Pariaconus haumea Percy

Percy, Diana M., 2017, Making the most of your host: the Metrosideros-feeding psyllids (Hemiptera, Psylloidea) of the Hawaiian Islands, ZooKeys 649, pp. 1-163 : 62-65

Pariaconus haumea Percy sp. n. Figure 30

Adult colour.

General body colour yellow to pale brown. Fore wing membrane clear or slightly fuscous.

Adult structure.

Fore wing apex bluntly acute to almost rounded; surface spinules sparsely distributed, absent from r1 and c+sc; short to minute setae on margins and veins (Fig. 30A). Antennae very short (length 0.55; ratio AL:HW 1.24); genal processes short (ratio VL:GP 2.00) and rounded apically; short setae on vertex and thorax; distal proboscis segment very short (length 0.06); hind tibia slender, length subequal to head width (ratio HW:HT 1.04) (Fig. 30 B–C, F–G). Male terminalia (Fig. 30 D–E): paramere shorter than proctiger (ratio MP:PL 1.12), broad at base and tapering to a short neck below an apex with anteriorly directed hook; distal aedeagus segment longer than paramere (ratio PL:AEL av. 0.92) with base angular and inflated, and a large hooked apex (ratio AEL:AELH av. 2.18).

Egg.

Unknown.

Immature.

Unknown.

Host plant notes.

Collected from glabrous forest tree.

Island.

Kauai.

Distribution notes.

Only known location is Alakai, Kokee State Park, in forest near Alakai bog area.

Biology.

Unknown.

Etymology.

Named after Haumea in Hawaiian mythology, the Hawaiian goddess of fertility and mother of Pele (noun in the nominative singular standing in apposition to the generic name).

Comments.

Known from only one male specimen; the distinctly shaped male paramere is not found in other species; morphologically it appears most closely related to Pariaconus lehua .

Type material.

Holotype male (slide mounted, BMNH). See Table 2 for details of type material examined for this study.