Flata stellaris ( Walker, 1851 )

Peng, Ling-Fei, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2012, Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 3399, pp. 1-22 : 16

8. Flata stellaris ( Walker, 1851)

( Fig. 1 D)

Cicada ocellata Fabricius, 1775: 682 , preoccupied by Cicada ocellata De Geer, 1773 Flata ocellata ( Fabricius), Fabricius, 1798 : 517

Poeciloptera stellaris Walker, 1851: 453

Poeciloptera argiolus Stål, 1855: 191 , synonymised by Stål, 1862: 489 Flata stellaris (Walker) , Kirby, 1891: 155

Cryptoflata flavoguttata Melichar, 1902: 21 , synonymised by Medler, 2006: 240 Flata ocellata (Fabricius) , Distant, 1906, fig. 225

Cryptoflata flavoguttata Melichar, 1902: 21 , synonymised by Melichar, 1923: 41 Flata stellaris var. flavoguttata (Melichar) , Metcalf, 1957: 177

Type. Holotype of P. stellaris (not examined), no abdomen, Africa (no locality) ( BMNH). Holotype of P. argiolus (not examined), no abdomen, no locality ( NHRS). Lectotype of C. flavoguttata Ƥ, (not examined), designated by Medler, 1986a: 48, Sri Lanka ( ZMHB).

This species was not examined by the authors. The following description is from Distant (1906).

“Body and legs pale ochraceous or greenish-ochraceous, the pronotum and mesonotum sometimes not concolorous; tegmina very pale virescent, veins a little darker, interspersed with small dull sanguineous spots, extreme edges of costal and posterior margins pale ochraceous; wings creamy-white; tegmina with the clavus somewhat coarsely granulose, the costal membrane slightly cretaceously tomentose, the apical margin a little sinuate before posterior angle. Length excludes tegmina 8 mm; tegmina spread 23 mm ”.

The male genitalia of a plesiotype ( Fig. 1 D) is reproduced from Medler (2006).

Distribution. India; Indonesia; Sri Lanka.

No Remarks.

Figures

FIGURE 1. A. Flata coromandelica (Spinola), adult, after Melichar (1902); B. Flata ferrugata Fabricius, male genitalia, left lateral view; C. Flata guttularis (Walker), male genitalia, left lateral view, after Medler (1990); D. Flata stellaris (Walker), male genitalia, left lateral view, after Medler (2006). (a: obtuse projection; b: cephalad process of phallobase; c: hook-like process of phallobase; d: toothed process of theca; e: straight process of theca)