Paurocephala sulawesiana, Mifsud & Burckhardt, 2002

Mifsud, D. & Burckhardt, D., 2002, Taxonomy and phylogeny of the Old World jumping plant-louse genus Paurocephala (Insecta, Hemiptera, Psylloidea), Journal of Natural History 36 (16), pp. 1887-1986 : 1976

Paurocephala sulawesiana sp. n.

(gures 31D, 32G, M, 33D, J, 34D)

Description. Species of the brevicephala type.

Adult: head yellow, white towards genae; vertex covered by inconspicuous setae. Clypeus yellow. Antenna yellow to orange, segment 8 brown; segment 7 with a long basal seta. Thorax orange to light brown and covered by inconspicuous setae dorsally, yellow laterally and ventrally. Metascutellar horn small, wide basally, blunt apically. Forewing transparent to light yellow; veins yellow, apically light brown to forewing margin, central part of vein A brown; pterostigma white. Forewing with short setae on veins (vein Rs with 11–14 setae); Rs vein marginally curved in basal half. Surface spinules present in all cells of forewing, reduced in c1 sc; radular spinules lacking. Legs yellow, tarsal segments white. Meracanthus short, almost straight laterally, rounded apically. Abdominal tergites brown, sternites and genitalia white to yellow. Male paramere elongate widest basally and tapering apically, apical half directed posteriorly, few relatively long setae posteriorly visible from lateral view. Measurements and ratios as in table 2A–C.

Fifth instar larva: colour unknown. Similar to P. brevicephala . Measurements and ratios as in table 3.

Host plants. The material has been collected on? Zyzygium sp. (Myrtaceae) which is an unlikely host.

Distribution. Indonesia (Sulawesi).

Material examined. HOLOTYPE, Indonesia: Sulawesi, Sulawesi Utara, Duloduo- Molibagu road, ca 200 m, 29 May 1985,? Syzygium sp. (J. H. Martin) ( BMNH). Dry mounted.

PARATYPES. Indonesia: 32, 30 and numerous larvae, same data as holotype ( BMNH, NHMB). Dry and slide mounted and preserved in alcohol .

Comments. Similar to P. brevicephala (Crawford) from which it diVers in the adult in the absence of a long basal seta on antennal segment 8. No characters were found to separate the larvae.