Champaka Distant, 1905

Lee, Young June, 2010, Cicadas (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of Mindanao, Philippines, with the description of a new genus and a new species, Zootaxa 2351, pp. 14-28 : 24-25

Genus Champaka Distant, 1905 stat. rev.

Champaka Distant, 1905a:70 . Type species: Pomponia viridimaculata Distant, 1889 .

Remarks. Distant (1905a) erected the genus Champaka for Pomponia viridimaculata , which has a very wide head, considerably long male abdomen, and very short male operculum. Duffels (1991a) revised this genus with two member species: Champaka viridimaculata (Distant, 1889) and Champaka celebensis Distant, 1913 . Beuk (1999) synonymized Champaka with Platylomia Stål, 1870 and placed C. viridimaculata and C. celebensis in the Platylomia spinosa species group together with other seven species. Lee (2009a) described two new species of the P. spinosa group from Luzon, Philippines, bringing the total number of the species in the group to eleven.

However, the species of the P. spinosa group are not congeneric with Platylomia flavida (Guérin- Méneville, 1834), the type species of Platylomia , because they differ as follows: uncus with a ridge-like structure at medial part where bases of uncal lobes meet; opercula widely apart from each other; abdominal tergite 2 including timbal covers about as wide as tergite 3 (in P. flavida , timbal covers prominent laterally); tergite 7 without a distinct bent demarcation between dorsal and ventral parts of tergite 7; ovipositor protruding substantially or slightly beyond dorsal beak. (See also Beuk (1999) for the diagnostic characters for the P. spinosa group.) The paraphyly between the P. spinosa group and the relatives of P. flavida was confirmed by a morphological phylogenetic analysis by Beuk (2002).

Here the genus Champaka is resurrected from junior synonymy with Platylomia to include the eleven species previously placed in the P. spinosa group: C. spinosa (Fabricius, 1787) comb. nov., C. abdulla (Distant, 1881) comb. nov., C. viridimaculata (Distant, 1889) comb. nov., C. nigra (Distant, 1888) comb. nov., C. virescens (Distant, 1905) comb. nov., C. meyeri (Distant, 1883) comb. nov., C. wallacei (Beuk, 1999) comb. nov., C. celebensis Distant, 1913 comb. nov., C. aerata (Distant, 1888) comb. nov., C. constanti (Lee, 2009) comb. nov., and C. maxima (Lee, 2009) comb. nov. A key to the former nine species was provided by Beuk (1999), and diagnostic descriptions of the latter two species were provided by Lee (2009a).