Ugyops samoaensis Muir

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 : 109

2. Ugyops samoaensis Muir ,

Haw. Ent. Soc., Proc. 4: 573, pl. 10, fig. 10 ,

1921. (See figure 3, a-d.)

Ugyops sulcata Muir, Austr. Mus., Rec. 18: 70, figs. 12-14, 1931.

There is, so far as I can see, no essential difference between these two species. U. samoa:ensis was described from Samoa and Savage Island [ Niue], and U. sulcata was described from the New Hebrides. This species, therefore, would seem to have a wide distribution in the Oceanic region. All the specimens have the tegmina short, barely covering the abdomen; in the male genitalia the ventral margin of the pygofer is produced in a broad flaplike tooth which is concave on the posterior margin; the genital styles are broadly curved inward with the acute apices approximate; the aedeagus is a simple, elongate, coiled tube.

Umatac , May 28, on milo; Fadian , Aug. 19, on Pemphis ; Agat , May 31, on milo, all Swezey; Piti , April 30, Usinger.

Figures

FIGURE 10.-Jamitettix guamensis: a, dorsal view of head and thorax; b, frontal view; c, ventral view of female genitalia; d, lateral view of male genitalia; e, ventral view of male genitalia.