Telogmometopius angulatus, 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 : 2089-2090

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930601059082
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/AE26A23B-BF3B-FFBE-FE25-FAC7FC10FBF2
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Telogmometopius angulatus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Telogmometopius angulatus View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figures 30 View Figures 25–39 , 91–93 View Figures 83–93 )

Description

Length: „ 5.2–5.4 mm, ♀ 5.3–5.6 mm.

Vertex, pronotum, and scutellum pale stramineous (possibly olivaceous yellow in live specimens); ocelli pale red; ocelli, callous areas on posterior area of vertex and anterior area of pronotum, posterior half of pronotum and middle area of scutellum usually with brown suffusion; head and thorax ventrally ochraceous, basal antennal segments, postclypeus laterally, fore- and mesothorax beneath and legs sometimes suffused with brown; fore wings grey brown, with an indistinct, oblique, pale white transverse fascia before middle, the costal area behind the pale white fascia fuscous, apical margin fuscous; abdomen dark brown, posterior margin ochraceous.

Postclypeus with medial keel very sharp.

Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 91–93 View Figures 83–93 ) with expanded basal region elongate and apical spine-like process short and robust, about half length of expanded basal region, directed dorsally at a nearly 90 ° angle in lateral view. Style as in Figure 92 View Figures 83–93 . Aedeagal shaft ( Figure 92 View Figures 83–93 ) laterally compressed, in lateral view relatively short and broad with a very fine, anterodorsally directed filamentous process, arising subapically from dorsal margin of an expanded membranous apex.

Material examined

Holotype: „, [ Malaysia] northern Borneo [Sabah]: 1 „, Ranau , 22–25 February 1959 ( T. C. Maa) ( BPBM) . Paratypes: [ Malaysia] northern Borneo [Sabah]: 3 „„, same data as holotype ( T. C. Maa) ( BPBM) ; 1 „, Mt Kinabalu, Mesilau Camp, 5000 ft, 2–3 April 1964 (Royal Soc. Exped., coll. S. Kueh, B. M. 1964–250); 1♀, Mt Kinabalu , Mesilau Caves Trail , 1 April 1964 (Royal Soc. Exped., coll. S. Kueh, B. M. 1964–250); 1♀, Mt Kinabalu , Mesilau Trail , 5000 ft, 13–15 March 1964 (Royal Soc. Exped., coll. S. Kueh, B. M. 1964– 250) (all in BMNH); 1 „, Tenompok, Jesselton, 1460 m, 48 km E., 17–18 October 1958 ( T. C. Maa) ; 1♀, Tenompok , 10–14 February 1959 ( T. C. Maa) (both in BPBM) .

Distribution

Sabah.

Remarks

This species can be distinguished by its relatively short and stout aedeagal shaft with the apex expanded and with a filamentous process arising subapically from the dorsal margin and by its stout subgenital plates with a dorsally directed apical process.