A New Species of the Genus Cofana(Hemiptera : Auchenorrhyncha : Cicadellidae) Associated with a Climbing Vine of Bamboo in Java,Indonesia

Abstract

A new species, Cofana yukawai, collected from Gunung Halimun National Park, West Java, Indosia is described together with its biological information. This species is easily destinguishabke from the other species of Cofana by the markings of head, pronotum, and forewing. The host plant of this species os a tropical clumping high-climbing vine of bamboo, Dinochloa scandens (Blume) (Poaceae). The spatial distribution pattern of C. yukawai was surveyed on a canopy walk that is about 20-25 m high above the ground. Cafana yukawai was more abundant near the canopy and at the marginal area of forest than in the space near theground insede forest.