Monecphora sipolisi ( Fallou, 1890 ),

Carvalho, Gervásio Silva, Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Webb, Michael D., 2016, Two new species of the Neotropical spittlebug genus Monecphora Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with key and notes of species of the genus, Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 143-152: 150

Monecphora sipolisi ( Fallou, 1890)  Edit

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Sphenorhina sipolisi Fallou, 1890: 352  Edit .

Monecphora sipolisi  Edit ; Carvalho & Webb, 2005: 78, fig. 363 (lateral habitus).

Material examined. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais: 1 female, Passa Quatro ( FIOC); 1 female, Minas Gerais ( BMNH); Rio Grande do Sul: 1 female, Cerro Azul ( MAPA); 1 female (no locality) Fry coll. 1905. 100 ( BMNH).

Remarks. The specimen from Minas Gerais ( BMNH) lacks the yellow band on the pronotum of other specimens and the other BMNH specimen is smaller (10mm) than other specimens. The syntype (s) from Brazil ( MNHN) could not be found in Fallou’s collection ( MNHN). According to the pin holes under the specimen name in the collection (pers. com. Adeline Soulier-Perkins) one or more specimens were present at some time in the past.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 17. Monecphora species, dorsal habitus and genitalia. 10 – 14. Monecphora machadoi sp. nov. (male paratype); 10. dorsal habitus; 11. male pygofer and subgenital plate, lateral view; 12. paramere, external lateral view; 13. aedeagus, lateral view; 14. aedeagus, posterior view; 15. M. nigritarsis; 16. M. semilutea; 17. M. sipolisi. Scale bars = 1 mm.