Belbina madagascariensis ( Westwood, 1851 ) Constant, 2014

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 : 26-27

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2902587E-8F52-4E91-AA14-36339E54D05E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3852493

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/64738955-C410-DA02-D4F4-02B73823F86C

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scientific name

Belbina madagascariensis ( Westwood, 1851 )
status

comb. nov.

Belbina madagascariensis ( Westwood, 1851) View in CoL comb. nov.

Figs 8A–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 , 26–27 View Figs 24–29 , 46 View Figs 46–49

Aphana madagascariensis Westwood, 1851: 208 (neotype in MNHN).

Aphana madagascariensis – Walker 1852: 1134 (listed). — Stål 1866: 263 (listed). — Lallemand 1959: 85 (description, comments). — Constant 2004b: 31 (listed, comments).

Aphaenina madagascariensis View in CoL – Metcalf 1947: 152 (catalogued).

Diagnostic characters

(1) disc of tegmina red or orange ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); (2) cephalic process elongate and narrow, projecting anterodorsad ( Fig. 8D–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); (3) ground colour of tegmina brown ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); (4) large-sized (more than 26 mm long); (5) black-brown spots with white center on tegmina ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ).

Material examined

Neotype

MADAGASCAR: ♀, neotype of Aphana madagascariensis Westwood, 1851 , here designated, [Goudot Madagascar 1832] [Museum Paris] [Pterobaptes. Amyot.- vari -egata Spin. A. Fr. VIII. 225.-Senegal] [Neotype ♀ Aphana madagascariensis Westwood, 1851 J. Constant des. 2013] [ Belbina madagascariensis ( Westwood, 1851) Det. Jérôme Constant 2013 ] ( MNHN).

Note: A neotype is here designated in order to stabilise the nomenclature in the group, following rule 75.3 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature ( ICZN 1999). The specimen chosen here is probably the one on which Westwood (1851) based his description. It was collected by Jules Prosper Goudot in 1832 and included in the collections of the MNHN in 1834 (Adeline Soulier-Perkins pers. comm.). Westwood (1851) stated that the specimen he examined was from the collections of the “Mus. Jardin des Plantes, Paris”, the name of the MNHN at that time. No specimen labelled Aphana madagascariensis was found in the collections of the MNHN, but the specimen chosen here perfectly matches the original description. Lallemand (1959) assumed that the type was lost and stated that, according to the description, the species probably belonged to Belbina or Cornelia . As it is not totally certain that the specimen is the one on which the original description was based, I designate it here as a neotype rather than recognize it as the holotype.

Additional material

MADAGASCAR: 1 ♀, Mad[agascar] ( MNHN); 1 ♀, Tenina, J. Vadon, 15°45’ S, 49°40’ E ( RBINS); 1 ♂, NE Madagascar, Fampanambo, Jul. 1959, J. Vadon, 15°22’ S, 49°38’ E ( MRAC).

Redescription

LT: ♂ (n = 1) 26.3 mm; ♀ (n = 1) 28.3 mm.

HEAD. Yellow-brown with 2 darker patches on disc of vertex ( Fig. 8C–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); yellow-orange patch around insertion of antennae ( Fig. 8D View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); vertex with hind margin slightly carinate and obsolete median carina on disc extending posterad beyond hind margin; sides of vertex strongly carinate, laminate above eye and extending anteriorly to apex of cephalic process; sides of vertex slightly bisinuate in lateral view ( Fig. 8C–D View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); frons with 2 carinae extending ventrally on sides of process ( Fig. 8E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); cephalic process about 3.2 times as long as diameter of eye, projecting anterodorsad, curved, elongate and narrow; apical half ventrally with median carina getting laminate near apex ( Fig. 8D–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); transverse wrinkles dorsally at base of process ( Fig. 8C View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); postclypeus with sides strongly carinate and slight median carina; anteclypeus with median carina ( Fig. 8E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); labium very long, reaching or surpassing apex of abdomen.

