Pyrops condorinus
Creators: name: Jiaranaisakul, Kawin
name: Constant, Jerome
name: Pinkaew, Nantasak
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Fulgoridae
Pyrops
Pyrops condorinus

description: Pyrops condorinus (Lallemand, 1960)
(Figs 3, 16A)
= Fulgora spinolae condorina — Lallemand 1960: 7 [original description].
= Fulgora spinolae f. condorina — Lallemand 1963: 76 [keyed].
= Pyrops condorina — Nagai & Porion 1996: 24 [catalogued], 29 [taxonomic note], pl. 12, fig. 170 [type illustrated].
= Pyrops spinolae condorinus — Liang 1998: 45 [taxonomic note].
= Pyrops condorinus — Constant et al. 2016: 10 [recorded from Cambodia, taxonomy, plant association], fig. 3E [live specimen]; Constant & Pham 2022: 131 [catalogued], fig. 4 [type illustrated], fig. 5 [pale wing form illustration], 138 [keyed]; Jiaranaisakul et al. 2023: 5 [catalogued, redescribed], fig 1 A, C, E, G [compared to P. spinolae (Westwood, 1842)], figs 2-6 [illustration of habitus, male genitalia, live specimen, distribution map].
Diagnosis. (1) cephalic process strongly elongated and slender (Fig. 3C–D); (2) head black or greenish brown (fig. 3 D); (3) median carina of mesonotum yellowish orange (Fig. 3D); (4) tegmina slightly narrow, black with light green veins, yellow spots not fused into bands (Fig. 3A); (5) hind wings variable: orange, yellow or pale blue basally (Fig. 3A–B).
Mesurements and ratio. TL: ♁ (n = 5): 34.3 mm (32.4–35.6 mm); ♀ (n = 4): 37.9 mm (36.4—39.6 mm); TL+process: ♁ (n = 5): 48.8 mm (46.5–51.7 mm); ♀ (n = 4): 55.2 mm (53.8–55.8 mm); LTg/BTg = 3.02; BF/BPrH = 2.62; LPr/LF = 3.36; LPr/BPrH = 10.82.
Material examined. 1♁, 1♀: Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Mu Si District, 14°30’39.9”N 101°22’35.6”E; 24.IX.2019, K. Jiaranaisakul leg. KJ02-00058—KJ02-00059 (THNHM); 2♁♁; Nakhon Ratchasima, Mu Si District; 14°30’39.9”N 101°22’35.6”E, 31.VIII.2020, K. Jiaranaisakul leg., KJ02-00161—KJ02-00162 (THNHM); 2 ♁♁, 3 ♀♀: Chonburi Province, Chanta Ten Waterfall, 7.VII.2022, K. Jiaranaisakul leg., KJ02-00301, KJ02- 00303—KJ02-00306 (RBMF).
Material examined from iNaturalist.
Chonburi Province: Si Racha Dist., 13°15’00.0”N 101°03’00.0”E, 5 specimens: 2 ex., 7.VII.2022, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 7.VII.2022, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 17.VI.2023, andaman; 1 ex., 27.VIII.2023, benjamynweil.
Nakhon Ratchasima Province: Khon Buri Dist., 14°34’00.0”N 102°09’00.0”E, 1 specimen; 1 ex. 13.VII.2017, k_jiaranaisakul.
Sa Kaeo Province: Mueang Sa Kaeo Dist., 13°59’00.0”N 102°12’00.0”E, 7 specimens: 1 ex., 19.VII.2020, k_jiaranaisakul; 1 ex., 18.IX.2021, petereric; 1 ex., 10.VII.2022, kinbutterflies; 2 ex., 11.IX.2022, noppawan1; 2 ex., 10.VIII.2023, ppangtotori.
Distribution. Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam (Constant et al. 2016; Jiaranaisakul et al., 2023)
Notes. There are three plant associations recorded for P. condorinus: Sandoricum koetjape (Burm.f.) Merr. (Meliaceae) in Cambodia (Constant et al. 2016), Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Wight ex Arn. (Fabaceae) (new plant association) and an unidentified Meliaceae in Thailand (Jiaranaisakul et al., 2023).
description: Published as part of Jiaranaisakul, Kawin, Constant, Jerome & Pinkaew, Nantasak, 2024, Review of the lanternfly genus Pyrops of Thailand (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae) with notes and keys to species, pp. 47-79 in Zootaxa 5397 (1) on pages 55-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5397.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/10468319