Calophya scrobicola, Burckhardt & Basset, 2000

Burckhardt, D. & Basset, Y., 2000, The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) associated with Schinus (Anacardiaceae): systematics, biogeography and host plant relationships, Journal of Natural History 34 (1), pp. 57-155 : 122-123

Calophya scrobicola sp. n.

(®gures 9F, H±K, 21)

Description. Adult. Coloration. Head and body green or yellow. Antennal ¯agellum dark brown. Genal processes yellow. Vertex and thoracic dorsum with brown pattern. Apical tarsal segments brown. Forewings yellowish, transparent, veins of similar colour as membrane. Dark colour in young specimens reduced.

Structure. Anterior portion of vertex covered in short setae which are about as long as distance between them; genal processes long, slender, contiguous in the middle. Forewings (®gure 9F) oval, widest in apical third, evenly rounded apically; surface spinules absent apart from base of cell cu 2. Genitalia as in ®gure 9H±K.

Male subgenital plate short; proctiger relatively slender, curved posteriorly; paramere lamellar, relatively slender, obliquely truncate apically; distal portion of aedeagus weakly curved, with large apical dilatation. Female proctiger with long pointed apical process; subgenital plate with long, subacute apical processes.

Measurements in mm (3, l 2 m). HW 0.42±0.49; AL 0.34±0.46; WL 1.36±1.62; MP 0.15±0.15; PL 0.10±0.13; AA 0.13±0.16; FP 0.34±0.36; VL/GL 0.94±1.45; AL/F1 2.27±2.71; AL/HW 0.76±0.98; WL/HW 3.08±3.45; WL/WW 2.09±2.19; a/b

1.33±1.60; c/d 0.69±0.83; TL/HW 0.61±0.74; MP/HW 0.31±0.33; AB/AA 0.88±1.07;

FP/HW 0.69±0.77; FP/SL 1.03±1.16; FP/CL 3.00±3.40; FP/FA 2.13±2.40.

Fifth instar larva (®gure 21). Yellow with very slightly darker dorsal sclerites. Anterior margin of head forming two large lobes. Antennae S-shaped, bearing sectasetae. Legs with claws. Anterior margin of humeral lobes level with the middle of eye margin. Base of wing buds and abdomen with rows of dorsal horns. Caudal plate ratio 0.55. Circumanal ring oval. Head, wing bud and abdominal margins with sectasetae.

Host plant, gall and biology. Schinus polygamus . In pit galls on the leaves.

D istribution . Chile (VI±VIII Regions).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, l Chile: VIII Region , Province Concepcio  n, Escuadron, 20 km S Concepcio  n, 20 m, 17.i.1996, Schinus polygamus (D. Burckhardt) , dry mounted ( MHNG).

PARATYPES. Chile: VI Region , 2 m, Province Colchagua, La Ru ®na, RõÂo Tinguiririca, 650 m, 11.i.1996, Schinus polygamus (D. Burckhardt) ; VII Region , 1 m, 1 exuvia, Province Cauquenes, 10 km W Cauquenes, 400 m, 12.ii.1996, Schinus

polygamus (D. Burckhardt); VIII Region , 25, l 10 m , same data as holotype; 4, l 3 m, 4 larvae , same data but 15 km S Concepcio  n, 36ss56¾S 73ss09¾W, 50 m, 10.xii.1992 ;

3, l 6 m, same data but Province Nuble Ä, near Recinto, ca 60 km E Chillan, 400±

600 m, 12.xii.1990, Valdivian forest (D. Agosti and D. Burckhardt); 1, l 5 m, same

data but 20 km on Road Cabrero to Yungay, 300 m, 18.i.1996 (D. Burckhardt); 2, l 2 m, Province BiobõÂo, Laguna del Laja National Park, sector Lagunillas, 1100 m, 21.i.1996, Schinus polygamus (D. Burckhardt) ; 1, l 1 m, Laguna del Laja National

Park, 19.i.1985, Schinus sp. (D. Hollis) . Dry and slide mounted and preserved in alcohol ( BMNH, MHNG, MHNS, NHMB) .

Material not included in type series. Chile: VIII Region , pit galls on leaves, Province Concepcio  n, Escuadron, 15 km S Concepcio  n, 36ss56¾S 73ss09¾W, 50 m, 10.xii.1992, Schinus polygamus (D. Burckhardt) ; pit galls on leaves, Province Nuble Ä ,

20 km on Road Cabrero to Yungay, 300 m, 18.i.1996, Schinus polygamus

(D. Burckhardt); pit galls on leaves, near Recinto, ca 60 km E Chillan, 400±600 m, 12.xii.1990, Valdivian forest (D. Agosti and D. Burckhardt). Dry mounted and

preserved in alcohol (MHNG).