cayo, Chiquibul Forest, New Maria track, 29.xi.1994, Cedrela (J. H. Martin) (BMNH, slide mounted); 1 ♀, 7 immatures, same but? Cedrela sp., sprouting trunc (BMNH, slide mounted; 11 ♂, 7 ♀, same data but San Pastor plot, 17.ii.1996 (King & Howe) (BMNH, dry mounted).— Costa Rica: 12 ♂, 6 ♀, 12 immatures, San José, San Pedro, university campus, 1100 m, 17–18.i.1993, Cedrela mexicana (D. Hollis) (BMNH, dry and slide mounted); 2 ♂, 1 ♀ same but San José, 20.x.1932 (F. Nevermann) (MHNG, NHMB, dry mounted); 5 ♂, 6 ♀, 13 immatures, Cartago Province, 3 km North of Tres Rios, Finca Los Lotes, 1550 m, 10.iii.1993, Cedrela? tonduzii (D. Hollis) (BMNH, dry and slide mounted); 1 ♀, Coto Brus, Las Alturas, 1500 m, v.1992 (P. Hanson); 3 ♂, 2 ♀, Ciudad Colo, El Rodeo, Finca Hamadryas, 800 m, 2.i.2009, Cedrela odorata (D. Bolt) (NHMB, dry mounted).— Honduras: 1 ♀, Ocotopeque, 11 miles NE Nueva Ocotopeque, 6900 feet, 25.vii.1974 (O'Biens & Marshall) (CAS, dry mounted).— Jamaica: 4 ♂, 1 ♀, Portland Parish, Caenwood, i–iii.1981, yellow sticky band in coconut grove (BMNH, slide mounted).— Mexico: 1 ♀, 5 miles N Tamazunchale, 22.xii.1948 (H. B. Lech) (CAS, dry mounted).— Panama: 1 ♀, Bocas de Toros, Miramar, 9°N, 82°15’W, 8.iii.1979 (H. Wolda) (BMNH, slide mounted).
Description of adult by Brown & Hodkinson (1988).
Fifth instar immature. Antennal segments 3/4 length ratio 1.60–1.67. Forewing pad/ antennal segment 3 length ratio 2.25–2.47. Caudal plate (Fig. 48) angular posteriorly, 1.72–1.79 times as wide as long. Distance between anterior and posterior bands of caudal plate larger than distance between posterior band and anus, measured laterally. Circumanal ring very small, transverse diameter about 8–10 times as wide as on one side, consisting of 3–4 rows.
Measurements (2 specimens, in mm). Length of antennal segment 3 0.75–0.80; forewing pad length 1.80–1.85; caudal plate length 1.40–1.45.
Distribution. Recorded from Mexico (Schwarz 1899; Tuthill 1950), Costa Rica, Cuba and Mexico (Tuthill 1950), Panama, Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica (Brown & Hodkinson 1988), Costa Rica (Burckhardt et al. 2011), Venezuela, Belize and Cuba (Hodkinson & White 1981), and new for Honduras.
Host plants. Cedrela odorata L. (= mexicana M. Roem.) and questionably C. tonduzii C. DC.
Comments. Ferris (1928) listed Ficus sp. as host which is unlikely (Heslop-Harrison 1961; Brown & Hodkinson 1988).
description: Published as part of Burckhardt, Daniel, Queiroz, Dalva L. & Drohojowska, Jowita, 2013, Revision of the neotropical jumping plant-louse genus Mastigimas (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) attacking Cedrela and Toona species (Meliaceae), pp. 1-18 in Zootaxa 3745 (1) on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285261