Kuchingella gigantea (Distant)

Wei, Cong & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, On the identity of Chunra gigantea Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), the largest member of the arboreal leafhopper subfamily Idiocerinae, Zootaxa 2674, pp. 26-32 : 31

Kuchingella gigantea (Distant)

( Figs 1 –33)

Chunra gigantea Distant, 1908: 136 , plate VII, fig. 11, 11a

Description. Body length: male, 11.2 mm; female, 9.8 mm. Apex of anteclypeus blackish brown ( Figs 3 ); eye brown (in male) or reddish brown (in female). Pronotum and scutellum with large blackish brown patches ( Fig. 2 ).

Male pygofer in lateral view (Fig. 24) with dorsoposterior corner acute and ventroposterior corner produced into an upturned process. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 29, 30) compressed dorsoventrally, abruptly tapered to digitate apex in lateral view; distally tapered to narrow concave apex in ventral view, with lateral margins slightly incurved at midlength,.

Other characters are as described for the genus.

Material examined: Malaysia: 1Ψ lectotype (here designated), Borneo, Kuching, 25-March-1902; 1Ψ paralectotype same data; 1ɗ, Sarawak, Gunong Mulu National Park, Feburary, 150 m, J.D. Holloway ( BMNH).

Remarks. This species was originally described from an unspecified number of female specimens with original data “Borneo, Kuching (Shelford); S.-E. Province (Doherty)”, of which two female syntypes are deposited in BMNH labeled “Kuching Mar. 25 1902 ”. One of these specimens, bearing Distant’s determination label and “Distant Coll. 1911-383”, and with wings spread as in Distant’s figure, is designated as lectotype. The male of this species is described here for the first time.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Kuchingella gigantea 1, male habitus, lateral view; 2, male habitus, dorsal view; 3, male face; 4, first valvula; 5, enlarged apex of first valvula; 6, second valvula; 7, enlarged apex of second valvula; 8, apex of third valvula.