Cerynia maria (White, 1846)

Yang, Weicheng & Chen, Xiangsheng, 2014, Taxonomic study on two Chinese species of the genus Cerynia (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Flatidae), ZooKeys 431, pp. 51-59 : 54-57

Taxon classification Animalia Hemiptera Flatidae

Cerynia maria (White, 1846) Figs 7-9

Poeciloptera maria White, 1846: 25.

Flata maria Walker, 1851: 436.

Cerynia maria Distant, 1879: 38; Chou et al. 1985: 88; Wang and Peng, 2007: 934.

Cerynia maria var completa Medler, 1996: 20.

Cerynia nigropustulata Medler, 1999: 20.

Description.

Body length (incl. forewing):

A form: male: 15.2-16.5 mm(n=23); female: 17.0-18.5mm (n=10)

B form: male: 15.0-16.2 mm(n=7); female: 16.2-18.0mm. (n=8)

C form: male: 14.8-15.8 mm(n=3); female: 16.0-17.8mm. (n=12)

D form: male: 15.1 mm(n=1); female: 17.5mm. (n=1)

Head and thorax colour pattern yellow-brown, with variable black to dark brown markings on mesonotum (Fig. 7).

Head including eyes slightly narrower than pronotum. Vertex depressed, nearly rectangle, median carina obsolete, anterior and posterior margins carinate; lateral margin together lateral margin of frons distinctly foliate. Base margin of frons broadly convex, apical margin nearly straight, lateral margin sinuate and distinctly foliate; disk of frons without middle carina. Clypeus subtriangular, with disk elevated in the middle, face distingctly depressed at frontoclypeal suture. Antenna with scape as long as pedicel. Pronotum with anterior margin broadly convex, middle carina obsolete, middle area of disk broad and explanate, lateral area gradually narrowing anteriorly and lateral margin nearly straight. Mesonotum with lateral carinae roundly curved. Veination of forewing complex, with dense crossveins, anterior margin slightly convex, apical margin broadly round, vein Sc with many branches, of which reaching anterior margin, R+M+Cu forking at base, apical cells distinctly long. Surface of forewings with sparse granules, area of clavus much denser. Hind tibiae with two lateral spines and seven apical spines, ventral surface groove lognitudinally.

Male genitalia. Pygofer short, with lateral margin angle arced. Genital style subrectangular, with apex abruptly narrow and bending inward, apical margin sharp (Fig. 8). Aedeagus symmetrical; phallobase with base half tubular in lateral view, dorsolateral lobe slender, ventral lobe short; apex of theca with a pair of dorsal processes, of which with some small spines (Fig. 9).

Other external features see Table 1.

Distribution.

China (Fujian, Hainan, Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou); Vietnam; India; Burma.

Material examined.

A form: 2♂♂3♀♀, Guizhou, Guiyang, 4 July 1979, coll. Zizhong Li;18♂♂21♀♀, Guizhou, Guiyang, 5 May 1981, coll. Zizhog Li; 6♂♂10♀♀, Guizhou, Guiyang, 14 June 1983, coll. Zizhong Li; 2♂♂, Guizhou, Luodian, 5 June 1983, coll. Zizhong Li; 1♂2♀♀, Guizhou, Yanhe, Lijiaba, 7 June 2007, coll. Hansong Deng; 1♂, Guizhou, Maolan, Banzhai, 23 October 1998, coll. Xiangsheng Chen. 2♂♂, Guizhou, Daozhen, Xiannvdong, 28 May, 2004, coll. Qirong Liao; 7♂♂2♀♀, Guizhou, Ziyun, Getuhe, 24 June 2006, coll. Qiongzhang Song.

B form: 1♂, Guangxi, Damingshan, 15 May 2012, coll. Nanan Yang; 4♂♂4♀♀, Guizhou, Yanhe, Maojiacun, 9 June 2007, coll. Zhengguang Zhang; 2♂♂4♀♀, Guizhou, Xingyi, Muka, 17 May 1982, coll. Tandong Long.

C form: 1♂1♀, Guangxi, Longzhou, 30 May 1997, coll. Maofa Yang; 1♂2♀♀, Guangxi, Daxing, Encheng, 20 June 2012, coll. Weicheng Yang; 1♂9♀♀, Guizhou, Liping, Taipingshan, 16 July 2006, coll. Pei Zhang.

D form: 1♂1♀, Yunnan, Menglun, 28 July 2012, coll. Weicheng Yang.

Disscussion.

Colour polymorphism of Cerynia maria is investigated based on some materials from China, four colour forms are recongnized. The main differences in forewings with red markings or not, and apex of aedeagus dorsal processes bent or straight and number of its apical margin with spines.

Exploration of the molecular analysis (barcoding) about the species Cerynia maria is required but is not done so here because we did not succeed the genes about four colour forms of this species.

The geograghic distribution of Cerynia maria from China indicates that this species is mainly distributed in South China (Fig. 10). From our study materials from China show that three forms (A, B and C) distributed in Guizhou Province, B form and C form distributed in Guangxi Autonomous Region, and only D form found in Yunnan Province. However, it is highly likely that there are undiscovered forms in Fujian, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi and others Provinces from China.