Tectiforma guayasensis, McKamey, 2023

McKamey, Stuart H., 2023, Three new monobasic genera and three new species of the New World treehopper tribe Acutalini (Hemiptera, Membracidae, Smiliinae) with a key to all genera, ZooKeys 1143, pp. 189-203 : 189

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1143.94124

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B53AD603-8F90-4A3A-82E1-30BE552A060A

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/241E811B-A3B3-4CEC-B68B-579231660AFC

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:241E811B-A3B3-4CEC-B68B-579231660AFC

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scientific name

Tectiforma guayasensis
status

sp. nov.

Tectiforma guayasensis sp. nov.

Figs 32-38 View Figures 32–38 , 39 View Figure 39

Diagnosis.

Same as for genus: slender, pale green, with pronotum strongly tectiform.

Description of male.

Measurements (mm). Length with forewing in repose 6.7; width across humeral angles 2.2; height in anterior view 2.9. Pronotum. As described for genus. Terminalia. Pygofer including lateral plate subquadrate in lateral view (Fig. 35 View Figures 32–38 ); lateral plate large, ovoid, unarmed, bearing setae; styles (Figs 35 View Figures 32–38 , 36 View Figures 32–38 ) simple, distally recurved and acute; aedeagus U-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 38 View Figures 32–38 ), shaft apex with two small posterior spines (Fig. 38 View Figures 32–38 ), anterior surface with 2 columns of 5 larger spines each, inset from swollen lateral margins (most visible in lateral view, Fig. 38 View Figures 32–38 ). Color. Pale green throughout.

Female unknown.

Material examined.

Holotype ♂ (USNM) with labels " ECUADOR: Guayas. | Hac. San Joaquin, | 4 rd km SW Bucay | 1-4 May 1986 250m. ", " S.H. McKamey lot | #86-0501-UV", and a red " HOLOTYPE | Tectiforma | Tectiforma guayasensis | S.H. McKamey ".

Distribution.

Ecuador.

Etymology.

The specific epithet is based on Guayas, the province in which the holotype was collected.

Note.

Collected at an ultraviolet light.