Tomaspisinella

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 225

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B8B067BF-F6E6-4122-B884-AA385FF04421

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613359

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5742D-FFCD-AE12-FF76-AB1ECE1BFC3F

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Plazi

scientific name

Tomaspisinella
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Tomaspisinella View in CoL (s.s.) parva Lallemand , description of male

Diagnosis. Male resembling female but darker, t egmina with a chain of 4 white spots extending from costa to claval suture, most clearly broken in middle.

Description. Male pygofer as in T. (Hemitomaspis) caligata ( Carvalho & Webb 2005, fig. 4e) but slightly longer, in ventral aspect globose, deeply notched medially ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 25 – 35 D); male theca with short, divergent apical processes ( Fig. 28 View FIGURES 25 – 35 C). Length: male 6.8 mm, female 6.5 mm.

Remarks. The female holotype of T. parva from Ecuador has the entire postpedicel densely pitted ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17 – 19 B) in contrast to that of a male ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 17 – 19 A), also from Ecuador: Napo , 6 km E Misahualli, Jatun Sasha Res. 450m, 30 April–8 May 2002 (S.M. Paiero) #debu00178285 in UDEL. This might represent an unrecognized species but might possibly be sexually dimorphic; however, when this occurs in other Cercopoidea it is usually the male rather than the female that has larger and more numerous antennal pits.

UDEL

University of Delaware

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cercopidae

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