Delphacodes guam.ensis

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 : 111-112

8. Delphacodes guam.ensis ,new species ( fig. 4 , a,..c).

Crown slightly longer than broad, nearly quadrate; face elongate; the lateral margins nearly parallel; carinae of the head distinct; the second segment of the antennae elongate, expanded apically.

Pygofer rather large; anal angles strongly produced and rounded; anal segment short, with slender recurved anal spines; genital styles short and broad, almost bifurcate, with the inner and outer angles strongly produced.

General color brownish. Vertex and pronotum pale ochraceous buff; carinae of head, antennae and legs ochraceous buff; tegmina subhyaline, faintly milky with a faint brownish cloud at the apex of the clavus; veins concolorous.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 2.7 mm.

Holotype male, Upi Trail , May 5, on grass, Swezey .

This species resembles Delphacodes pacifica Crawford from California perhaps more closely than any other species. It is, however, sufficiently distinct

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FIGURE 4.-Delphacodes guamensis: a, dorsal view of head and thorax; b, ventral view of male genitalia; c, frontal view.