Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål) Stal, 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 : 227

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.5613379

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A5742D-FFCF-AE10-FF76-A835CEA7FCF2

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Plazi

scientific name

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål)
status

comb. nov.

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål) , comb.nov.

Lepyronia punctatissima Stål, 1862: 15 View in CoL .

Balsa punctatissima: Lallemand 1912: 54 View in CoL .

Balsana punctatissima: Metcalf [and Wade] 1962 View in CoL : 192.

Diagnosis. Resembling T. olivieri , but with aedeagal processes.

Description. Crown black; rest of body and tegmina dark brown except for pale, oblique stripes across bases of tegmina, a few small, discal pale spots, and pale tegminal tips. Head in profile with frons angulate. Male pygofer low, 2× as long as high; subgenital plates with simple hooked tips; theca with bulbous base, weakly curved shaft armed with 2 pairs of slender, retrorse processes arising from sides of gonopore and extending a quarter length of shaft ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B). Length: male 3.9 mm, female 3.8 mm.

Types. Lectotype male, here designated, BRAZIL: ( Westerman ); bearing Stål's handwritten identification tag . Paralectotype female, [ BRAZIL]: Rio [de] Jan [eiro]. Both types in NRSE .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cercopidae

Genus

Tomaspisinella

Loc

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål)

Andrew Hamilton, K. G. 2016
2016
Loc

Balsana punctatissima:

Metcalf 1962: 192
1962
Loc

punctatissima:

Lallemand 1912: 54
1912
Loc

Lepyronia punctatissima Stål, 1862 : 15

Stal 1862: 15
1862
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