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

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 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 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.

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 35. Neaenini, Menytes (25) and Tomaspisinella (26 – 35): 25 A – B, genital capsule and genitalia of Menytes lathrius, lateral aspect; 25 C, same, tip of theca in caudal aspect; 25 D, subgenital plates, ventral aspect; 26, head and thorax of Tomaspisinella (s. s.) caligata; 27, same, of T. (Ovotomaspis) minuscula; 28 – 35, Tomaspisinella spp., with genital capsule and style (A), aedeagus in lateral aspect (B), tip of aedeagus in caudal aspect (C), subgenital plates in ventral aspect (D): 28, T. (s. s.) parva; 29, T. (s. s.) lucifer; 30, T. (Meretricula) punctatissima; 31, T. (Meretricula) oliveirai; 32, T. (Meretricula) pallidiceps; 33, T. (Ovotomaspis) diabolus sp. nov.; 34, T. (Merinx) jocosa; 35, T. (Merinx) bolivari. Only genital illustrations to scale, with 28 C and 35 at larger scale than others, as indicated by scale lines.