The Jacoona Assemblage of the Genus Dundubia Amyot & Serville
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Contributions to Zoology, 66 (3) 129-184 (1996) SPB Academic Publishing bv, Amsterdam The the jacoona assemblage of genus Dundubia Amyot & Serville of (Homoptera: Cicadidae): a taxonomic study of its species and a discussion its phylogenetic relationships Paul L.Th. Beuk Institutefor Systematics and Population Biology (Zoological Museum), University ofAmsterdam, Plantage Middenlaan 64, NL-1018 DH Amsterdam, The Netherlands Keywords: Cicadidae, Dundubia, Jacoona assemblage, taxonomy, new species, phylogeny Abstract (Distant, 1888), D. nigripes (Moulton, 1923), et D. Les trois transférées de oopaga (Distant, 1881). espèces sont D. hainanensis 1901), D. na- The species of Orientopsaltria with unicolorous opercula and Platylomia (Distant, three related of transferred the Distant, 1881, et D. Noualhier, 1896. species Platylomia are to genus garasingna spiculata Toutes ces sont redécrites. Quatre nouvelles Dundubia and allocated in the ‘Dundubia jacoona assemblage’ sept espèces décrites: laterocurvata, pending further investigation. The assemblage comprises espèces sont D. ayutthaya, D. D. et D. sont eleven species in total; all are found in the Indo-Malaysian myitkyinensis, sinbyudaw. Sept espèces syno- nymisées: O. andersoni (Distant, avec D. D. Archipelago, Indo-China, and the adjoining parts of China and 1883) oopaga, Liu, 1940 avec D. hainanensis,O. hastata (Moulton, India. The four species which were until now placed in Orient- bifasciata O.1923) et D. siamensis Haupt, 1918 avec D. spiculata, opsaltria are D. feae (Distant, 1892), D. jacoona (Distant, D. and D. (Distant, 1912) et D. helena Distant, 1912 avec D. 1888), nigripes (Moulton, 1923), oopaga (Distant, fratercula et D. Distant, 1917 avec D. Des 1881). The three species transferred from Platylomia are D. nagarasingna, longina feae. lectotypes sont désignés les espèces suivantes: hainanensis (Distant, 1901), D. nagarasingna Distant, 1881, pour Cosmo- andersoni, C. C. C. hastata, C. and D. spiculata Noualhier, 1896. These seven species are all psaltria feae, fratercula, nagarasingna, C. nigripes, C. D. helena, D. longina, et redescribed. Four species are described as new: D. ayutthaya, oopaga, D. Une clé l’identification des mâles D. laterocurvata, D. myitkyinensis, and D. sinbyudaw. Seven spiculata. pour est présentée, et la distribution des est discutée. Sont aussi species are synonymized: O. andersoni (Distant, 1883) with D. espèces discutées les relations du de D. o a D. Liu, 1940 with D. hainanensis, O. ‘groupement jacoona’ avec op ga, bifasciata Dundubia, et avec les restent dans le hastata (Moulton, 1923) and D. siamensis Haupt, 1918 with D. Platylomia, espèces qui Il est fort les du spiculata, O. fratercula (Distant, 1912) and D. helena Distant, genre Orientopsaltria. probable que espèces de D. 1912 with D. nagarasingna, and D. longina Distant, 1917 with ‘groupement jacoona’ ne représentent pas un groupe à elles seules, mais ensemble cel- D. feae. Lectotypes are designated for the following species: monophylétique plutôt avec andersoni, C. C. hastata, C. les de Dundubia s. str. Cosmopsaltria C.feae, fratercula, C. C. D. D. nagarasingna, nigripes, oopaga, helena, longina, and D. spiculata. A key to the males is presented and the distributions of the species are discussed. The relationships of Introduction the D. jacoona assemblage with Dundubia,Platylomia, and the remaining species ofOrientopsaltria are discussed. The species The present paper the identities and ofthe D. jacoona assemblage most likely do not form a mono- investigates their but rather with Dundubia of the of phyletic group on own s. str. relationships species Orientopsaltria Kato, 1944, with unicolorous opercula and related in the Dundubia species genera Amyot & Serville, Résumé 1843, and Platylomia Stal, 1870. These species are ' transferred to Dundubia and the ‘Dundubia Les d’ ainsi ja- àespèces Orientopsaltria opercules unicolores, que trois de transférées coona is introduced to accommodate espèces apparentées Platylomia sont au assemblage' Dundubia et placées dans le ‘groupement de Dundubia them. The mentioned to the cicada genre genera belong jacoona’ en attendant le résultat de recherches ultérieures. Le subtribe Dundubiaria of the tribe Dundubiini to- groupement comprend en total onze espèces à distribution dans gether with Macrosemia Kato, 1925, Meimuna l’Archipel Indo-Malais, en Indochine, et dans les zones limi- 1905, Dis- de Chine d’Inde. Les Distant, 1905, Haphsa Distant, Ayesha trophes et quatre espèces jusqu’à présent and 1905 & placées dans Orientopsaltria sont D. feae (Distant, 1892), jacoonaD. tant, 1905, Khimbya Distant, (Duffels Downloaded from Brill.com10/05/2021 05:34:51PM via free access 130 P.L.Th. Beuk - Thejacoona assemblage of the genus Dundubia Van der Laan, 1985). This subtribe is