Makilingia flavifrons Melichar, 1923

Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zahniser, James N., 2019, Review of the leafhopper genus Makilingia Baker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Mileewinae), Zootaxa 4559 (3), pp. 473-500 : 481-482

Makilingia flavifrons Melichar

( Figs 1 J–K, 4U–Y, 8C, 9E–F)

Makilingia flavifrons Melichar, 1923: 119

Makilingia bimaculata Baker 1924: 67 , Fig. 12

Description from Melichar (1923; translated from the original German): Crown as long as distance between bases of eyes, anterior margin with two triangular orange-red marks not reaching eyes and with inner corners extended to ocelli, face yellow, antennae and legs yellow.

Male genitalia (based on lectotype of M. bimaculata Baker ). Pygofer appendage short, slender, not extended beyond lobe. Subgenital plate with sclerotized basal portion broadly and evenly rounded laterally, distal unsclerotized portion very short, broad and compressed, not extended posterad, dorsal callosity prominent, bilobed. Style without preapical lobe, apex with heel area broadened and angulate. Aedeagus with preatrium as long as shaft; in lateral view with shaft posterior margin forming obtuse angle with preatrium, shaft approximately parallelsided through most of length, curved slightly dorsad with pair of triangular preapical processes extended anterad; in posterior view with preatrium constricted medially, atrium diamond shaped without processes, shaft expanded distally with lateral preapical processes retrorse.

Female. Sternite VII less than twice as wide as long, posterior margin with trapezoidal emargination. Second valvulae relatively slender, dorsal margin nearly straight, teeth short, obliquely conical and widely spaced.

Material examined. Lectotype male, M. bimaculata Baker , here designated, labeled: "Imugin/ N. Viscaya / Baker; Cotype No./ U.S. N.M.; LECTOTYPE / Makilingia / bimaculata Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019; USNMENT / 01513159"; 11 male and 7 female paralectotypes with same first two labels as lectotype, 1 female additionally labeled “20433”, 1 female additionally labeled “ 30-5-73 C”; 4 male and 1 female paralectotypes labeled: " Baguio / Benguet / Baker ; Cotype No./ U.S. N.M."; 4 male paralectotype labeled “ Dapitan / Mindanao / Baker; Cotype No./ U.S. N.M”; each paralectotype labeled “ PARALECTOTYPE / Makilingia / bimaculata Baker / des. CH Dietrich / & JN Zahniser 2019”; each paralectotype with USNMENT barcode label numbered 0 1513250 thru 0 1513276 ( USNM).

Notes. The lectotype of M. flavifrons Melichar , designated by Young & Lauterer (1966), was not examined but, according to Young's unpublished notes, he accepted Baker's (1925) synonymy of M. bimaculata with M. flavifrons , and this interpretation is followed here. A co-type from Baker's collection is here designated lectotype for M. bimaculata Baker to fix the identity of the taxon.

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.