Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010

Jiaranaisakul, Kawin, Makbun, Noppadon & Constant, Jérôme, 2010, The lanternflies of the Penthicodes (Ereosoma) atomaria + species group in Thailand: New records and host plants (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 71, pp. 1-15 : 1-15

Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010 new country record

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Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED: THAILAND: 1♂, 1♀ ( Fig. 1 ): Ratchaburi, Suan Phueng , 5.IX.2017, night collecting, K. Jiaranaisakul .

MATERIAL EXAMINED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS: THAILAND: 1 ex. ( Fig. 2 A ): Kanchanaburi, 11.X.2011 , K. Jiaranaisakul; 1 ex. ( Fig. 2 C–D ): Nakhon Ratchasima, Khao Yai National Park , 23.III.2015 , R. Hongsaeng ; 1 ex. ( Fig. 2 E ): Petchabun, Nam Nao National Park , 15.IV.2012 , N. Makbun; 1 ex. ( Fig. 2 F ): Surat Thani, Khao Sok National Park , IV.2008 , A. Mommerency.

DIAGNOSIS. Tegmina yellow-brown with white patch only along sutural margin on nodal line of cross-veins; marked with numerous small black-brown spots on disc and membrane, some spots on veins are v-shaped; 2-3 bigger black spots on disc between veins Sc and R1-R2; disc of hind wing reddish with 11 black spots in 3 rows and 4 white spots on apicocostal half of disc; abdominal tergites red, sometimes black mediobasally.

The species is close to P. (Ereosoma) atomaria and P. (Ereosoma) pulchella from which it can be separated based on the following characters of the male genitalia:

(1) posterior margin of gonostyli slightly truncate in lateral view ( Fig. 3 I ) [rounded in P. (Ereosoma) atomaria and P. (Ereosoma) pulchella ( Fig. 3 A, E )];

(2) lateral margin of anal tube curved in lateral view ( Fig. 3 I ) [angularly curved in P. (Ereosoma) atomaria ( Fig. 3 A ) and slightly curved in P. (Ereosoma) pulchella ( Fig. 3 E ); (3) anal tube in dorsal view strongly narrowing at proximal 1/3, then with margins parallel to apex ( Fig. 3 K ) [progressively narrowing from proximal 1/ 3 in P. (Ereosoma) atomaria ( Fig. 3 C ) or from base in P. (Ereosoma) pulchella ( Fig. 3 G )];

(4) gonostyli shorter and broader in posteroventral view ( Fig. 3L ) than in P. (Ereosoma) atomaria ( Fig. 3 D ) and P. (Ereosoma) pulchella ( Fig. 3 H ).

MEASUREMENTS. ♂: body length: 16.9 mm (anterior margin of vertex to apex of abdomen); tegmina: 19.1 mm; hind wing: 12.4 mm.

BIOLOGY. One specimen was collected on a trunk of Castanopsis sp. ( Fagaceae ).

DISTRIBUTION. N. India and Thailand ( Fig. 4 ).

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Fig. 1. Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010. A–D, ♂. A, habitus, dorsal view. B, head and prothorax, lateral view. C, habitus, ventral view. D, head, pro- and mesonotum, dorsal view. E, ♀, habitus, dorsal view.

Fig. 2. Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010 in nature. A, Ratchaburi, Suan Phueng, 11.X.2011 (photograph by K. Jiaranaisakul). B, habitat in Suan Phueng, 27.X.2017 (photograph by K. Jiaranaisakul). C–D, Nakhon Ratchasima, Khao Yai National Park, 23.III.2015 (photograph by R. Hongsaeng). E, Petchabun, Nam Nao National Park, 15.IV.2012 (photograph by N. Makbun). F, Surat Thani, Khao Sok National Park, IV.2008 (photograph by A. Mommerency).

Fig. 3. Penthicodes (Ereosoma) spp. Male genitalia. A–D. P. (Ereosoma) atomaria. A, pygofer, anal tube and gonostyli, left lateral view. B, anal tube, posterior view. C, anal tube and pygofer, dorsal view. D, pygofer and gonostyli, posteroventral view. E–H. P. (Ereosoma) pulchella. E, pygofer, anal tube and gonostyli, left lateral view. F, anal tube, posterior view. G, anal tube and pygofer, dorsal view. H, pygofer and gonostyli, posteroventral view. I–L. P. (Ereosoma) warleti. I, pygofer, anal tube and gonostyli, left lateral view. J, anal tube, posterior view. K, anal tube and pygofer, dorsal view. L, pygofer and gonostyli, posteroventral view. An: anal tube; G: gonostyli; Py: pygofer. Scale 2 mm.

Fig. 4. Penthicodes (Ereosoma) warleti Constant, 2010, map of the records in Thailand.