Scamandra mangolana, Constant & Rbins, 1758

Constant, Jérôme & Rbins, Fulgoroidea. Introduction The study of unidentified material in the accessions of, 1758, Four new species of the Oriental lanternfly genus Scamandra Stål, 1863 from Sulawesi and neighbouring islands with taxonomic notes on the genus (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 50, pp. 1-21 : 1-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.13272198
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scientific name	Scamandra mangolana
status	sp. nov.

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Scamandra mangolana View in CoL sp. nov.

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ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet is derived from Mangole Island, referring to the type location of the species.

TYPE MATERIAL. INDONESIA, Mangole Island : Holotype ♀: [Coll. I.R.Sc.N.B., Indonesia, Mangole Isl., 1°48’S 125°48’E, iii.2011, purchased from Benny De Groof, I.G.: 32.276] ( RBINS). GoogleMaps

Paratypes: 6 ♀♀: same data as holotype ( RBINS) GoogleMaps .

DIAGNOSIS. (1) head reddish brown with frons and most of clypeus black except lateral margins ( Fig. 7 B, D, F View Fig ); (2) pronotum reddish brown with lateral lobes black-brown ( Fig. 7 B, D, F View Fig ); (3) disc of mesonotum largely black-brown ( Fig. 7 B View Fig ); (4) nodal line of tegmina with olivaceous brown C-shaped marking in middle ( Fig. 4 A View Fig ); (5) tegmina with corium mostly bright red ( Fig. 7 A View Fig ); (6) hind wings bright red on basal 2/3 including anal and sutural zones ( Fig. 7 A View Fig ); (5) legs black-brown with darker femora ( Fig. 7 C View Fig ).

DESCRIPTION.

Measurements and ratios. LT: ♀: (n = 7): 33.6 mm (32.9–34.7); LTg/BTg: 2.4; BV/LV: 3.5; BF/LF: 0.98; BT/LP + LM: 1.18; LM/LP: 1.78; LMe/LCo: 1.0.

Head: ( Fig. 7 B, D, F View Fig ) reddish brown with frons and postclypeus black-brown except sides narrowly red-brown; anteclypeus dark red; antennae red; cephalic process not reaching posterior margin of vertex ( Fig. 7 B View Fig ); vertex short, with disc wrinkled, and lateral and posterior margins carinate ( Fig. 7 B View Fig ); frons coriaceous with short hairs, 2 weak longitudinal carinae and one obsolete median carina on dorsal ¼ ( Fig. 7 D View Fig ); labium brown, surpassing metatrochanters ( Fig. 7 C View Fig ); pedicel of antennae kidney-shaped with flagellum inserted dorsolaterally.

Thorax: ( Fig. 7 B, D, F View Fig ) prothorax reddish brown with lateral lobes of pronotum black-brown; lateral carinae yellow-brown; wrinkled, with short hairs and 2 impressed points on disc of pronotum; median carina obsolete, barely distinct ( Fig. 7 B View Fig ). Mesonotum reddish brown with large black-brown marking on disc, reaching anterior margin; apex of scutellum slightly projecting dorsally ( Fig. 7 F View Fig ).

Tegmina: ( Fig. 7 A, C View Fig ) corium bright red with yellow veins and cross-veins, and some irregular olivaceous spots; costal bright red on proximal ¼ then yellowish along costal margin with yellowish zone broadening towards distal part; yellowish marking at base of radial cell; yellow cross veins more obvious at half length, sometimes forming an unclear transverse band; ventrally, veins and cross-veins marked with white waxy secretion from base to level of dorsal unclear transverse band ( Fig. 7 C View Fig ); nodal line strongly bisinuate and with C-shaped dark olivaceous brown marking in middle; C-shaped marking narrowly bordered with dark red along distal margin; membrane brown with reddish venation. Costal margin straight on most length; posterior margin broadly rounded; sutural margin straight.

Hind wings: ( Fig. 7 A, C View Fig ) basal 2/3 entirely bright red with cross-veins white; membrane yellow-brown with veins reddish; white waxy secretion near base dorsally, extending to cross-veins on proximal half ventrally.

Legs: ( Fig. 7 A, C View Fig ) dark brown with femora darker distally, sometimes nearly black; profemora slightly inflated apically; metatibiae with 4–5 lateral spines, basal one well developed, and 7 apical spines.

Abdomen: ( Fig. 7 A, C View Fig ) bright red.

DISTRIBUTION. Mangole Island near Sulawesi ( Fig. 3 View Fig ).

NOTE. Scamandra mangolana sp. nov. is rather similar to S. huangi Constant, 2013 but differs from the latter (see CONSTANT, 2013: figs 2 & 7 for illustrations) by (1) the bright red background colour of the corium of the tegmina (olivaceous brown in S. huangi ); (2) corium of hind wing entirely bright red (large vinaceous red marking along the costal margin of the corium of the hind wing in S. huangi ); (3) the white wax extending ventrally on most of corium (limited to transverse band at half length in S. huangi ).

It also resembles S. collaris sp. nov. ( Figs 4–5 View Fig View Fig ) from which it differs by (1) pronotum entirely reddish brown dorsally (black-brown collar on anterior half of the pronotum in S. collaris sp. nov.); (2) the bright red background colour of the corium of the tegmina (olivaceous brown in S. collaris sp. nov.); (3) the corium of hind wing entirely bright red (large vinaceous red marking along the costal margin of the corium of the hind wing in S. collaris sp. nov.).

Finally, it can be separated from the superficially similar S. voisinae Nagai & Porion, 2002 , which also shows a C-shaped marking on mostly bright red or bright orange tegmina (see PORION et al., 2016: figs 9–10 for illustrations), by (1) the largely brown-black frons (red-brown in S. voisinae ); (2) the basal 2/3 of the hind wings entirely bright red (broadly bordered with white along sutural margin in S. voisinae ); (3) the black-brown legs (red in S. voisinae ).