THORAX. Yellow-brown with slightly paler markings ( Fig. 8C–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); pronotum with strong median carina ( Fig. 8C View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); carina very slightly sinuate in lateral view ( Fig. 8D View Figs 7–9. — 7 ) and with strongly impressed point on each side ( Fig. 8C View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); hind margin elevated above level of mesonotum medially ( Fig. 8D View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); peridiscal carina anteriorly ( Fig. 8C View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); sides of prothorax with oblique carina; lateral lobe of pronotum rounded posteriorly ( Fig. 8D–E View Figs 7–9. — 7 ); mesonotum with median carina stopped at scutellum; curved peridiscal carina; short oblique carina at base of scutellum; scutellum transversely wrinkled ( Fig. 8C View Figs 7–9. — 7 ).

TEGMINA ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ). Brown with irregular black-brown, often confluent, small spots with pale yellowbrown center; center of spots covered with white waxy secretion in fresh specimens; no spots beyond nodal line of cross-veins except at apicosutural angle; apex of clavus with large black-brown marking followed by white patch along sutural margin; costal margin straight, slightly rounded after nodal line; apical margin oblique, straight in middle and with angles rounded; sutural margin sinuate.

HIND WINGS ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ). Broad; disc largely bright red or orange; apex and sutural margin brown-black; 2–4 small, brown-black spots on disc; sutural margin bisinuate.

LEGS ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ). Elongate and slender; pro- and mesofemora brown with 3 narrow, sinuate and often incomplete pale yellow rings; pro- and mesotibiae brown with 2 pale yellow rings; metafemora brown with imprecise yellow ring; metatibiae and metatarsi yellow-brown, tibiae darker basally; metatibiae with 5 (sometimes 4) lateral and 7 apical spines; 8–9 spines apicoventrally on first metatarsomere.

ABDOMEN ( Fig. 8A View Figs 7–9. — 7 ). Red dorsally, brown-black ventrally.

Male genitalia

Very finely granulose, dark brown, paler along sides of anal tube ( Figs 26–27 View Figs 24–29 ); pygofer higher than long and with posterior margin broadly rounded in lateral view ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24–29 ); anal tube slightly elongate, 1.31 times longer than broad at apex and with lateral margins sinuate in dorsal view ( Fig. 27 View Figs 24–29 ); posterior margin obliquely rounded and underside nearly straight in lateral view ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24–29 ); gonostyli elongate, 1.6 times longer than high, not surpassing anal tube and broadly rounded at apex in lateral view ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24–29 ); ventral margin slightly sinuate on basal 2/3 ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24–29 ); dorsal margin obliquely directed dorsally on basal half, then straight after angle, pointed hook-like tooth at half of basal oblique part curved lateroventrally ( Fig. 26 View Figs 24–29 ); gonostyli nearly not visible from above ( Fig. 27 View Figs 24–29 ).

Remarks

Male genitalia without basodorsal process on gonostyli.

Belbina madagascarensis can be separated (1) from B. bergrothi by the less elongate gonostyli, without large pale marking ventrally and more broadly rounded apex, and less elongate anal tube; (2) from B. foliacea by having gonostyli more broadly rounded apically and without a strong angle above the mediodorsal tooth; (3) from B. nympha by having the margins of the anal tube not rounded laterally and the dorsal margin of the gonostyli nearly straight on the apical half; (4) from B. recurva by having the anal tube not produced into a semi-circular lateral plate.

Distribution

Fig. 46 View Figs 46–49 .

MNHN

France, Paris, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

MNHN

Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle

RBINS

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

MRAC

Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Fulgoridae

Genus

Belbina

Loc

Belbina madagascariensis ( Westwood, 1851 )

Constant, Jérôme 2014
2014
Loc

Aphaenina madagascariensis

Metcalf Z. P. 1947: 152
1947
Loc

Aphana madagascariensis

Constant J. 2004: 31
Lallemand V. 1959: 85
Stal C. 1866: 263
Walker F. 1852: 1134
1852
Loc

Aphana madagascariensis

Westwood J. O. 1851: 208
1851
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