Telogmometopius rangoonensis, 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 : 2096

Telogmometopius rangoonensis sp. nov.

( Figures 33 , 86–90 )

Description

Small species, length: „ 5.0 mm.

General colour pale stramineous; ocelli suffused with red; callous areas on posterior area of vertex and anterior area of pronotum pale brown; pronotum with posterior area pale brown; body ventrally ochraceous.

Postclypeus with median keel very sharp. Vertex with a faint, fine, median longitudinal carina.

Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 86–88 ) with expanded basal region moderately large and apical spine-like process elongate and fine, slightly longer than expanded basal region. Style as in Figure 90 . Aedeagal shaft ( Figure 87 ) relatively short and stout, with upper anteriorly directed part slightly arched in lateral view, apex expanded and slightly upturned, with an elongate, anterodorsally directed, sinuate, filamentous process arising from apical upper margin.

Female: unknown.

Material examined

Holotype: „, Burma: Churchill Rd , Rangoon, February 1927 (Miss Northup) ( USNM).

Distribution

Burma ( Myanmar).

Remarks

This species is similar to bifasciatus but has the subgenital plates tapering more abruptly and the aedeagal shaft shorter.

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 83–93. Telogmometopius species, male genitalia, left lateral view except where indicated. (83–85) T. bifasciatus: (83) male genital capsule; (84) subgenital plate, ventrolateral view; (85) aedeagus. (86–90) T. rangoonensis: (86) male genital capsule, ventral view; (87) male genital capsule; (88) subgenital plate, ventrolateral view; (89) lateral plate; (90) genital style. (91–93) T. angulatus: (91) male genital capsule, ventral view; (92) male genital capsule; (93) subgenital plate.