Telogmometopius sarawakensis, Liang & Jiang & Webb, 2006

Liang, Ai-Ping, Jiang, Guo-Mei & Webb, M. D., 2006, Revision of the Oriental spittlebug genera Baibarana Matsumura and Telogmometopius Jacobi (Hemiptera: Cercopidae: Rhinaulacini), Journal of Natural History 40 (35 - 37), pp. 2071-2099 : 2097-2098

Telogmometopius sarawakensis sp. nov.

( Figures 38, 39 , 104–108 )

Description

Length: „ 5.0–5.4 mm.

Colour as in angulatus (see above) but frons with upper margin fuscous in ventral view and fore wings with a very indistinct, narrow, obliquely transverse, pale white fascia before mid-length and apical area dark brown or fuscous.

Postclypeus with medial keel very sharp

Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 104–106 ) caliper-like, overlaid apically with expanded basal part elongate and apical process robust and abruptly differentiated from apical part. Lateral plates ( Figures 105, 107 ) very narrow and slender in lateral view. Style as in Figure 108 . Aedeagal shaft ( Figure 105 ) relatively short and robust with a filamentous process arising subapically from dorsal margin, directed anterodorsally then curved posteroventrally with apical part directed anteroventrally.

Female: unknown.

Material examined

Holotype: „, [ Malaysia]: Sarawak: Gunong Mulu , Nat. Park Mulu, Mulu, camp 4, 1780 m, January 1978, lower montane forest, J. D. Holloway RGS Mulu exped., B. M. 1978–206 ( BMNH) . Paratypes: [ Malaysia]: Sarawak: 4 „„, Gunong Mulu , Nat. Park Mulu, Mulu, camp 4, 1780 m, January 1978, lower montane forest, [underside] J. D. Holloway RGS Mulu exped., B. M. 1978–206 ( BMNH) .

Distribution

Malaysia ( Sarawak).

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by the caliper-like subgenital plates and looped apical filamentous process of the aedeagus.

Figures

Figures 25–39. Baibarana and Telogmometopius species, dorsal habitus. (25) B. bicolor, holotype „. (26) B. longispina sp. nov., paratype „, Laos. (27) B. rufofasciata, paratype ♀, Vietnam: Fyan. (28) B. sinuata sp. nov., holotype „. (29) B. uchidai, ♀, Taiwan: Taichung. (30) T. angulatus, paratype ♀, northern Borneo: Mt Kinabalu. (31) T. bicarinatus, paratype ♀. (32) T. bifaciatus, holotype „. (33) T. rangoonensis sp. nov., holotype „. (34) T. carinilabratus, ♀, China: Tibet. (35) T. himalayensis, holotype „. (36) T. obsoletus, „, China: Hubei. (37) T. sabahensis, paratype ♀. (38, 39) T. sarawakensis sp. nov., holotype „ and paratype ♀, respectively.

Figures 94–108. Telogmometopius species, male genitalia, left lateral view except where indicated. (94–97) T. sabahensis: (94) subgenital plates, ventral view; (95) left subgenital plates, ventrolateral view; (96) genital style; (97) aedeagus. (98–103) T. obsoletus: (98) male genital capsule, ventral view; (99) male genital capsule; (100) subgenital plate, ventrolateral view; (101) lateral plate; (102) genital style; (103) aedeagus. (104–108) T. sarawakensis: (104) male genital capsule, ventral view; (105) male genital capsule; (106) subgenital plate, ventrolateral view; (107) lateral plate; (108) genital style.