Metaurus, Stal, 1866

Song, Zhi-Shun & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the Oriental genus Metaurus Stål (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae), with description of a new species, Journal of Natural History 46 (41 - 42), pp. 2563-2575 : 2573-2574

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2012.708456
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/202E4201-FFE3-1149-FDFD-FC5BFBD777F7
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Metaurus
status

Treatment

Metaurus View in CoL indet. sp.

( Figure 1E, I View Figure 1 )

Description

Body length (from apex of cephalic process to tip of forewings): 16.3 mm; length of head (including two portions: the former is from apex of cephalic process to curved point, the latter is from curved point to posterior margin of eyes): (1.4 + 1.0) mm; width of head (including eyes): 1.8 mm; length of forewings: 13.1 mm.

General colour greenish ochraceous, apical part of cephalic process, a longitudinal spot before eyes on genae, a small anterior spot on lower lateral carina behind eyes on pronotum, apex of hind femora and base of hind tibiae black and shining.

Cephalic process in front of eyes strongly upturned (ascending at about 45 ◦), distinctly longer than length from curved point to posterior margin of eyes, with ratio about 1.4: 1 in lateral view ( Figure 1I View Figure 1 ). Hind tarsomeres I with 18 and tarsomeres II with 16 apical spines, respectively.

Material examined

THAILAND: sex unknown (abdomen missing), 10 miles (16 km) north of Saraburi, 100 m, 21 July 1962, E. S. Ross and D. Q. Cavagnaro ( CAS) .

Remarks

The specimen can be easily distinguished from the other two Metaurus species by the distinctly longer cephalic process in front of eyes, longer than length from curved point to posterior margin of eyes, with the ratio about 1.4: 1 in lateral view. Unfortunately, its abdomen was missing so that the specific status is unknown.

Distribution

Thailand.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the following individuals and institutions for loans of specimens or access to collections: Gunvi Lindberg ( NHRS), Davis J. Preston and Scott E. Miller ( BPBM), Norman D. Penny ( CAS). We also wish to thank Dr Andrew Polaszek, Entomology Department, Natural History Museum, London, UK, for his very kind editorial help with this paper. Three anonymous reviewers are greatly appreciated for their efforts in improving this paper.

The work on which this paper is based was supported by the following sources: National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31101657, 30970400, 31172128), Scientific Survey on the Middle- and Lower-reaches of Lancang (Mekong) River and Grand Shangri-La Area (No. 2008FY110300), National Science Fund for Fostering Talents in Basic Research (Special subjects in animal taxonomy, NSFC-J 0630964 / J0109) and a grant (No. O529YX5105) from the Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution of Chinese Academy of Sciences.