Paurocephala sauteri (Enderlein)

Mifsud, D. & Burckhardt, D., 2002, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea), Journal of Natural History 36 (16), pp. 1887-1986 : 1972-1973

Paurocephala sauteri (Enderlein)

(gures 22B, 23G, 24J, 25G, 26G, 28G)

Agonoscena sauteri Enderlein, 1914: 234 . Lectotype, examined, by present designation. Paurocephal a sauteri (Enderlein) ; Crawford, 1917: 34.

Paurocephal a (Agonoscena) sauteri Enderlein ; Kuwayama, 1922: 368.

Paurocephala debregeasiae Yang and Li, 1987 , holotype, examined. Syn. n.

Description. Species of the psylloptera type.

Adult: head brown, yellow towards lateral and median ocelli; vertex covered by short setae. Clypeus brown. Antenna brown, segments 1–3 yellow; segment 9 with a long seta in basal quarter. Thorax entirely brown with yellow markings along body axis and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally. Metascutellar horn large, pointed apically. Forewing including pterostigma transparent; veins brown. Forewing with inconspicuous setae on veins (vein Rs with 10–15 setae); Rs vein marginally curved in apical third. Surface spinules absent or con ned to cells in apical half of forewing; radular spinules present in m2, reduced in cu1. Legs yellow to brown, tarsal segments darker. Meracanthus long, laterally curved, pointed apically. Abdominal tergites yellow to light brown, sternites white to light brown, genitalia brown. Male paramere long and almost straight posteriorly, widest in the middle, pointed apically, few short setae posteriorly visible from lateral view; inner surface with two hooks apically, one to three stout setae basally. Measurements and ratios as in table 2A–C.

Fifth instar larva: no material was available for study. The description of P. psylloptera by Yang (1984) concerns P. sauteri .

Host plants. Morus alba L. ( Moraceae ). The records from Celtis tetrandra sinensis (Pers.) Y. C. Tang (Ulmaceae) and from Debregeasia longifolia (Burm. f.) Wedd. ( Urticaceae ) cannot be con rmed since no larvae were reported.

Distribution. China ( Yang and Li, 1987), Taiwan ( Enderlein, 1914; Yang et al., 1986) and Thailand.

Material examined. Taiwan: Lectotype, July 1912 (H. Sauter); 4, 5, Nantou, Chushan, 19 June 1978, Morus alba (C. T. Yang) . China: Holotype (of P. debregeasiae ) and 5 paratypes, Yunnan, Xishuang-banna, Jinghong, 4 April 1981, Debregeasia longifolia . Thailand: 4, 5, Bangkok, 1962, Morus sp. (B. Meksongsee) (BAUC, DEIC, NCHU).

Comments. Yang et al. (1986) demonstrated that P. sauteri is morphologically, ethologically and biologically distinct from P. psylloptera Crawford. To x the name sauteri a lectotype is selected here. No larval material was available for examination.