Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) oliveirai, Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 226-227

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B8B067BF-F6E6-4122-B884-AA385FF04421

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613369

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5742D-FFCC-AE10-FF76-AC29CCC1FEC5

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Plazi

scientific name

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) oliveirai
status

sp. nov.

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) oliveirai n. sp.

Diagnosis. Combining the pygofer or T. punctatissima with the strongly curved, unarmed theca of T, pallidiceps .

Description. Head black, body and tegmina dark brown, unmarked. Head in profile with frons convex, weakly angulate. Subgenital plates with avicephaliform tips; theca slender throughout, sickle-shaped, unarmed ( Fig. 31 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A– B). Length: male 3.2–3.5 mm; female unknown.

Types. Holotype male, BRAZIL: Minas Gerais ─ Santa Barbara, Caraca , Jan. 1970 (F.M. Oliveira); BM 1971- 165 in BMNH . Paratypes: 4 males, same data; mounted in pairs. Two paratypes in BMNH ; 2 paratypes No. 24227 in CNCI.

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) pallidiceps sp. nov.

Etymology. pallidus (adj.), wan; ceps (n.), head.

Diagnosis. Head including eyes ivory, paler than brown body.

Description. Shiny, hairless; face receding; legs and dorsum brown; venter and tegmina blackish brown; tegmina 2× as long as wide. Male pygofer short, dorsal and ventral surfaces diverging caudad ( Fig. 32 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B); subgenital plates curving dorsad at tips, in ventral aspect evenly tapered to pointed tips, separated by narrow slit extending nearly halfway to base of segment (as in fig. 29D); styles fused to phallobase, minutely setose on dorsal angle; theca long, unarmed, almost as strongly curved as in T. oliveirai . Length: male 3.2 mm; female unknown.

Type. Holotype male, ECUADOR: Orellana ─ Estacion Cientifica Yasuni , 17 Oct. 2003 (M.H. Evans) in flight intercept trap; in ILNHS.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cercopidae

Genus

Tomaspisinella

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