distributed Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam), Peninsular of Asia. and Sumatra. None of the throughout a large part Southeast Malaysia, Borneo, erected records in the literature from the Andaman and The genus Orientopsaltria was by Kato (1944a) to accommodate species of Cosmopsaltria Nicobar Islands, south-eastern China, and Japan that from other of that could be confirmed. Stal, 1866, differed species yet in rounded instead of The closest relatives of the D. genus having spine-like jacoona assem- the Oriento- the of Dundubia lateral pygofer lobes. In description blage are among species s. str. with psaltria was only compared Cosmopsaltria [constituted by Dundubia vaginata (Fabricius, with number of other that also and not a genera 1787), the type species ofDundubia, and relatives] rounded lateral Dundubia and the formed radha have pygofer lobes, e.g. group by Platylomia (Dis- and Platylomia. Duffels (1983) formally redefined tant, 1881) and relatives. Cosmopsaltria and transferred all Cosmopsaltria species with rounded lateral pygofer lobes to Material and methods Orientopsaltria, but he did not define Oriento- psaltria in relation to other genera with rounded References in the literature to species treated below were lateral pygofer lobes either. checked whenever possible. Older references weretraced using Overmeer & Duffels historic (1967) gave an Metcalf (1963a, b) and Duffels & Van der Laan (1985). overview of the of the References could not checked marked with composition genus that be are an Dundubia and revised all in the asterisk species placed ge- (*). The following abbreviations have been used for collections nus at the time. A phylogenetic analysis was not mentioned in the descriptions: and the of the performed monophyly genus was BMNH Natural History Museum, London (formerly British assumed implicitly by treating it as a whole. Museum Natural History) Overmeer & Duffels noted the shared feature of BPBM Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu the rounded lateral pygofer lobes of Orientopsal- CUIC Cornell University Insect Collection,Department of Cornell York and Entomology, University, Ithaca, New tria Dundubia and suggested a close relation- MCZ Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Uni- between both The mainfeature dis- ship genera. to versity, Cambridge, Massachusetts between the two genera was tinguish supposedly MNP Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris of fuscous the the presence spots on tegmina in MSNG Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 'G. Doria', Genova Orientopsaltria and the absence of such spots in NLHD Niedersachsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover Dundubia. NHMW Naturhistorisches Museum, Wien RMNH Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (formerly After Duffels (1983) transferred to Orientopsal- Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), Leiden tria the species with rounded lateral pygofer lobes ROME Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto that were until then in he placed Cosmopsaltria, SEM Snow Entomological Museum, Lawrence, Kansas TARI Taiwan Research distinguished two groups in Orientopsaltria. One Agricultural Institute, Taichung UKMS Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor group was characterized by unicolorous opercula USNM Unites States National Museum, Smithsonian and bi- multi- a globose head, the other by or Institution, Washington D.C. colorous and a less head. The opercula globose UZMK Universitets Zoologiske Museum, Kjabenhavn of the first resemble of species group many species ZMA Zoologisch Museum, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam Dundubia and some species of the diverse genus ' Platylomia. The ‘Dundubia jacoona assemblage' The following geographical sources have been consulted: is created to accommodate these species awaiting 'Andrees allgemeiner Handatlas' (Anonymous, 1906), 'Atlas further research on the distinction between generic Nederland' van Tropisch (Anonymous, 1938), 'The Times and which Orientopsaltria, Dundubia, Platylomia Atlas of the World' (Anonymous, 1994), 'Chambers World is presently still unclear. Gazetteer' (Munro, 1988), 'Nelles Road Atlas Indonesia' (Ano- 'Nelles Road Atlas Southeast Dundubia nymous, 1992a), Asia excluding The jacoona assemblage at present Indonesia' (Anonymous, 1992b), 'Thailand, Indochina & comprises eleven species (including four new), Burma Handbook' (Eliot et al., 1994), and GEOnet Names Ser- distributed with in northern certainty India, Bang- of ver the U.S. Defence Mapping Agency (WWW URL: http:// south-western ladesh, China, Indo-China (Burma, www.dma.gov/gns/html/index.html). Downloaded from Brill.com10/05/2021 05:34:51PM via free access 131 Contributions to Zoology, 66 (3) - 1996 D. the D. Arrows in illustrations point to certain important features myitkyinensis n. sp.), jacoona group (D. or of the text. and