Persis Stal 1862

Genus Persis Stål, 1862 Type species: Persis pugnax Stål, 1862; by original designation. Persis Stål, 1862: 7; 1866: 193; 1869: 99; Muir, 1913: 32; 1918a: 416; 1918b: 231; Metcalf, 1938: 326; 1945: 90; Caldwell, 1944: 106, Pl. I, Figs 7A–C; Fennah 1952: 127, 138; O’Brien 1982: 319; Bartlett et al. 2014: 25. Subgenus Persis Stål, 1862: 7 (as genus). Type species Persis pugnax Stål, 1862, by original designation. Subgenus Anapersis Fennah, 1952: 140. Type species Neocenchrea gregaria Fennah 1945, by original designation. Subgenus Eritalaena Fennah, 1952: 142. Type species: Persis fuscinervis Muir, 1918: 417, by original designation and monotypy. Diagnosis. Head produced beyond eyes (Figs 1A–H); vertex and frons concave, compressed, with raised lateral carinae bearing a row of pits, median carina absent (Figs 2A–F), transverse carina present between vertex and frons (Figs 2E, 3E, 4B). Antennae short; pedicel spheroid, about as long as wide (Figs 1B, D, F, H). Pronotum short, narrow, and posteriorly concave (Figs 2B, D, F, 5E). Forewing elongate, surpassing abdomen (Figs 1A, C, E, G, 3A, D, 4A, D, 5A, B), with pustules on ScP+R and Pcu veins; clavus closed (Fig. 5F). Male with medioventral process on pygofer present (Figs 6A–C). Female with medioventral process on sternite VII (Figs 8A–C). Key to subgenera of Persis and species of Persis (Anapersis) Fennah (except P. (A.) spreta (Fowler)) 1 Paradiscal region of pronotum greatly foliate, forming antennal foveae behind the eyes (Figs 1B, F, H, 2A, E)............ 2 - Paradiscal region of pronotum not greatly foliate, not forming antennal fovea behind the eyes (Figs 1D, 2C)............................................................................................ Persis (Eritalaena) Fennah 2 Head produced beyond the eyes by a distance greater than eye width; acutely angulate in profile (Fig. 1B). Persis (Persis) Stål - Head produced beyond the eyes by a distance not greater than eye width; obtusely angulate (Fig. 1F), or rounded in profile (Fig. 1H)......................................................................... 3 (Persis (Anapersis) Fennah) 3 Demarcation line between vertex and frons not forming an obtuse angle in profile (Fig. 1H)............................4 - Demarcation line between vertex and frons forming an obtuse angle in profile (Fig. 1F)............................. 5 4 Black band covering lateral carinae of vertex and frons (Figs 5C, D); pronotum with two black spots (Figs 5A–E)................................................................................................ takiyae sp. nov. - Black band absent on vertex and frons (Figs 4D, E); pronotum without black spots (Fig. 4D)........... pallidovenosa Stål 5 Pronotum with four black spots (Fig. 3A)........................................................ ferox O’ Brien - Pronotum without black spots (Figs 3D, 4A, D)............................................................. 6 6 Forewing bicolored (Fig. 4A)............................................................. arizonensis O’ Brien - Forewing unicolored (Figs 1E, 3D)....................................................................... 7 7 Lateral carinae divergent toward clypeus (Fig. 2E); ventral region of posterior margin of female pregenital sternite (Sternite VII) with semicircular apex.................................................................. gregaria Fennah - Lateral carinae subparallel toward clypeus (Fig. 3E); ventral region of posterior margin of female pregenital sternite (Sternite VII) with triangular apex…............................................................... pallescens Metcalf