Microclimax luteosignata (Valdés Ragués) Valdes Ragues, 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 : 210-211

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613288

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scientific name

Microclimax luteosignata (Valdés Ragués)
status

comb. nov.

Microclimax luteosignata (Valdés Ragués) , comb.nov., description of male.

Tomaspis luteosignatus Valdés Ragués, 1910:445 View in CoL .

Neanus luteosignatus: Metcalf and Bruner, 1944:111 View in CoL .

Description. Orange-brown, abdomen reddish, crown with median brown spot in female, black stripe in male; pronotum with black spots in female, in male a black transverse bar on anterior margin, posterior three-fourths brown; scutellum brown with 2 white spots; tegmina brown, each marked with 5 white spots on basal two-thirds and 2 dark brown blotches near tip (male in Fig. 2 View FIGURES 1 – 8 A; female in Carvalho & Webb (2005, figs 815–816). Length: male 11–13.2 mm, female 10–12 mm.

Type. Holotype female, CUBA: num. 325; in Gunlach Collection, Havana (fide Metcalf and Bruner 1944), examined by Metcalf.

Other specimens: CUBA: 1 male, Holguín Prov., Estación Ecológica , 20.48613°N, 75.79152°W, 656m, 10 May 2013 (A.B.T. Smith, R. Anderson, G. Zhang) MV lights, in CNCI GoogleMaps ; 1 male, L.V. Prov., Topes do Collantes , Sierre de Trinidad, 11 June 1959 (M.V. Sanderson) C59-26 at light, in ILNHS ; 1 female, same locality, 640 m, S.C., 15 Sept. [18]91 (A.R. Otero) no. 11.113, in NCSU. The female is apparently the single specimen mentioned by Metcalf and Bruner (1944) although the size given by them (12 mm) is much larger than that of the female specimen examined (10.4 mm) and the reported size of the type (10 mm).

Remarks. Although the sample size is small, this appears to be one of the few Auchenorrhyncha in which males are distinctly larger than macropterous females. The only previous reported case in Cercopoidea ( Paladini 2011) is based on a submacropterous female in which the tegmina are abbreviated and the hindwings absent whereas the male is macropterous.

Carvalho, G. S. & Webb, M. D. (2005) Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae). Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 271 pp.

Metcalf, Z. P. & Bruner, S. C. (1944) Notes and descriptions of the Cercopidae of Cuba. Psyche 32, 95 - 105. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1155 / 1925 / 36181

Paladini, A. (2011) A new species of Ferorhinella with an unusual pattern of sexual size dimorphism (Hemiptera, Cercopidae, Tomaspidinae). Zootaxa, 2728, 57 - 60.

Valdes Ragues, P. (1910) Classificacion gundlach de Hemipteros Cubanos, conforme a los ejemplares que existen en el museum de Instituto de 2 nd Ensenanza de la Habana. Anales de la Academia de Ciencias Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la Habana, 46, 425 - 446.

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FIGURES 1 – 8. Examples of Microsarganini (1 – 3), Neaenini (4 – 5) and genera related to Phymatostetha (6 – 8) in dorsolateral aspect (A), dorsal aspect (B), lateral or ventrolateral aspect of head and thorax (C) and hind wing characters including detail of costal margin (D): 1, Microsargane sp.; 2, Microclimax luteosignatus; 3, Microlaqueus isolatus; 4, Helioptera gilvum; 5, Tomaspisinella lucifer sp. nov.; 6, Olcotomaspis laterinotata (Fowler), comb. nov.; 7, Hyalotomaspis clarissa (Jacobi); 8, Tomaspisina frontalis (Walker).

CNCI

Canadian National Collection Insects

NCSU

North Carolina State University Insect Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cercopidae

Genus

Microclimax