Penthicodes ( Penthicodes ) farinosus (Weber, 1801)

Jiaranaisakul, Kawin & Constant, Jérôme, 2022, New records of Penthicodes lanternfly species from Thailand and Malaysia and nomenclatural notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), Bonn zoological Bulletin 71 (2), pp. 87-97 : 92-96

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scientific name	Penthicodes ( Penthicodes ) farinosus (Weber, 1801)
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Penthicodes ( Penthicodes) farinosus (Weber, 1801)

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Diagnosis. The species is easy to differentiate from the other Penthicodes species by the vertex wider than long in dorsal view with two patches of white waxy secretion. Only P. ( Penthicodes) nicobaricus (Stål, 1869) from An- daman and Nicobar Islands shows waxy patches on the vertex but its vertex is as wide as long in dorsal view ( Constant 2010; Constant & Mohan 2017).

Material examined. Thailand: 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Yala Prov., Betong Dist. , 3.VIII.2020, A. Aksorn- neam, P. Pawangkhanant & T . Ruangsuwan leg., THNHM-I-24964–THNHM-I-24968 ( THNHM) ; 1 ♀, Phang Nga Prov., Thai Mueang Dist., Khanim Waterfall , 8°29’48.7” N, 98°17’01.3” E, 50 m a.s.l., 20.X.2021, K. Jiaranaisakul leg. ( THNHM) GoogleMaps .

Material examined from photographs. Malaysia (Borneo): 1 specimen ( Fig. 6D View Fig ) , Sarawak, Mulu National 96 Kawin Jiaranaisakul & Jérôme Constant

Park, 27.II.2009, on Ailanthus integrifolia Lam. ( Simaroubaceae ), W.K. Fletcher & D.M. Baylis.

Thailand: 1 specimen ( Fig. 7D View Fig ), Yala Province, Beto- ng, 31.XII.2020, K. Saechan .

Distribution. Borneo, Indonesia ( Java, Sumatra), West Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines (Distant 1901; Lalle- mand 1963; Seidel & Wessel 2013; Bourgoin 2022) and Thailand (new country record).

Note. The record from Tavoy (currently Dawei, Myan- mar), far north of the Isthmus of Kra, by Distant (1906) is regarded as doubtful and further studies are needed for confirmation.

Biology. Penthicodes ( Penthicodes) farinosus has been found only in the southernmost part of Thailand. Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br. ( Apocynaceae ) is a host plant of P. ( Penthicodes) farinosus in Thailand ( Fig. 7B View Fig ), while the species was recorded on Ailanthus integrifolia Lam. in Borneo (W.K. Fletcher & D.M. Baylis pers. com., 2020; Fig. 6D View Fig ).