Philotheria rochetii (Guérin-Méneville 1849)
Head process short, slender and upturned. Wings hyaline with variable brown pattern at the apex (either a large brown spot from Sc+R to the apex, passing through the stigma and filling the external apical angle of the elytron; or the cross veins infuscated with dark brown, the spots strongly confluent, forming a dark band on the posterior edge, with light marginal spots in the apical cells). Total length: 8.5mm.
Original description & illustrations in:
Guérin-Méneville F. E. 1849. Famille des Cicadaires in Partie entomologiques. In: Lefebvre A. 1849. Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 et 1843, 6. p. 243-398.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78978#page/108/mode/1up
Fig. 8: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/181821#page/73/mode/1up
Illustration of wing in:
Synave, H. 1965. Dictyopharidae (Homoptera Fulgoroidea).Exploration of Garamba National Park, Mission H. de Saeger (1954-1968):
https://cd.chm-cbd.net/archives_rdc/archives/publications/exploration-parc-national-de-la-garamba/mission-h-de-saeger-1954-1968/1965-fascicule-47-dictyopharidae-homoptera-fulgoroidea/fasc47-synave1965_complet.pdf
First description translated from Latin & French:
Pale brown, with slender beak, short, thorax bi-carinulate, elytra hyaline, apex areolate, brownish, especially on the anterior margin.
Pale yellowish brown: cephalic protuberance slender, not very elongated, a little compressed on the sides, above hollowed out like a gutter; below yellow. Thorax marked with three small keels, the median one more prominent on the prothorax. Elytra much longer than the abdomen, transparent, with the apex slightly reticulated and infuscated with brown on the anterior edge. Legs slender, hind tibiae armed with 5 teeth, the last one very strong.
Description by Stål (Pseudophana caffra) in:
Stål C. 1855. Hemiptera fran Kafferlandet. Ofversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 12.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15969839#page/103/mode/1up
Redescriptions in:
Stål, C. 1866. Hemiptera Africana, vol 4.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/35350#page/371/mode/1up
Description in:
Melichar, L. 1912. Monographie der Dictyophorinen (Homoptera). Abhandlungen der K. K. Zool.-Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien. Vol 7.
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5566456#page/145/mode/1up
Photo of specimen in the AMNH:
https://research.amnh.org/pbi/specimen/specimen/image_folder0000024/AMNH_IZC%2000300394.jpg
Distribution: South Africa, Namibia, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
iNat observation:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197044713
(This journal article has benefited enormously from contributions made by @psyllidhipster - thank you very much!)
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