Belbina bloetei Lallemand, 1959

Constant, Jérôme, 2014, Revision of the Malagasy lanternfly genus Belbina Stål, 1863, with two new species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), European Journal of Taxonomy 102, pp. 1-37 : 16-17

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.102

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852499

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/64738955-C406-DA08-D76B-06783872F92D

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scientific name

Belbina bloetei Lallemand, 1959
status

 

Belbina bloetei Lallemand, 1959 View in CoL

Figs 2A–E View Figs 1–3. — 1 , 15–16 View Figs 13–18 , 46 View Figs 46–49

Belbina blotei Lallemand, 1959: 92 View in CoL , fig. 40a–b (lateral view of head, wing venation) (type in RMNH).

Belbina blotei View in CoL – Constant 2004b: 31 (listed).

Note

The species epithet refers to the Dr H.C. Blöte (RMNH) and is emended following the article 32.5.2.1 of ICZN (1999).

Diagnostic characters

(1) disc of hind wings red ( Fig. 2A View Figs 1–3. — 1 ); (2) size more than 26 mm; (3) cephalic process projecting dorsad, broad ( Fig. 2D–E View Figs 1–3. — 1 ); (4) ground colour of tegmina and head pale rosy brown; (5) rectangular pale patch on clavus ( Fig. 2A, C View Figs 1–3. — 1 ).

LT: ♂ (n = 1) 27.0 mm; ♀ (n = 1) 29.5 mm.

Material examined

Holotype

MADAGASCAR: ♀ (examined on photographs), [Madagascar, coll. Lambert.] [environs de Tananarive] [Type] [ Belbina blotei Lall., V. Lallemand det., 195] [ RMNH.INS.780532], Tananarive (Antananarivo), 18°55’ S, 47°31’ E ( RMNH). – Note: “Lambert” = Lamberton. GoogleMaps

Paratypes

MADAGASCAR: 1 ♀ (examined on photographs), [Madagascar, rec. Lamberton] [environs de Tananarive] [ Belbina blotei Lallemand, V. Lallemand det., 195] [Paratype] [ RMNH.INS.780531] ( RMNH); 1 ♂, 1 ♀, [environs de Tananarive] ( FSAG). Note: Lallemand (1959) stated that all types are deposited in RMNH but he actually retained 2 paratypes in his collection (now in FSAG).

Additional material

MADAGASCAR: 1 ♂, Mahajanga Prov., Forêt de Tsimembo, 8.7 km 336° NNW of Soatana, 19°1’17” S, 44°26’26” E, 20 m, 21–25 Nov. 2001, at light in tropical dry forest, Fisher, Griswold et al. ( CAS); 2 ♀♀, near Tananarive, Lamberton ( RBINS); 2 ♀♀, Morondava à Mahabo, Last 1854-91, 20°20’ S, 44°28’30” E ( MNHN); 1 ♂, Madagascar ( NMPC); 1 ♂, no data ( NCSU).

1 ♀, erroneously labelled Soekaboemi, Java ( INHS).

Male genitalia

Dark red ( Figs 15–16 View Figs 13–18 ); pygofer higher than long and with posterior margin concave in middle in lateral view ( Fig. 15 View Figs 13–18 ); anal tube slightly elongate, 1.16 times longer than broad at apex and with lateral margins bisinuate in dorsal view ( Fig. 16 View Figs 13–18 ); margin of anal opening pointed posteriorly ( Fig. 15 View Figs 13–18 ) and hiding lateral margin apically in dorsal view ( Fig. 16 View Figs 13–18 ); gonostyli elongate, 1.18 times longer than high (dorsal process included), strongly surpassing apex of anal tube and acutely rounded at apex in lateral view ( Fig. 15 View Figs 13–18 ); ventral margin straight on basal 1/5, then strongly excavate ( Fig. 15 View Figs 13–18 ); dorsal margin with basal strong digitiform process projecting laterodorsally, strong hook laterally at middle of process projecting posteroventrally and posterior margin of process excavate between apex and hook ( Fig. 15 View Figs 13–18 ); apex of digitiform process rounded and broad in dorsal view ( Fig. 16 View Figs 13–18 ).

Remarks

Belbina bloetei is a member of the falleni + group, showing strong basodorsal digitiform process on gonostyli. It can be separated (1) from B. falleni , B. laetitiae sp. nov., B. lambertoni and B. pionneaui by the more strongly concave ventral margin of the gonostyli in lateral view; (2) from B. falleni by the less excavate dorsal margin of the gonostyli in dorsal view; (3) from B. laetitiae sp. nov. and B. lambertoni by the more acute apex of the gonostyli in lateral view; (4) from B. pionneaui by the more rounded apex of the basodorsal digitiform process of the gonostyli.

Distribution

See Fig. 46 View Figs 46–49 .

RMNH

National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis

FSAG

Faculte des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux

CAS

California Academy of Sciences

RBINS

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

NMPC

National Museum Prague

NCSU

North Carolina State University Insect Museum

INHS

Illinois Natural History Survey

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Fulgoridae

Genus

Belbina

Loc

Belbina bloetei Lallemand, 1959

Constant, Jérôme 2014
2014
Loc

Belbina blotei

Constant J. 2004: 31
2004
Loc

Belbina blotei Lallemand, 1959: 92

Lallemand V. 1959: 92
1959
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