Anasta lobosa Song & Liang, 2013, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Song, Zhi-Shun
name: Liang, Ai-Ping
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Dictyopharidae
Anasta
Anasta lobosa

description: Anasta lobosa sp. nov.
(Figs 1 B, 3B, 7–9)
Diagnosis. The new species is similar to A. minuta (Lallemand), but can be separated from the latter by the relatively short cephalic process, and the forewings with M vein first bifurcated to M1+2 and M3+4 nearly abreast with bifurcation of Sc+R, distinctly beyond CuA.
Description. Body length (from apex of cephalic process to tip of forewings): ♂ 11.5 mm; length of head: 2.4 mm; width of head (including eyes): 1.1 mm; length of forewings: 8.4 mm.
Cephalic process (Fig. 7A –C) in front of eyes distinctly elongate and slightly upturned. Vertex (Fig. 7A) with the ratio of length in central line to width in base 3.02:1; median carina only distinct between eyes. Frons (Fig. 7 B) elongate, intermediate carinae nearly parallel, median carina distinct and complete. Forewings (Fig. 3 B) with M vein first bifurcated to M1+2 and M3+4 veins near middle, nearly abreast with bifurcation of Sc+R, distinctly beyond CuA; stigmal area with 1 transverse veins.
Male genitalia with gonostyles (Fig. 8 D) large and broad, apex with a small obtuse process; upper process prolonged, not incurved, acute apically. Aedeagus (Fig. 9A –C) large and broad, compressed dorsoventrally, bases of phallobase sclerotized and pigmented, the remainder membranous sac-like; dorsal lobes large, broad and inflated, more or less sclerotized, with a pair of small apical processes on each side, directed posteriorly in dorsal view; ventrolateral lobes small, flat and rounded at each end, dorsal end small, directed posteriorly, ventral end large, incurved ventrally and crossed in ventral view; ventral part with a small lobe in middle under ventrolateral lobes. Segment X (Fig. 8A) distinctly elongate, lateral margin nearly parallel, with the ratio of length to width in base about 2.1: 1 in dorsal view; ventral apical margin conspicuously concave.
Material examined. Holotype ♂, PAPUA NEW GUINEA: SE Popondetta, 18 m, light trap, 30– 15.VIII.1963, J. Sedlacek (BPBM).
Etymology. The name of this species is derived from the Greek “lobos”, referring to its paired large, sac-like and inflated lobes in aedeagus.
Distribution. Papua New Guinea.
Anasta minuta (Lallemand, 1935) comb. nov.
Fulgora minuta Lallemand, 1935: 673, Figs 14, 15.
Dictyophara minuta (Lallemand): Metcalf, 1946: 167.
Remarks. According to Lallemand’s description, A. minuta comb. nov. is very similar to A. timorina from Timor, Indonesia. A. minuta comb. nov. can be distinguished from the latter by the longer cephalic process and a longer prominent media carina on vertex (Lallemand 1935). We didn’t have chance to examine the both species Distribution. Indonesia (Timor).
description: Published as part of Song, Zhi-Shun & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2013, Review of the genus Anasta Emeljanov (Hemiptera: Dictyopharidae: Hastini) from the Australasian region, pp. 551-568 in Zootaxa 3741 (4) on pages 556-559, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/249054