Signoretia greeni Distant

Viraktamath, C. A. & Webb, M. D., 2016, Review of the genus Signoretia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Signoretiinae) of the Oriental region with description of nine new species, Zootaxa 4193 (3), pp. 486-516 : 490

Signoretia greeni Distant

Figs 12, 13 , 68 .

Signoretia greeni Distant 1908: 223 , fig. 147.

Material examined. SRI LANKA: Lectotype ♀ (here designated) , Ceylon, Maskeliya , Green ( BMNH) . Remarks. Distant described this species from an unspecified number of specimens collected from “Ceylon, Maskeliya”.

Among the species of Signoretia occurring on the Indian subcontinent, this species can be easily recognised by its chocolate brown dorsum with median ochraceous stripe on the head and thorax and also by the angular projection on the clypellus in profile ( Fig. 68 ). S. sumatrana is also a chocolate brown coloured species but differs from S. greeni in lacking the median pale stripe on head and pronotum.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 15. Habitus of species of Signoretia. 1 – 4. S. aureola Distant: 1 – 2. Type, female; 3 – 4, Male from Hunli; 5. S. benguetensis Baker, syntype; 6. S. bilineata Baker, syntype; 7. S. carinata Baker, syntype; 8 – 11. S. dulitensis sp. nov., holotype and paratype; 12 – 13. S. greeni Distant, holotype; 14 – 15. S. lunglei sp. nov., holotype. Figs 1, 3, 6 – 8, 10, 12, 14. Dorsal aspect; Figs 2, 4, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15, lateral aspect.

FIGURES 66 – 79. Profile of head and thorax of species of Signoretia. 66. S. aureola Distant; 67. S. dulitensis sp. nov.; 68. S. greeni Distant; 69. S. lunglei sp. nov.; 70 – 71. S. maculata Baker; 72. S. mishmiensis sp. nov.; 73. S. quoinensis sp. nov.; 74. S. rubra sp. nov.; 75 – 76. S. sahyadrica sp. nov.; 77. S. similaris sp. nov. 78. S. sinuata sp. nov.; 79. S. takiyae sp. nov.