Leioscyta hemacroma Fonseca and Diringshofen

Evangelista, Olivia, Santos, Guilherme Ide Marques Dos & Lamas, Carlos Einicker, 2014, An annotated catalogue of the Membracidae types in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadomorpha), Zootaxa 3895 (1), pp. 1-30 : 19

Leioscyta hemacroma Fonseca and Diringshofen

Leioscyta hemacroma Fonseca and Diringshofen, 1969a: 145 , Fig. 2 [line drawings: lateral and dorsal view]; McKamey, 1998a: 207.

8 male syntypes from BRAZIL: Mato Grosso: Corumbá, "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] [19] 62 \ GOYAZ \ Corumbá [Frederico Lane leg.]", "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] Leioscyta \ hemacroma \ J. P. Fonseca det. 1969 ", "[red label] Cotypus".

All specimens double-mounted on minuten. First male in excellent state of preservation. Second male: covered with surface contaminants, tip of posterior process of pronotum and limbus of forewings broken. Third male: metathoracic legs lacking tarsomeres. Fourth male in excellent state of preservation. Fifth male: covered with surface contaminants, pronotum broken, apical half of posterior process missing, wings damaged, metathoracic legs broken distal to femur. Sixth male in excellent state of preservation. Seventh male: covered with surface contaminants, lacking left forewing, apical limbus of right forewing and distal half of median carina damaged. Eighth male: right mesothoracic leg broken distal to femur, left metathoracic leg lacking tarsomeres. Remarks. The original description designates two females and one male as syntypes. However, eight conspecific males collected at the same event were labeled as types. All of them bear a species determination label written by Fonseca and match the original description both in the described morphological features and the type locality, so it is unknown which of these were originally designated as syntypes. There are also two specimens labeled as “ Leioscyta hemacroma ” that were not considered part of the type series: one non-conspecific female, and one male lacking a collection label.