Fernandea conradti Melichar, 1912

Song, Zhi-Shun, Malenovský, Igor & Liang, Ai-Ping, 2016, Revision of the Afrotropical genus Fernandea Melichar, 1912 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae), with description of a new species from Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 4139 (1), pp. 106-116 : 110-113

Fernandea conradti Melichar, 1912

( Figs 1 A, B, 2A, C, 3, 4)

Fernandea conradti Melichar, 1912: 53 , Pl. 2, Figs 18, 19; Schmidt 1915: 349; Metcalf 1946: 48; Fennah 1958: 55; Lallemand 1958: 224.

Redescription. Body length (from apex of head to tip of forewings): ♂ 7.5 mm, ♀ 7.7–7.9 mm; head length (from apex to base of eyes): ♂ 0.9 mm, ♀ 0.9–1.0 mm; head width (including eyes): ♂ 1.3 mm, ♀ 1.3–1.4 mm; vertex width: ♂ 0.4 mm, ♀ 0.4 mm; forewing length: ♂ 5.6 mm, ♀ 6.0– 6.4 mm.

General color brownish ochraceous marked with pale green, reddish ochraceous, and black in dorsal habitus. Head pale green to brownish ochraceous, a pair of small spots on vertex between eyes, vertex midline, head apex, preocular field and a small spot between antenna and eye all blackish brown. Frons with lateral and median carinae pale green, broad area between carinae reddish ochraceous. Clypeus dark brown, narrow transverse fascia at base greenish yellow. Pronotum redish ochraceous, median and intermediate carinae, lateral marginal areas, and paranotal lobes widely yellowish green, areas behind eyes narrowly and lateral margins of paranotal lobes more widely blackish brown. Mesonotum redish ochraceous, broad median and lateral carinae, and lateral marginal areas yellowish green, a pair of small spots near lateral marginal areas blackish brown. Forewings with membrane coriaceous but translucent, mostly brown, a small oval patch subapically and a small streak at costal margin medially hyaline, venation pale green; hind wings hyaline, venation dull ochraceous. Thorax beneath fuscous. Legs pale to dark brown; fore femora fuscous, apex and a pair of triangular spots on lateral margins in distal third bright white to pale green, subapical depression on the inner ventral surface and corresponding bulge on dorsal surface blackish brown; hind tibiae yellowish green, with base and apex including lateral and apical spines fuscous. Abdomen dorsally testaceous mixed with fuscous, a broad central stripe and a lateral stripe on each side dark brown; ventrally piceous, with numerous yellowish spots around sensory pits.

Male terminalia with pygofer narrow and elongate, slightly wider ventrally than dorsally (about 1.5:1); posterior margin distinctly convex subapically in lateral view ( Fig. 3 E). Aedeagus ( Fig. 3 G–I) large and robust, with a pair of long endosomal processes curved in middle and directed dorsad, apex acute and pigmented; phallobase sclerotized and pigmented at base and laterally, the remainder membranous, with large and inflated lobes: one pair of dorsolateral lobes cylindrical, incurved dorsad, apex with numerous small and short spines; the other pair of ventral lobes tapering and directed dorsad. Segment X large and broad in dorsal view ( Fig. 3 D), ratio of length to width near middle about 1.3:1.

Female terminalia ( Fig. 4 A–F) as in generic description.

Type material examined. Lectotype ♀, here designated, [ EQUATORIAL GUINEA]: Fernando Po [= Bioko], Sa. Isabel [= Malabo] V.; F conradti [Melichar’s handwriting], det. Melichar.; Typus [dark red label]; Fernandea ♀ conradti sp. n., L. Melichar, 1912, Syntypus, P. Lauterer det. 1991 [Lauterer’s handwriting]; Syn- typus [bright red label]; Collectio Dr. L. Melichar, Moravské museum Brno; Invent. č. 4944/Ent., Mor. muzeum, Brno; Lectotype ♀, Fernandea conradti Melichar, 1912 , desig. Z.S. Song, I. Malenovský & A.P. Liang, 2015 [newly added yellow label] ( MMBC).

Paralectotype, here designated, [ EQUATORIAL GUINEA]: 1♀, Fernando Po [Bioko], Conradt; Fernandea conradti M. [Melichar’s handwriting]; type [red label]; Paralectotype ♀, Fernandea conradti Melichar, 1912 , desig. Z.S. Song, I. Malenovský & A.P. Liang, 2015 [newly added yellow label] ( MZPW).

Other material examined. [ CAMEROON]: 1♂, Kamerun, Conradt; Coll. Kraatz; Transcriptio, Fernandea Ƌ conradti Melichar, L. Melichar det. 1912 [Lauterer’s handwriting]; Collectio Dr. L. Melichar, Moravské museum Brno; Není členem typo- vé série [= the specimen is not part of the type series; Lauterer’s handwriting], P. Lauterer 1991 ( MMBC); 1♀, Kamerun, Conradt; Typus [dark red label]; F. conradti [Melichar’s handwriting] det.

Melichar.; Transcriptio Fernandea ♀ conradti Melichar, L. Melichar det. 1912 [Lauterer’s handwriting]; Collectio Dr. L. Melichar, Moravské museum Brno; Není členem typové série [= the specimen is not part of the type series; Lauterer’s handwriting], P. Lauterer 1991 ( MMBC); 1♀, Kamerun, Jaun de-Stat., 800 m, Zenker ( MFNB); 1♀, Kamerun, Victoria, Preuss ( MFNB). [ TOGO]: 1♀, Togo, Bismarckburg, L. Conradt ( MFNB); 1♀, Togo, Misahdhe, 1894, E. Baumann; Fernandea conradti Melichar, H. Synave det. [Synave’s handwriting] ( MFNB).

Distribution. Material has been revised from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Togo. The species was also recorded for the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( Fennah 1958) and Guinea ( Lallemand 1958).

Remarks. In the original description, Melichar (1912) mentions two specimens from Fernando Po (= Bioko island), collected by H. Conradt and deposited in his personal collection as the type series. We found one female specimen with the corresponding label data in Melichar’s personal collection in MMBC and the other one female in MZPW which agrees with the note published by Schmidt (1915). According to Article 74 of ICZN (1999) we designate the specimen from MMBC as a lectotype for F. conradti to stabilize the nomenclature in the genus.

Two additional specimens (one male and one female) collected by Conradt in Cameroon and deposited in Melichar personal collection in MMBC obviously belong to F. conradti ; both bear Melichar original identification labels though they were not mentioned in his monograph and are not part of the type series (cf. Melichar 1912). We have described and illustrated the male terminalia based on the male specimen from Cameroon.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Habitus of Fernandea species. A. F. conradti, lectotype, female, dorsal view; B. F. conradti, lectotype, female, lateral view; C. F. latifemorata sp. nov., holotype, male, dorsal view.

FIGURE 3. Fernandea conradti. A. Head, pronotum and mesonotum, dorsal view; B. Head and pronotum, lateral view; C. Head and pronotum, ventral view; D. Segment X and pygofer, dorsal view; E. Pygofer, gonostyles, and segment X, lateral view; F. Pygofer and gonostyles, ventral view; G. Aedeagus, dorsal view; H. Aedeagus, lateral view; I. Aedeagus, ventral view.

FIGURE 4. Fernandea conradti. A. Female terminalia and ectodermal genital ducts, lateral view; B. Female genitalia, ventral view; C. Gonapophysis VIII, dorsolateral view; D. Gonapophysis IX, ventral view; E. Gonoplacs, lateral view; F. Female segment X, dorsal view.