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

description: <i>Scamandra vanvyvei</i> sp. n. Figs 9A–E; 16. <b>Etymology.</b> The species is dedicated to Mr Alain van Vyve (France) who provided the first specimens. <b>Type material</b>. Holotype, &amp;female;: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, C E Sulawesi, Luwuk, iv.2008, Purchased from A. van Vyve, I.G.: 31.502] (RBINS). Paratypes (19): 1 &amp;female;: same data, xii.2007 (RBINS); 8 &amp;female;: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, E Sulawesi, Luwuk, vi.2007, exchange S. Jakl, I.G.: 31.970] (RBINS); 8 &amp;female;: [Indonesie, E-Sulawesi, Luwuk, 2/09] (MHNL); 1 &amp;female;: [Luwuk, 3.07, C.E. Sulawesi] (MHNL); 1&amp;female;: [Luwuk, E-Sulawesi, 3/07] (MHNL). Coordinates of Luwuk: 0°55'48.32"S 122°47'45.96"E. <b>Additional material examined.</b> 2 &amp;female;: C E Sulawesi, Luwuk, ii.2008 (CAVV); 1 &amp;female;: idem, iv.2008 (CAVV); 1 &amp;female;: idem, xii.2007 (CAVV). <b>Diagnostic characters.</b> (1) Tegmina dark green on corium and with a C-shaped black marking on nodal line (Fig. 9 A); (2) hind wings with apex and sutural margin black-brown (Fig. 9 A); (3) numerous veinlets visible on hind wings, suffused with blue-green on disc (Fig. 9 A); (4) all legs red (Fig. 9 B). <b>Distribution</b>. Known from Sulawesi. <b>Description</b>. LT: &amp;female;: (n = 14): 30.8 mm (28.9–32.1). HEAD. Red; cephalic process reaching or nearly reaching posterior margin of vertex; disc of vertex wrinkled with lateral and posterior margins carinate; frons coriaceous, covered with short golden hairs and with 2 longitudinal obsolete carinae on dorsal half, barely visible (Figs. 9 C–D); labium surpassing hind trochanters (Fig. 9 B); pedicel of antennae kidney-shaped with flagellum inserted dorso-laterally; ratio BV/LV: 4.0; BF/LF: 1.06. THORAX. Pro- and mesonotum red as head; pronotum with 2 impressed points on disc and numerous minute black points; median carina obsolete, barely distinct; mesonotum wrinkled without carina (Figs. 9 C–D); ratio BT/ LP + LM: 1.16; LM/LP: 1.94. Tegmina: dark green with base of corium red and curved yellow band at mid-length, not extending beyong costal vein; irregular yellow markings along sutural margin of clavus; nodal line with C-shaped black marking in middle; membrane dark brown-black with veins white and green and base whitish; pale whitish spot along sutural margin, after clavus (Fig. 9 A); ventrally coloured like dorsally except band of white waxy at level of dorsal yellow markings, and narrow band of white wax along nodal line (Fig. 9 B); ratio LTg/BTg: 2.01. Hind wings: base red; disc dark olivaceous green; membrane and sutural third dark brown-black; veinlets bluegreen on disc and white-green on brown-black parts (Fig. 9 A); ventrally, a narrow band of white wax between disc and membrane (Fig. 9 B). Legs: entirely red; anterior femora very slightly inflated apically; hind tibiae with 5 lateral spines, basal one big and sharp, and 7 apical spines (Fig. 9 B). Abdomen: yellow-orange with external genitalia red (Figs. 9 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 138-139, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/6507525</em></strong>