Parapiromis kiungaensis, Bu, Cui-Ping, Larivière, Marie-Claude & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2010

Bu, Cui-Ping, Larivière, Marie-Claude & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2010, Parapiromis nom. nov., a new name for Piromis Fennah (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Ricaniidae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 2400, pp. 29-40 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.275881
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6203129
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scientific name	Parapiromis kiungaensis
status	sp. nov.

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Parapiromis kiungaensis View in CoL sp. nov.

( Figs. 25–33 View FIGURES 25 – 33 , 43 View FIGURE 43 )

Description. 3 (n=2), BL: 8 mm, FWL: 7.5 mm.

General colour brown to fuscous. Vertex and frons brown. Clypeus brown, with a narrow pale brown stripe at middle. Rostrum pallid. Pronotum and mesonotum fuscous. Thorax brown ventrally, marked with fuscous. Legs pale brown; tarsi and tips of tibiae fuscous. Abdomen brown ventrally, with pale yellow latitudinal strips; pygofer fuscous. Fore wing brown, with many hyaline areoles, forming a wide brown band near middle.

Head (including compound eyes) ( Figs. 25, 26 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) slightly wider than pronotum. Vertex ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) wider at anterior margin than long in middle line (9.3:1). Frons ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) wider at widest part than long in middle line (1.4:1); disc tricarinate, sublateral carinae shorter than central carina. Clypeus ( Fig. 26 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) triangular, without central carina.

Pronotum ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) wider at widest part than long in middle line (5.8:1), punctuated beside central carina. Mesonotum ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) large, longer than broad, with tricarinate on disc, lateral carina on each side diverging from the middle one, disunited on the fore border. Wing venation as in Figs. 27–28 View FIGURES 25 – 33 .

Male genitalia with pygofer ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) narrow and high, with dorsal posterior margin smoothly produced posteriorly in lateral view. Anal tube ( Fig. 29 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) moderately large, oval in dorsal view, longer than wide at middle (1.4:1). Genital styles ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) relatively large, broad in lateral aspect, with long apical process, in profile longer than wide at middle (3.1:1). Aedeagus ( Figs. 31–33 View FIGURES 25 – 33 ) stout, nearly straight, mostly sclerotised, symmetrical, with 10 short spines on lateral margins, and two pairs of cephalad directed dorsal processes at apex, the inner pair spinose short, moderately sinuate, nearly paralleled, the outer pair long, narrowly tubular and weakly sinuate in basal, membranous in the succeeding, and sclerotised and acuminate apically, deeply crossed.

Material examined. Holotype 3, Papua New Guinea, Kiunga, Fly River, 10–17.ix.1957. W.W. Brandt Collector ( BPBM). Paratype. Papua New Guinea: 13, Woodlark I. (Murua) Kulumadau Hill, 16.ii.1957, W.W. Brandt collector ( CAS).

Etymology. This species is named after its distribution in Papua New Guinea (Kiunga, Fly River).

Distribution. Papua New Guinea.

Remarks. This species can be distinguished from other known species in Parapiromis by its fore wing with fewer areoles and a wider brown band near middle and its aedeagus with 10 short spines on the lateral margins.