Maculergithus luteomaculatus ( Constant & Pham, 2016 )

Constant, Jérôme & Pham, Hong Thai, 2024, Sixteen issid planthopper species in one day in Dong Son-Ky Thuong Nature Reserve in North Vietnam: Eight new species, one new genus and additional new records (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Issidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 919 (1), pp. 1-87 : 25-26

Maculergithus luteomaculatus ( Constant & Pham, 2016)

Fig. 2G

Gergithus (Maculergithus) luteomaculatus Constant & Pham, 2016: 6 (keyed, described), figs 2a–b, 3–4 (habitus, details, male terminalia).

Gnezdilovius luteomaculatus – Meng et al. 2017: 18 (transferred to Gnezdilovius Meng, Webb & Wang, 2017 ).

Maculergithus luteomaculatus – Gnezdilov 2017b: 1345 (transferred to Maculergithus ).

Diagnosis

Maculergithus luteomaculatus can be recognized by:

(1) the frons with a yellow spot along dorsal margin;

(2) the yellow vertex;

(3) the two yellow spots on tegmina along sutural margin;

(4) the tegmina with 8 yellow spots in total;

(5) the left ventrolateral lobe of periandrium laminate and projecting laterally with 3 pointed processes projecting anterolaterally, the median one more developed, and another, more posterior pointed process projecting laterally.

Material examined

VIETNAM • 2 ♀♀; Quang Ninh Province, Dong Son-Ky Thuong Nature Reserve ; 21°08′29″ N, 107°04′53″ E; 27 Aug. 2022; 550 m a.s.l.; secondary forest; GTI Project; J. Constant, J. Bresseel and L. Semeraro leg.; I.G.: 34.518; RBINS • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; VNMN .

Note

This represents the first record of the species outside its type locality in Tam Dao National Park, and the first record from Quang Ninh Province.

Figures

Fig. 2. Issidae Spinola, 1839 in nature in Dong Son-Ky Thuong Nature Reserve. A. Kodaianella mua sp. nov. B. Longieusarima lunulia Wang, Bourgoin & Zhang, 2017. C–D. Rostrolatum curviceps sp. nov. E. Fortunia sp., nymph. F. Hemisphaerius bresseeli sp. nov. G. Maculergithus luteomaculatus (Constant & Pham, 2016). H. Neogergithoides scapularis sp. nov.