Saccharodite modesta Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 132

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E68799-FF60-FF16-F3C2-FEB12DBC724D

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Saccharodite modesta Zelazny
status

sp. nov.

Saccharodite modesta Zelazny View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Fig. 273)

Description. Forewings 1.9 times longer than wide, length: male 3.0– 4.4 mm (mean = 3.6, n = 17), female 3.6–4.5 mm (mean = 4.0, n = 14). Colour white to stramineous; abdomen faintly tinted with orange. Some specimens (but not holotype) with faint red marks in front of eyes and at sides of pronotum, next to hind margin. Forewings lightly powdered; very faintly infuscated from apex of Cu to base of Ms1, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; veins colourless to stramineous; a short section of costal margin adjoining last subcostal sector orange-red (in some specimens faint); base of Sc+R with 3 dark spots. Hindwings colourless. In profile junction of vertex and face rounded; subantennal processes not connected to margins of facial carinae; rostrum surpassing post trochanter. Forewings with Sc+R fork slightly before middle of wing; basal median cell slightly wider than basal cell between Sc+R and M; a triangle at base of Ms1 (in some specimens missing). Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles oval; proximal dorsal process short and slender; distal dorsal process elongated. Apical part of aedeagus short, its left side extending into a membranous, terminal lobe.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective (modestus, -a, -um = moderate).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.6 mm), PAPUA NEW GUINEA; labels: 1) NE NEW GUINEA: / Wau , Hospital Ck. / 1130 m, 3.IV.1965 2) J. Sedlacek / Malaise Trap / BISHOP MUS. ( BPBM) . Paratypes. INDO- NESIA: PAPUA: Waris, S. of Hollandia, 450–500 m, 27–30.VII.1959, 16–23.VIII.1959 , 2 ♀ (fw. 3.6, 3.7) , T. C. Maa; 1 ♂ (fw. 3.8), light trap, J.L. Gressitt; Wisselmeren, 1530 m, Urapura, Kamo Val. , 10.VIII.1955 , 1 ♀, Gressitt (all BPBM); Star Range, Sibil , Tenma Sigin , and Bivak 39A, 1260, 1800, 1500 m, 10,13,22 . V., 6,8,12. VI., 4. VII.1959 , 3 ♂ (fw. 2x3.1, 3.5) 5 ♀ (fw. 3.6, 4.0, 4.3, 4.5), Neth. New Guinea Exp. ( RMNH); PAPUA NEW GUINEA: NE: W. Highlands, Korn Farm , 1560 m, 19.X.1958 , 2 ♂ (fw. 3.3, 3.9), 2 ♀ (fw. 3.9, 4.0), Gressitt; Goiburung, E. of Korn Farm , 1560–1650 m, 16.X.1958 , 1 ♂ (fw. 3.4), Alpinia , Gressitt ; Mt. Hagen area , 1650 m, 28. VI.1957, 1 ♀ (fw. 3.8), D. Elmo Hardy; Aiyura , 1550, 1600 m, 18.V.1966, 9.VI.1966 , 3 ♂ (fw. 2x3.3, 3.9), Malaise trap, Gressitt; Mt. Flora , 6°45'S 146° E, 1900 m, 12. GoogleMaps GoogleMaps VI.1966, 1 ♀, Gressitt; Mt. Otto , 2200 m, 24. VI.1955, 1 ♂ (fw. 4.4) 1 ♀ (fw. 4.5), Gressitt; Wau , Morobe Distr., 1200 m, 17.VI.1961, 15–24.XI.1961 , 2 ♂ (fw. 3.7, 3.8), J. Sedlacek, Gressitt; Swart Val. , Karubaka , 1400 m, 21.XI.1958 , 1 ♀ (fw. 3.7), Gressitt ; Sepik-Waghi div., N. of Banz , 1900 m, 11. VII.1955, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.6), Gressitt ; Karap, N. of Jimmi Waghi div., 1550 m, 20. VII.1955, 1 ♀ (fw. 4.1), light trap, Gressitt ; nr. Busu Riv. , NE of Lae , Sangeman Vill. , 25 m, 30.VIII.1957 , 1 ♂ (fw. 3.0), light trap, Elmo Hardy ; PAPUA NEW GUINEA: S. Highlands, Dimifa , SE of Mt. Giluwe, 2200 m, 10.X.1958 , SE: Betege , 20 km NW of Koroba , 1600 m, 21.IX.1963 , 1 ♀ (fw. 4.2), light trap , R. Straatman ; PAPUA: S. Highlands, Mendi, 1660 m, 13.X.1958 , 1 ♀ (fw. 4.3), Gressitt; N. of Mendi , 1800 m, 8.X.1958 , 1 ♂ (fw. 4.2), Gressitt (all BPBM) .

Distribution. New Guinea.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite modesta resembles closely Sa. nervosa sp. nov., also from New Guinea. However, it has lighter forewing infuscation and veins, as well as an orange-red section on the costa. It can be distinguished from Sa. basipunctulata (Melichar) , which also occurs in New Guinea, by its larger size, the last subcostal sector in the forewings being uncoloured, and by the triangle at the base of Ms1.

NEW

University of Newcastle

BPBM

Bishop Museum

T

Tavera, Department of Geology and Geophysics

V

Royal British Columbia Museum - Herbarium

VI

Mykotektet, National Veterinary Institute

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

R

Departamento de Geologia, Universidad de Chile

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Derbidae

Genus

Saccharodite

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