Baibarana uchidai Matsumura, 1940

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 : 2084-2085

Baibarana uchidai Matsumura

( Figures 3, 5 , 29 , 45–50 ) Baibarana uchidai Matsumura 1940, p 42 , Plate ii, Figure 4 ; Metcalf 1961, p 430.

Lectotype „, designated by Komatsu and Hayashi 1998, p 170, Taiwan (HU)

[examined].

Description

Length: „ 4.8–5.0 mm, ♀ 4.6–5.0 mm.

Vertex and pronotum olivaceous yellow; ocelli red. Face ochraceous with antennal sockets, antennal pedicel and upper region of frons brown, the latter sometimes with a narrow, transverse brown or fuscous fascia; scutellum, thorax beneath, and legs ochraceous, sometimes with brown suffusion. Fore wings brown, sometimes with costal and apical area and subapical transverse band, ochraceous. Abdomen brown.

Fore wings densely granulate, some granules confluent forming ridges; veins indistinct.

Male genitalia with subgenital plates ( Figures 45–47 ) with expanded basal region nearly triangular in lateroventral view; apical spine-like process very short and stout, directed anterodorsally, with a laminate, finger-like process along basal half of inner margin. Lateral plates ( Figure 47 ) short and broad in lateral view, moderately posteriorly protruded beyond posterior margin of pygofer. Styles ( Figures 46, 47 ) with bifurcate apex, outer fork smaller, laminate, strongly sclerotized and hook-shaped and inner fork larger, somewhat papilliform. Aedeagus as in Figure 50 .

Distribution

Taiwan (Formosa).

Material examined

Lectotype: „, Taiwan: ‘‘ Baibara , 23 July [19]25, T. Uchida, Type Matsumura ; Baibarana uchidai Mats. ; Takaptyelus uchidai Mats. , designated by Komatsu and Hayashi (1998) ’’ (HU). Taiwan: 1 „, Baron (Formosa), 10 August 1941 (H. Hasegawa leg.) (HU); 3 „„, 4♀♀, Formosa, Matsumura (HU); 1 „, Mt Rara (Formosa), 8 August 1941 (H. Hasegawa leg.) ( IZCAS); 1♀, [ Taiwan]: Musha (Wuse) to Banda, Talohung District, 1000 m, 24 August 1947 (J. L. Gressitt) ( IZCAS).

Remarks

This species is very similar to B. bicolor but can be distinguished from the latter by its distinctly larger size and in the male genitalia by their broader subgenital plates and more elongate aedeagal shaft with a more broadly arched basal part.

Figures

Figures 1–8. Baibarana and Telogmometopius species. (1) Baibarana rufofasciata, dorsal habitus. (2) Telogmometopius carinilabratus, dorsal habitus. (3) B. uchidai, head, ventral view. (4) T. carinilabratus (China: Yunnan), head, ventral view. (5) B. uchidai, head and pronotum, lateral view. (6) T. obsoletus, head and pronotum, lateral view. (7, 8) T. carinilabratus (China: Yunnan): (7) fore wing; (8) hind wing.

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 40–55. Baibarana species, male genitalia, left lateral view except where indicated. (40–44) B. bicolor: (40) male genital capsule, ventral view; (41) male genital capsule; (42) subgenital plate; (43) genital style; (44) aedeagus. (45–50) B. uchidai: (45) male genital capsule, ventral view; (46) subgenital plate; (47) male genital capsule; (48) apex of pygofer, ventral view; (49) genital style; (50) aedeagus. (51–55) B. sinuata: (51) male genital capsule, ventral view; (52) male genital capsule; (53) subgenital plate; (54) lateral plate; (55) genital style.