Mastigimas reseri Burckhardt, Queiroz & Drohojowska, 2013, sp. n.
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 reseri

description: Mastigimas reseri sp. n.
(Figs 9, 18, 26, 34, 42)
Mastigimas spec. nov. 1, Burckhardt et al., 2011: 110.
Material examined. Holotype ♂, Jamaica: Saint James, Spring Garden, near Reading, about 8 km West Montego Bay, 30 m, 21–31.i.1997, light trap (L. Rezbanyai-Reser) (NHMB, dry mounted).
Paratypes. Jamaica: 38 ♂, 32 ♀, same data as holotype (NHMB, dry mounted and stored in 70 % ethanol); 4 ♂, 6 ♀, same data but 21–30.iv.1993 (MHNG, NHMB, dry mounted); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 21–30.ix.1996 (NHMB, 70 % ethanol); 5 ♂, 15 ♀, same data but 1–10.x.1996; 25 ♂, 25 ♀, same data but 11–20.x.1996; 4 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 21–31.x.1996; 20 ♂, 23 ♀, same data but 1–10.xi.1996; 127 ♂, 85 ♀, same data but 11–20.xi.1996; 43 ♂, 64 ♀, same data but 21–30.xi.1996); 96 ♂, 91 ♀, same data but 1–10.xii.1996 (MZPW, NHMB, stored in 70 % ethanol); 5 ♂, 5 ♀, same data but 1–10.xii.1996 (BMNH, NHMB, USNM, dry mounted); 75 ♂, 76 ♀, same data but 11–20.xii.1996 (NHMB, dry and slide mounted, 70 % ethanol); 17 ♂, 25 ♀, same data but 21–31.xii.1996 (NHMB, 70 % ethanol); 4 ♂, 10 ♀, same data but 1–10.i.1997; 46 ♂, 49 ♀, same data but 11–20.i.1997; 12 ♂, 33 ♀, same data but 1–10.ii.1997; 10 ♂, 28 ♀, same data but 1–10.iii.1997; 32 ♂, 48 ♀, same data but 11–20.iii.1997; 5 ♂, 4 ♀, same data but 21–31.iii1997; 3 ♂, 7 ♀, same data but 21–30.iv.1997; 7 ♂, 13 ♀, same data but 1– 10.v.1997; 32 ♂, 52 ♀, same data but 11–20.v.1997; 1 ♂, same data but 100 m, 1–10.viii.1994 (NHMB, dry mounted); 2 ♀, same data but 11–20.vii.1995 (NHMB, 70 % ethanol); 1 ♀, same data but 11–20.xii.1995; 2 ♀, same data but 21–31.xii.1995; 2 ♀, same data but 1–10.ii.1996; 4 ♀, same data but 21–29.ii.1996; 3 ♀, same data but 11–20.iii.1996; 9 ♀, same data but 21–31.iii.1996; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, same data but 1–10.iv.1996; 1 ♂, 4 ♀, same data but 11–20.iv.1996; 2 ♂, 2 ♀, same data but 21–30.iv.1996; 3 ♀, same data but 11–20.ii.1999.
Description. Adult. Colouration. Male straw-coloured or ochreous dorsally, slightly lighter ventrally, thorax and abdomen with a dark brown band which is narrow on the thorax and wide on the abdomen. Head dark posteriorly, margin of toruli brown. Compound eyes brown, ocelli orange. Antenna brown, lighter basally, getting gradually darker towards apex. Mesopraescutum whitish laterally and posteriorly, mesoscutum with four light, narrow longitudinal stripes, light laterally. Tooth-like process in the middle of metanotum and lateral areas dark brown. Forewing transparent with brown veins and light or dark pterostigma; hindwing transparent, costal vein light brown. Apices of femora dark brown, tibiae in apical half and tarsi ochreous. Abdomen ochreous dorsally at base, brown laterally at base and completely at apex, whitish ventrally except for apex which is brown. Male proctiger and parameres brown, subgenital plate whitish. Female similar but lacking brown elements except for tooth-like process on metanotum which is dark brown and sometimes very reduced brown pattern laterally.
Structure. Anterior head margin, in dorsal view, forming 'U'-shaped cleft between large toruli. Antenna 3.23– 5.14 (4.31±0.51) times as long as head width, segment 3 1.2–1.3 times as long as segment 4. Forewing (Fig. 9) 4.11–5.37 (4.59±0.39) times as long as head width, 1.97–2.74 (2.41±0.17) times as long wide, pterostigma short and broad, ratio a/b 0.6, cell cu1 moderately high. Male proctiger 0.23–0.38 (0.31±0.05) times as long as head width. Paramere (Figs 18, 26) bifid, with large, narrowly rounded outer lobe and moderately large inner tooth-like tube. Distal portion of aedeagus (Fig. 34) weakly inflated lacking apical hook. Female terminalia (Fig. 42) moderately long; proctiger 1.15–1.44 (1.29±0.08) times as long as head width, and 1.55–2.00 (1.70±0.15) times as long as subgenital plate.
Measurements (10 ♂, 10 ♀, in mm). Body length ♂ 3.70–4.10 (3.95±0.11), ♀ 4.55–4.90 (4.75±0.14), head width 0.70–0.80 (0.74±0.03), antenna length 2.26–3.82 (3.19±0.45), forewing length 2.96–4.00 (3.39±0.37), metatibia length 0.71–0.93 (0.84±0.07), male proctiger length 0.17–0.27 (0.22±0.03), paramere length 0.13–0.17 (0.15±0.02), female proctiger length 0.90–1.05 (0.97±0.05).
Fifth instar immature unknown.
Etymology. The species is named after its collector Dr. Lazi Rezbanyai-Reser (Lucerne).
Distribution. Jamaica.
Host plant unknown.
Comments. Based on the short pterostigma and the narrow outer process of the paramere. M. reseri is closest related to M. schwarzi from which it differs in the smaller length ratio of antennal segments 3/4, the smaller inner lobe of the paramere, the slightly less expanded apical inflation of the distal portion of the aedeagus, and the longer female terminalia.
The type material was collected in light traps at two nearby locations at 30 m and 100 m altitude (Rezbanyai- Reser 1998). Psyllids were observed in the years 1993, 1995, 1996 and 1997 in the period from September to January. It is interesting to note that no psyllids were present in the light trap run at the same location from 20 January to 8 March 2000 (L. Rezbanyai-Reser pers. comm.).
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 12-13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/285261