Monecphora cingulata ( Le Peletier & Serville, 1825 )

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 : 146

Monecphora cingulata ( Le Peletier & Serville, 1825)

( Figures 7–8 )

Cercopis cingulata Le Peletier & Serville, 1825: 606 .

Monecphora cingulata ; Amyot & Serville, 1843: 562.

= Monecphora soligena Walker, 1858: 177 (syn. apud Stål, 1862: 493); Metcalf, 1961: 225.

Tomaspis (T.) cingulata ; Lallemand, 1912: 91.

Monecphora cingulata ; Metcalf, 1961: 224 –225; Carvalho & Webb, 2005: 77, fig. 193 (male genitalia) (not 194, error in legend), 664 (lateral habitus)

Material examined. BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: syntypes of M. soligena : 1 female “ Type ”, “Petropolis/ Feb. 1857 / J. Gray” ( BMNH); 1 male, 2 females, 1 specimen, Petropolis ( BMNH); 2 males, Floresta da Tijuca, XI.1957, M. Alvarenga ( DZUP); 1 male, Teresópolis, 2–5.XII.1958, Martinez, Werner, Alvarenga & Seabra ( DZUP); Paraná: 2 females, Barras do Paraná, 19–27.II.1993, A. Bonaldo ( MCTP); Santa Catarina: 1 male, Chapecó, 15.IX.1198, Garcia, F.R. ( MCTP); Rio Grande do Sul: 8 males, Cerro Largo, I.1931, Pe. Buck ( MAPA); 1 male, Rondinha, I.1997, Rupollo, G. ( MCTP); 6 males, Rondinha, 26.I.2001, Specht, A. ( MCTP). ARGENTINA: Misiones: 2 males 1 female, Missiones (32 km SE Alcazar), 04.I.2008, Gonçalves, A. C. ( MCTP); several specimens (males and females), various localities and dates ( BMNH).

Remarks. In Carvalho & Webb (2005, p. 213), the figures of this species should be 193, not 194 (error in legend).

Figures

FIGURES 7 – 9. Monecphora species, dorsal habitus and detail of third antennal segment. 7 – 8. M. cingulata; 9. M. fryi (lectotype female). Scale bars = 1 mm.