Calophya orbicola, Burckhardt & Basset, 2000

Burckhardt, D. & Basset, Y., 2000, The jumping plant-lice (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) associated with Schinus (Anacardiaceae): systematics, biogeography and host plant relationships, Journal of Natural History 34 (1), pp. 57-155 : 115-116

Calophya orbicola sp. n.

(®gures 7G±K, 17)

Trioza sp.? Kie er and JoÈ rgensen, 1910: 387; JoÈ rgensen, 1917: 6

Description. Adult. Coloration. Head and body dark brown to black. Tips of genal processes and antennal segments 1±8 greyish brown. Tibiae and basitarsi yellowish. Intersegmental membranes of abdomen light reddish brown. Forewings ochreous, veins brown. Young specimens yellowish orange, becoming gradually darker.

Structure. Anterior portion of vertex covered in setae which are in average shorter than distance between them; genal processes long, slender, contiguous in the middle. Forewings (®gure 7H) oval, widest in the middle, irregularly rounded apically; surface spinules, apart from base, wanting. Genitalia as in ®gure 7G, I±K. Male subgenital plate short; proctiger massive; paramere lamellar obliquely truncate apically; distal portion of aedeagus slender, hardly curved with short ¯attened apical dilatation. Female proctiger with long apical process; subgenital plate long, pointed apically.

Measurements in mm (2, l 2 m). HW 0.61±0.63; AL 0.65±0.77; WL 2.24±2.26; MP 0.24±0.26; PL 0.16±0.18; AA 0.20±0.22; FP 0.44±0.48; VL/GL 0.95±1.54; AL/F1 2.18±2.48; AL/HW 1.07±1.26; WL/HW 3.56±3.81; WL/WW 2.25±2.43; a/b 1.38±1.55; c/d 0.74±0.98; TL/HW 0.83±0.90; MP/HW 0.38±0.41; AB/AA 0.95; FP/HW 0.72±0.77; FP/SL 1.29±1.37; FP/CL 3.67±4.00; FP/FA 2.82±2.93.

Fifth instar larva (®gure 17). Anterior margin of head weakly concavely rounded, not cleft in the middle. Antennae strongly curved downwards, without sectasetae. Legs with claws. Anterior margin of humeral lobes level with the middle of eye margin. Abdominal dorsum without median row of horns. Caudal plate ratio 0.49. Circumanal ring absent. Head and wing bud margins with clavate setae; abdominal margin with very slender and elongate lanceolate setae.

Host plant, gall and biology. Schinus fasciculatus . Inducing disk or spherical galls on the leaves. The gall was described by Kie er and JoÈrgensen (1910) and JoÈ rgensen (1917).

Distribution. Argentina (Mendoza). Reported from the Cordilleras from Mendoza (Kie er and JoÈ rgensen, 1910; JoÈ rgensen, 1917).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, l Argentina: Province Mendoza, above Villa Vicencia , 50 km NW Mendoza, 1800±2200 m, 18.i.1997, Schinus fasciculatus (D. Burckhardt) , dry mounted ( MHNG).

PARATYPES. Argentina: 20, l 24 m, 2 larvae, same data as holotype ; 1 m, same data but 47 km Mendoza to Villa Vicencia , 1400 m, 18.i.1997; 2 m, same data but Mendoza Valley , Uspallata to Potrerillos , 1700 m, 30± 31.xii.1995; 1 m, same data but Punta de Vacas to Uspallata , 1900 m, 16± 19.i.1997; 2 m, same data but Potrerillos , 1300 m, 17.i.1997; 2, l 4 m, same data but Villa Hodel , 7 km Cacheuta to Mendoza , 1100 m, 17.i.1997; 1 m, Mendoza, Zoological Garden , vii.1997 (S. Roig) ; dry and slide mounted (BMNH, MHNG, NHMB, USNM).

Material not included in type series. Argentina: disk or spherical galls on leaves of Schinus fasciculatus , Province Mendoza, 47 km Mendoza to Villa Vicencia, 1400 m, 18.i.1997 (D. Burckhardt); disk galls on leaves of Schinus fasciculatus , same data but above Villa Vicencia, 50 km NW Mendoza, 1800±2200 m, low scrub; disk or spherical galls on leaves of Schinus fasciculatus , same data but Mendoza Valley, Uspallata to Potrerillos, 1700 m, 30± 31.xii.1995; several ®rst to third instar larvae, same data as holotype; preserved in alcohol (MHNG).