Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret, 1860

Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret, 1860 View in CoL

Figs 1–2 View Fig View Fig , Table 1 View Tab

Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret, 1860: 185 View in CoL , pl. 5 figs 2, 2a–c.

Conicoda graminea Matsumura, 1900: 259 View in CoL .

Ectopiopterygodelphax eximius Kirkaldy, 1906: 412 View in CoL .

Tropidocephala philippina Melichar, 1914: 273 View in CoL .

Tropidocephala brunnipennis View in CoL – Matsumura 1907: 59, pl. 1 figs 3, 9. — Muir 1929: 190. — Matsumura & Ishihara 1945: 60, fig. 25. — Ishihara 1949: 12, figs 22–25. — Kuoh et al. 1983: 32, fig. 13. — Yang & Yang 1986: 18, fig. 7. — Ding & Wang 1996: 18, fig. 11. — Ding 2006: 161, fig. 74.

Tropidocephala graminea View in CoL – Oshanin 1907: 300.

Tropidocephala eximius View in CoL – Kirkaldy 1907: 142, pl. 12 figs 5–7, pl. 17 figs 15–16.

Material examined

CHINA • 2 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Hainan Province, Bawangling National Forest Park; 19°04′ N, 109°07′ E; 16 Apr. 2013; Jian-Kun Long and Yu-Bo Zhang leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; Hainan Province, Yinggeling National Natural Reserve ; 19°02′ N, 109°34′ E; 10 Aug. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 5 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; Hainan Province, Diaoluoshan National Forest Park; 18°44′ N, 109°50′ E; 13 Aug. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou, Qiang Luo and Ya-Lin Yao leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 1 ♂; Hainan Province, Yinggeling National Natural Reserve ; 19°02′ N, 109°34′ E; 7 Apr. 2017; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; Hainan Province, Bawangling National Forest Park; 19°04′ N, 109°07′ E; 29 Apr. 2017; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀; Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Menglun Town, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences ; 21°54′ N, 101°17′ E; 27 Sep. 2015; Zheng-Xiang Zhou leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps • 3 ♂♂, 1 ♀; Yunnan Province, Mengla County, Menglun Town ; 21°55′ N, 101°15′ E; 1 Dec. 2016; Hong-Xing Li leg.; IEGU GoogleMaps .

Redescription

MEASUREMENTS. Body length including forewing: male 3.2–3.4 mm (N = 14), female 3.5–3.7 mm (N = 7).

COLORATION. General color yellowish brown with green ( Fig. 1A–B View Fig ). Vertex, pronotum and mesonotum ( Fig. 1A–D View Fig ) pale yellowish brown with verdant green.Apical part of frons ( Fig. 1E View Fig ) dark brown. Clypeus ( Fig. 1E View Fig ) dark brown. Genae ( Fig. 1B, D View Fig ) black. First segment of antennae ( Fig. 1A–E View Fig ) with black brown stripe at apical part, second segment with a black brown stripe oblique from base to center, apical part with dark brown ring-like marking. Forewings ( Fig. 1F View Fig ) light yellowish brown, 2 large transparent spots near basal and middle parts, apex of each apical cells with transparent spot, inner side of crossveins with 3 dark brown burl spots, burl spot with lateral sides small, middle part big, Sc 2, R 1, Rs of apical part with small dark brown spots.

HEAD AND THORAX. Vertex ( Figs 1C View Fig , 2A View Fig ) triangular, longer in midline than wide at base (1.4:1). Frons ( Figs 1E View Fig , 2B View Fig ) fusiform, base obviously narrower than end, widest at middle level of eyes, longer in middle line than wide at widest part (1.8:1), with obvious median carinae, slightly concave near base. Antennae ( Figs 1E View Fig , 2B View Fig ) with first segment shorter than second segment about 1:2.0. Pronotum ( Figs 1C View Fig , 2A View Fig ) shorter than vertex about 0.9: 1 in midline. Mesonotum ( Figs 1C View Fig , 2A View Fig ) longer than 0.9× pronotum and vertex combined, median carinae extend to terminal part of scutellum. Forewings ( Fig. 1F View Fig ) slightly broadened apically, longer than maximal width (2.5:1).

MALE GENITALIA. Pygofer ( Fig. 2C–D View Fig ) ventral margin slightly longer than dorsal margin in lateral view, in posterior view with opening longer than wide, with rod-like medioventral process, lateroventral processes lamellar. Anal segment ( Fig. 2C–E View Fig ) short, without anal process, wider than long in lateral view, anal style long. Genital styles ( Fig. 2F–G View Fig ) lamellar, broad, basal and near middle parts each with long spiny process, basal one with several small dentate processes; apical part of inner side with short thick process; outer margin broadened abruptly at apex, outer apical angle arc-shaped, with several small toothlike processes. Aedeagus ( Fig. 2E, H–I View Fig ) with phallobase, phallus slender, tubular, curved ventrally medially, apical part cuspidal; phallobase wide and long, bend accordingly to phallus, apical part cuspidal.

Host plant

Imperata cylindrica (L.) P. Beauv. ( Poales , Poaceae ), Miscanthus sinensis Anderss. ( Poales , Poaceae ), Oryza sativa L. ( Poales , Poaceae ), Saccharum officinarum L. ( Poales , Poaceae ).

Distribution

China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang provinces), Australia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Madagascar, Malaysia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, North America, Philippines, South Africa, southern Europe, Sri Lanka.