Acutalis variabilis

Marino, Ana M., Lenicov, De Remes, Mariani, Roxana, Scelsio, Natalia & Gutierrez, Alejandra, 2010, Membracidae types (Hemiptera-Membracoidea) housed at the Museo de La Plata entomological collection (Argentina), Zootaxa 2566, pp. 21-38 : 27

variabilis , Acutalis Berg

( Figs. 1–3 )

1879. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, VIII, 244.

Syntypes (2), male and female, MLP no. 1746/1-2; Argentina, Buenos Aires; date and collector unknown. Syntype, female, MLP no. 1746/3; Banda Oriental; date and collector unknown.

Remarks: The specimens labelled as “ typus ” by Berg, here are considered as syntypes (ICZN, art. 73.2.1).

This species was synonymized with Micrutalis ephippium (Burmeister, 1836) by Funkhouser (1927: 218).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Subfamily Darninae. 1 – 3, Acutalis variabilis Berg. Syntype male 1746 / 1: 1, lateral view; 2, frontal view. Syntype female 1746 / 2: 3, lateral view; 4 – 6, Darnis “ amangosi ” Berg. Syntype female 1747 / 1: 4, lateral view; 5, frontal view; 6, dorsal view; 7 – 8, Darnis (Stictopelta) luisae Berg. Syntype female 1748 / 1: 7, lateral view; 8, frontal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.