Muiralyricen pallescens

Metcalf, Z. P., 1946, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea and Jassoidea of Guam, Insects of Guam II, Honolulu, Hawaii: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 189, pp. 105-148 : 116

5. Muiralyricen pallescens , new species (fig. 7, a-c).

A pale species with the tegmina somewhat longer than in ruber ; milky subhyaline in color, clouded with fuscous along the veins and cross veins.

Crown very narrow, deeply incised caudad, projecting for nearly half its length in front of the compound eyes. Frons with the lateral carinae contiguous to the level of the lower margin of· the compound eyes only, then widely separated to the broader clypeal border. Pronotum with the median carina strongly produced, projecting only slightly between the eyes; lateral fields of the pronotum not as large as in ruber . Mesonotum large, median carina very distinct, intermediate carinae indistinct. Tegmina somewhat longer than in r1tber; venation similar.

General color of the body, including the legs and abdomen, light ochraceous buff, more or less covered with a waxy white powder. Compound eyes brown. Tegmina milky subhyaline with an irregular cloud of tawny across the medium area of the corium and a narrower fascia across the apical cross veins; veins and cross veins milky white except in the areas crossed by the tawny cloud where the veins and cross veins are blackish fuscous.

Length: to apex of tegmina, 4.3 mm.

Holotype male, Piti , Sept. 1, Swezey ; allotype female, Piti , Aug. 3, on Ipomoea sp. , Swezey ; paratype, one male, Orote Point, Aug. 2, on Ipomoea sp. , Swezey .