Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker)

Xue, Qingquan, Mckamey, Stuart H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, Taxonomic revision of the Malaysian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of new taxa, Zootaxa 4226 (3), pp. 405-428 : 415

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scientific name	Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker)
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Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) View in CoL

( Figs. 6 View FIGURE 6 , 14 View FIGURE 14 )

Bythoscopus cephalotes Walker, 1857: 174 View in CoL .

Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) View in CoL ; Ghauri, 1985a: 44, figs. 1–15.

Material examined. 10♂♂ 5 ♀♀, Malaysia, Sandakan, coll. Baker ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is sexually dimorphic in color, with males having dark brown markings on the lora and lateral margin of the frontoclypeus and anteclypeus; females have the face uniformly yellowish. Males also have the anteclypeus distinctly swollen and much broader compared to that of the female.

References

Ghauri, M. S. K. (1985 a) Namiocerus - a new genus for Bythoscopus cephalotes Walker, 1857 (Homoptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae). Reichenbachia, 23 (1), 41 - 46.

Walker, F. (1857) Catalogue of the Homopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo, by Mr. A. R. Wallace, with descriptions of new species. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, 1, 141 - 175.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) A, habitus of male, dorsal view; B, habitus of male, lateral view; C, head and thorax of male, dorsal view; D, face of male; E, head and thorax of female, dorsal view; F, face of female; G, habitus of female, dorsal view; H, habitus of female, lateral view; I, first valvulae; J, second valvulae; K, female genitalia, ventral view.

FIGURE 14. Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) A, male pygofer, anal tube and subgenital plate, lateral view; B, connective, ventral view; C, connective, lateral view; D, aedeagus, lateral view; E, aedeagus, ventral view; F, style, lateral view.