Pyrops gunjii, stat. nov.
Creators: name: Constant, Jérôme
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Pyrops
Pyrops gunjii

description: Pyrops gunjii (Satô & Nagai, 1994) stat. nov.
Figs 3 A–E, 6, 8A–C, 10B
Fulgora whiteheadi gunjii Satô & Nagai 1994: 308, figs 2, 9 (Type in EUM) [described, illustrated and compared with P. whiteheadi and P. effusus, the latter mentioned as “ F. whiteheadi viridicastanea ”].
Pyrops whiteheadi gunjii – Nagai & Porion, 1996: 26, pl. 17, fig. 210 [transferred to Pyrops; listed, illustrated]. — Liang 1998: 45 [listed, erroneous mention of new combination already proposed by Nagai & Porion (1996)].
Diagnosis
In addition to the characters defining the effusus group, the species can be recognized by: (1) head yellow-brown with apical half of cephalic process blue (often faded to green in collection specimens) (Fig. 3 D–E); (2) pro- and mesonotum yellow-brown (Fig. 3A); (3) tegmina dark blue-green on corium, with small yellow-white spots; on basal half, spots slightly tranverse and rarely coalescent, spots barely distinct on membrane (Fig. 3A); (4) tegmina with large pale yellow-brown patch at nodal line and apical margin broadly infuscate (Fig. 3A).
Material examined
Type material
Holotype ♂ (examined on photographs): [Embalut, E. Kalimantan, INDONESIA, Sep. 22. 1988] [Holotype Fulgora whiteheadi gunjii, M. Sato & S. Nagai, 1994] (EUM).
Note: Satô & Nagai (1994) stated that the type was collected by S. Okada and suggested that the type location was probably “Ambalut, Samarinda” rather than “Embalut”.
Additional material
INDONESIA: 2 ♂♂, E Kalimantan, Samarinda, Mt Beratus, Aug. 2006, S. Jakl (RBINS); 1 ♀, no data (RMNH).
Examined on photographs
INDONESIA: 1 specimen (Fig. 10B), East Kalimantan, 0°32’4.70”S 117°27’46.73”E, 3 Jul. 2011, Martin Hauskrecht; 1 specimen, East Kalimantan, Kutai National Park, 7 Jan. 2009, Martin Dancak; 1 specimen, East Kalimantan, Kutai National Park, 26 Sept. 2009, “Sophie & Dale”; 1 specimen, East
Kalimantan, Kutai National Park, 28 Jan. 2010, Darwyn Moffatt-Mallett; 1 specimen, East Kalimantan, Penajam Paser Utara, 17 Mar. 2010, “Emjanda”.
Measurements and ratios
TL: ♂ (n = 2): 35.1 mm (34.5–35.6); ♀ (n = 1): 38.6 mm; TL+process: ♂ (n = 2): 39.7 mm (39.0–40.3); ♀ (n = 1): 44.0 mm; LTg/BTg = 2.53; BF/BPrH = 3.0; LPr/LF = 1.88; LPr/BPrH = 6.97.
Male genitalia
Dark brown with gonostyli paler dorsally. Pygofer higher than long, with posterior margin sinuate in lateral view (Fig. 8A). Anal tube slightly elongate, 1.10 times as long as broad, broader at 4/5 of total length (Fig. 8 A–B); lateral margins slightly sinuate (Fig. 8B) and apical margin strongly notched in dorsal view (Fig. 8B). Gonostyli (Fig. 8A) elongate with posterior margin roundly pointed (Fig. 8A, C).
Distribution
Known from Borneo, south-eastern East Kalimantan (Fig. 6).
Biology
No host tree has been identified for this species, for which records are available from the months of January, March, July, August and September.
Remarks
The species epithet refers to the Japanese entomologist Mr Yoshiaki Gunji.
description: Published as part of Constant, Jérôme, 2015, Review of the effusus group of the Lanternfly genus Pyrops Spinola, 1839, with one new species and notes on trophobiosis (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), pp. 1-23 in European Journal of Taxonomy 128 on pages 9-11, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.128, http://zenodo.org/record/3785153