Makilingia frontalis Baker, 1924

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 483

Makilingia frontalis Baker

( Figs 1 L–M, 4Z–DD, 8D, 9G–H)

Makilingia frontalis Baker, 1924: 69 . Fig. 15

Male genitalia. Pygofer with ventral appendage elongate, narrow basally broadened and bent dorsad beyond margin of lobe, apex tapered and extended beyond lobe by more than half length of lobe. Subgenital plate relatively long, basal sclerotized section relatively short and narrow, distal lobe long and broad, curved slightly dorsad and compressed, dorsal callosity relatively small. Style with preapical lobe broad, angulate, distinctly angulate preapical heel present. Aedeagus with preatrium nearly as long as shaft, in lateral view bent at right angle, shaft compressed, broad in lateral view, apex irregularly rounded; in posterior view with preatrium narrow and slightly constricted medially, atrium with pair of large irregularly rounded lateral denticulate flanges, shaft nearly parallelsided to rounded apex.

Female. Sternite VII nearly twice as wide as long, posterior margin with pair of narrow acute projections flanking shorter rounded medial lobe. Second valvulae with dorsal margin nearly straight through most of length, somewhat broadened near apex and obliquely truncate, teeth prominent, numerous, rounded and somewhat irregularly spaced.

Material examined. Lectotype male, here designated, labeled: " Davao / Mindanao / Baker ; Cotype / U.S. N.M.; LECTOTYPE / Makilingia / frontalis Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019; USNMENT / 01513296". 2 female paralectotypes, first two labels with same data, additionally labeled “ PARALECTOTYPE / Makilingia / frontalis Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019”; each with a USNMENT barcode label numbered 0 1513297 thru 01513298; 1 additionally labeled “20442" ( USNM).

Notes. A male cotype from Baker's type series in the USNM is here designated lectotype to fix the identity of the species. This species resembles M. costalis in having the dorsum uniformly black except for the pale costal margin of the forewing but differs in having the texture of the face between the punctures glabrous rather than shagreen.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Makilingia spp., dorsal and lateral habitus: A–B, Makilingia banahaoensis, male; C, M. banahaoensis, female; D– E, M. colorata lectotype male; F–G, M. costalis, holotype male; H–I, M. davaoensis, holotype male; J–K, M. flavifrons, male; L–M, M. frontalis, lectotype male; N–O, M. haightiana lectotype male; P–Q, M. intermedia (lectotype male of M. variabilis); R–S, M. lineata holotype female; T–U, M. lobata, holotype male; V–W, M. maculamima, holotype male; X–Y, M. maculata, lectotype male; Z–AA, M. nigra lectotype male; BB–CC, M. nigramima holotype male; DD–EE, M. pallida, lectotype male; FF, M. pallida (cotype of M. pallida benguetensis Baker), female; GG–HH, M. panayensis, holotype female; II–JJ, M. panayensis, male; Scale bars: 1 mm.