Pyrops rogersi ( Distant, 1906 )

Constant, Jérôme & Mohan, Ashwini Venkatanarayana, 1801, The lanternflies from Andaman and Nicobar: one new Pyrops species, new records and illustrated key to the species (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 49, pp. 1-24 : 1-24

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scientific name	Pyrops rogersi ( Distant, 1906 )
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Pyrops rogersi ( Distant, 1906) View in CoL

Figs 3 View Fig , 10 D View Fig , 13 A–C View Fig , 14 View Fig .

Fulgora rogersi DISTANT, 1906: 190 View in CoL [description, key]. Type in BMNH.

Fulgora rogersi View in CoL – SCHMIDT, 1911: 161 [compared with Pyrops peguensis ( Schmidt, 1911) View in CoL ]. — DISTANT, 1914: 409 [compared with Pyrops astarte ( Distant, 1914) View in CoL ]. — LALLEMAND, 1963: 80 [keyed, described, placed in the P. pyrorhyncha group].

Laternaria rogersi – METCALF, 1947 [transferred to Laternaria ; catalogued].

Pyrops rogersi View in CoL – NAGAI & PORION, 1996: 26 [transferred to Pyrops View in CoL ; catalogued], pl. 16 fig. 205 [dorsal aspect]. — LIANG, 1998: 44 [catalogued].

DIAGNOSIS. The species can be separated from all other species of Pyrops by the following combination of characters:

(1) posterior wings blue with apex and area along sutural margin black brown, with brown area paler and narrower towards basosutural angle ( Fig. 3 A View Fig );

(2) cephalic process elongate, curved and narrowing apically ( Fig. 3 C–D View Fig );

(3) head brown-black ( Fig. 3 C–D View Fig );

(4) tegmina with ground colour brown beyond nodal line, contrasting with basal partwith ground colour black and dense reticulum of blue veins and veinlets; white spots dark blue or bluish brown centrally ( Fig. 3 A View Fig ).

MATERIAL EXAMINED.

TYPE MATERIAL. INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands: holotype ♀ ( Fig. 3 View Fig ): [Great Nicobar (Rogers)] [ Fulgora rogersi Dist. Type] [Distant Coll. 1911—383.] [Type] ( BMNH) .

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL. INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands: 1♂ (cephalic process broken at half length): Andaman , Crowley. bequest 1901—78. ( BMNH); 1♂, 1♀ (examined from photographs): Nicobaren, det. E. Schmidt, 1907 ( ZMPA) .

MATERIAL EXAMINED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS IN NATURE. INDIA, Andaman and Nicobar Islands: 2 ex. ( Figs. 10 D View Fig , 13 B View Fig ): Long Island , Lalaji Bay, 27.V.2014, A.V. Mohan ; 1 ex. ( Fig. 13 A View Fig ): North Andaman , 2.IV.2004, K. Wothe ; 2 ex. ( Fig. 13 C View Fig ): Little Andaman , White Surf Waterfall, XII.2007, S. Dhanuka .

SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTION.

Male genitalia: brown with anal tube darker. Pygofer higher than long, with posterior margin broadly rounded in lateral view and a posteroventral lamina projecting posteriorly ( Fig. 14 A– B View Fig ). Gonostyli ( Fig. 14 A–B View Fig ) elongate, 1.78 times longer than high with posterior margin rounded in lateral view, not surpassing apex of anal tube ( Fig. 14 A View Fig ); lateral hooks of gonostyli short, pointing lateroventrally ( Fig. 14 A–B View Fig ). Anal tube elongate ( Fig. 14 A, C View Fig ), 1.27 times longer than broad, broader at 3/4 of total length in dorsal view ( Fig. 14 C View Fig ); lateral margins slightly rounded towards apex and apical margin strongly notched in dorsal view ( Fig. 14 C View Fig ).

DISTRIBUTION. Great Nicobar; Andaman Islands: Long Island and Little Andaman.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Fulgoridae
Genus	Pyrops