Penthimia montana Distant
Creators: name: Shobharani, M.
name: Viraktamath, C. A.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Penthimia
Penthimia montana

description: Penthimia montana Distant
Figs 66, 134–138, 244–247.
Penthimia montana Distant, 1918: 17.
Penthimia nilgiriensis Distant, 1918:16 –17. S yn. nov.
Male: Crown orange-yellow variably marked with dark brown apically. Face black. Pronotum yellow variably tinged with green and usually with brown marking anteriorly. Scutellum orange-yellow with transverse suture and a spot on each side on disc dark brown sometimes markings coalescing, with variable dark brown basal triangles. Forewings brownish hyaline with dense orange-tessellate spots, sometimes with some darker brown marking distally. Body beneath black.
Female. Crown and pronotum yellow with variable orange markings. Scutellum orange-brown. Forewings brownish hyaline with dense yellow to orange-brown tessellate spots. Body beneath yellow to black.
Male genitalia. Valve with posterior margin broadly rounded. Subgenital plate with long fine setae. Connective with arms about as long as stem. Style linear with well developed preapical lobe, apical apophysis finger-like, curved laterally. Aedeagus with well developed dorsal apodeme and preatrium; shaft directed caudo-dorsally, then erect dorsally with serrated lateral margins, gradually tapering to apex, basal half smooth, distal half with large number of spicules, gonopore apical.
Length. Male 5.2–5.8mm. Female 5.8–6.4mm.
Type material examined. INDIA: Lectotype ♂ P. montana (here designated): ‘Type H.T’ ‘ Penthimia montana Dist. type [hw]’ ‘Lovedale, Nilgiri Hills, S. India, 7200ft [hw], T. V. Campbell’ ‘81 8‘, ‘L 5.15 81 8’ [handwritten under specimen card], ‘S. India, E. A. Butler 1915-60 ’. Lectotype ♀ P. nilgiriensis Distant (here designated): ‘Type H. T.’ ’Lovedale [hw], Nilgiri Hills, S. India, T. V. Campbell’, ‘45 6‘, ‘L 6.15, 45 6 ‘[handwritten under specimen card], ‘S. India, E. A. Butler, 1915-60 ’ ‘on Rhododendron [hw]’. Both BMNH with ‘L’ code numbers for Lovedale.
Other material examined. INDIA: 1♂, ‘ S. India, Lovedale, Nilgiri Hills, S. India, 7200ft [hw], T. V. Campbell’, ‘81 8‘ ‘L 6.15’ ‘ Penthimia montana Dist. [hw]’; 1♂, S. India, Nilgiri Hills, Lovedale, T. V. Campbell, ‘L 6.15’; 1♂, S. India, Madras, Coonoor, T. V. Campbell, ‘C. 5.15’; 1♀, ‘Lovedale [hw], Nilgiri Hills, S. India, 7200ft [hw]’ T. V. Campbell’, ‘85 6‘,‘L 5.15’ ‘ Brit. Mus. 1926-121’ ‘on Rhododendron [hw]’; 1♀, ‘ Lovedale, Nilgiri Hills, S. India, T. V. Campbell’ ‘85 6‘, ‘L. 5.15’; 7♀, S. India, Nilgiri Hills, Lovedale, T. V. Campbell’. All BMNH with ‘L’ and ‘C’ code numbers for Lovedale and Coonoor handwritten under specimen cards.
Remarks. Both this species and its synonym were described from an unknown number of specimens (syntype) with the following data: ‘Nilgiri Hills; Lovedale (T. V. Campbell)’. One specimen each of P. montana and P. nilgiriensis are considered syntypes as they have both BMNH registration labels dated before their publication date and original data labels. The remaining specimens listed under ‘Other material examined’ are topotypical but we cannot be sure of their status (see Material and Methods). This species and P. quadrinotata can be distinguished by their relatively pale dorsum (particularly females) but the former is larger and the genitalia is distinctly different. The aedeagal shaft of P. montana and P. fraterna is similar in having spicules and serrated lateral margins, however, they differ in the curvature of the shaft in lateral view and shape in caudal view (compare Figs. 118, 119 with 137, 138). Although P. nilgiriensis was described first by Distant (1918) we prefer to use the name P. montana as its type is a male
description: Published as part of Shobharani, M., Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D., 2018, Review of the leafhopper genus Penthimia Germar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from the Indian subcontinent with description of seven new species, pp. 1-45 in Zootaxa 4369 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1135478