Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker)

Xue, Qingquan, Mckamey, Stuart H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2017, Taxonomic revision of the Malaysian Idiocerinae (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), with description of new taxa, Zootaxa 4226 (3), pp. 405-428 : 415

Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker)

( Figs. 6 , 14 )

Bythoscopus cephalotes Walker, 1857: 174 .

Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) ; Ghauri, 1985a: 44, figs. 1–15.

Material examined. 10♂♂ 5 ♀♀, Malaysia, Sandakan, coll. Baker ( USNM).

Remarks. This species is sexually dimorphic in color, with males having dark brown markings on the lora and lateral margin of the frontoclypeus and anteclypeus; females have the face uniformly yellowish. Males also have the anteclypeus distinctly swollen and much broader compared to that of the female.

Figures

FIGURE 6. Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) A, habitus of male, dorsal view; B, habitus of male, lateral view; C, head and thorax of male, dorsal view; D, face of male; E, head and thorax of female, dorsal view; F, face of female; G, habitus of female, dorsal view; H, habitus of female, lateral view; I, first valvulae; J, second valvulae; K, female genitalia, ventral view.

FIGURE 14. Namiocerus cephalotes (Walker) A, male pygofer, anal tube and subgenital plate, lateral view; B, connective, ventral view; C, connective, lateral view; D, aedeagus, lateral view; E, aedeagus, ventral view; F, style, lateral view.