Scamandra huangi Constant, 2013, sp. n.
Creators: name: Constant, Jerome
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Scamandra
Scamandra huangi

description: <i>Scamandra huangi</i> sp. n. Figs 2A–D; 7A–E; 16. <b>Etymology.</b> The species is dedicated to Mr. Fang-Ying Huang (Chia-yi city, Taiwan) who provided the first specimens of this new species. <b>Type material</b>. Holotype, &amp;male; (dissected, genitalia in glycerine on the same pin): [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, Taliabu Island, i.2008, I.G.: 31.318] (RBINS). Paratypes (25): 5 &amp;female;: same data as holotype (RBINS); 1 &amp;male;: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., Indonesia, Taliabu Isl., v.2006, purchased from A. Chaminade, I.G.: 31.400] (RBINS); 1 &amp;female;: [Coll. I.R.Sc. N.B., Indonesia, Taliabu Isl., iv.2008, purchased from A. van Vyve, I.G.: 31.502] (RBINS); 1 &amp;female;: idem, x.2005 (RBINS); 1 &amp;male;: idem, ii.2007 (RBINS); 1 &amp;male;: idem, xii.2006 (RBINS); 1 &amp;male;: idem, vii.2006 (RBINS); 1 &amp;male;: idem, v.2006 (RBINS); 3 &amp;male;, 7 &amp;female;: [Taliabu Isl., Indonésie, 1.05, Coll. Thierry Porion] (MHNL); 1 &amp;male;, 1 &amp;female;: [Taliabu, Jan. 05] (MHNL); 1 &amp;female;: idem, xii.2006 (MHNL). Coordinates of Taliabu Island: 1°48’S 124°48’E <b>Additional material examined</b>. 1 &amp;male;: Indonesia, Taliabu Isl., ii.2006 (CAVV); 1 &amp;female;: idem, iv.2008 (CAVV); 1 &amp;female;: idem, x.2005 (CAVV). <b>Diagnostic characters</b>. (1) disc of frons and mesonotum dark black-brown (Fig. 7 C–D); (2) nodal line of tegmina C-shaped in middle (Fig. 7 A, E); (3) hind wings with anal and sutural zones red (Fig. 7 A); (4) femora black-brown (Fig. 7 B). <b>Description</b>. LT: &amp;male; (n = 7): 29.0 mm (28.5–29.6); &amp;female;: (n = 9): 35.9 mm (34.0–38.8). HEAD. Yellow-brown to red-brown, with frons black-brown except sides, clypeus dark brown and labium brown. Cephalic process not reaching posterior margin of vertex; vertex short, with disc wrinkled, and lateral and posterior margins carinate; frons coriaceous with short hairs and 3 longitudinal carinae distinct only on dorsal half (Figs 7 C–D); labium surpassing hind trochanters (Fig. 7 B); pedicel of antennae kidney-shaped with flagellum inserted dorso-laterally; ratio BV/LV: 3.7; BF/LF: 1.04. THORAX. pronotum yellow-brown to red-brown as head, with short hairs, 2 impressed points on disc and numerous minute black points; median carina obsolete, barely distinct (Fig. 7 C); lateral pleura of pronotum largely blackbrown (Fig. 7 D); mesonotum red-brown with disc black-brown, without carina (Fig. 7 C); ratio BT/LP + LM: 1.16; LM/LP: 1.72. Tegmina olivaceous to olivaceous-brown with membrane yellow-brown; dorsally base red-brown, costal margin green in middle, narrow, yellow curved transverse band at half length, yellow spot at base of vein M and sometimes small yellow spots along sutural margin of clavus; limit between corium and clavus strongly bisinuate with large brown to black C-shaped marking in middle (Fig. 7 A); ventrally, corium dark red-brown with base red and membrane red-brown, one spot and one transverse band of white wax at level of dorsal yellow markings (Fig. 7 B); ratio LTg/BTg: 2.32. Hind wings: ventrally and dorsally disc dark red-brown with turquoise veinlets, base and anal margin broadly bright red, membrane brown (Figs. 7 A–B). Legs: dark red-brown with femora darker, black-brown; anterior femora inflated apically; hind tibiae with 4–5 lateral spines, basal one well developed, and 7 apical spines (Figs. 7 A–B). Abdomen: red (Figs. 7 A–B). MALE GENITALIA. Pygofer 2.9 times higher than long in middle in lateral view, with posterior margin slightly sinuate on dorsal ¼ (Fig. 2 A); anal tube short, transverse, about 1.5 times broader than long in dorsal view, and slightly more than twice broader at apex than at base; sides sligtly rounded, apical margin pointed in middle dorsally, projecting downwards ventrally, strongly roundly emarginate in lateral view (Figs. 2 C, D); gonostyli longer than high in lateral view, subtriangular with apical margin rounded (Fig. 2 A); latero-dorsal tooth of gonostyli projecting latero-ventrally (Figs. 2 A, B).
description: Published as part of <i>Constant, Jerome, 2013, </i><i> <strong> The Oriental lanternfly genus <em> Scamandra : new species and taxonomical notes (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) , pp. 134-148 in Zootaxa 3709 (2)</em></strong></i><strong><em> on pages 136-137, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6507525</em></strong>