Pyrrhoneura bivittata, Metcalf, Z. P., 1946

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 113-114

2. Pyrrhoneura bivittata , new species ( fig. 5 , a-f).

Vertex triangular, projecting distinctly in front of eyes, nearly as broad as long; the lateral margins strongly elevated, nearly meeting on the apex of the head, with a double row of small pustules. Frons elongate, nearly four times as long as the width between the compound eyes; lateral margins nearly parallel to clypeal border and then suddenly flaring, with a single row of small pustules; median carina indistinct. First segment of antennae short; second nearly seven times as long as first, reaching to the middle of the compound eyes; strongly pustulate. Pronotum short, deeply incised posteriorly, strongly flared; mesonotum large, ecarinate.

Geriital plates of male elongate, narrow; apex produced into a broad triangular tooth which is directed dorsad; anal segment elongate, about as long as the genital plate.

General color of the body including the legs ochraceous yellow with a lateral blackish fuscous vitta; tegmina milky subhyaline; wings milky subhyaline; veins concolorous.

Length: to apex of abdomen, 2.9 mm.; to apex of tegmina, 5 mm.

Holotype male, Yigo, Nov. 13, on Cacao, Swezey ; allotype female, Dededo, Sept. 7, on Guettarda, Swezey ; paratype, one female, Dededo, Sept. 7, on Ficus tinctoria (hodda), Swezey .

This species may be readily recognized bythe blackish fuscous fasciaacross the base of the frons which is continued across the lateral margins of the head and thorax as a blackish fuscous vitta and to the apex of the tegmina as a broad pale fuscous vitta.

Figures

FIGuru; 5.-Pyrrltoneura bivittata: a, tegmen; b, hind wing; c, lateral view of male genitalia; d, ventral view of male genitalia; e, dorsal view of head and thorax; f, frontal view.