14. Gonatopus lucidus (Rohwer, 1920)

(Plate 128E, F)

Digonatopus lucidus Rohwer 1920: 159 .

Chalcogonatopus lucidus (Rohwer): Currado & Olmi 1979: 179.

Gonatopus lucidus (Rohwer): Olmi 1984: 1662; Guglielmino & Olmi 1997: 230.

Description of Female. Apterous; length 3.4 mm. Head brown-reddish, except mandible, clypeus and anterior region of face yellow; antenna brown, except segments 1–2 yellow; mesosoma black; metasoma brown-black; legs yellow, except metacoxa blackened, clubs of femora and meso- and metacoxa brown. Antenna clavate. Head excavated, shiny, unsculptured, with some longitudinal keels on face and vertex; occipital carina absent. Palpal formula 6/3. Pronotum shiny, unsculptured, with disc regularly rounded (not compressed into carina), crossed by strong transverse impression. Scutum shiny, sculptured by some longitudinal keels. Metanotum (Plate 128E) not hollow behind scutellum. Metathorax + propodeum shiny, with anterior surface unsculptured and posterior surface transversely striate. Mesopleuron and metapleuron transversely striate. Meso-metapleural suture distinct, but irregular, not continuous. Protarsal segments in following proportions: 12:3:4:19:28. Enlarged claw (Plate 128F) with one small subapical tooth and six peg-like hairs. Segment 5 of protarsus (Plate 128F) with inner margin proximally not serrated, with two rows 18–19 lamellae; distal apex with about 14 lamellae. Tibial spurs 1/0/1.

Male. Unknown.

Material examined. Type: holotype ♀: INDIA: Bihar, Pusa, 20.IX.1915, reared from a nymph of Nephotettix bipunctatus (Fabricius), C.S. Misra leg. (USNM) .

Hosts. Cicadellidae (Guglielmino & Olmi, 1997): in India: Nephotettix virescens (Distant) (Rohwer, 1920, as Nephotettix bipunctatus (Fabricius)) .

Distribution. India (Bihar).