Leioscyta niger Fonseca

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 : 20

Leioscyta niger Fonseca

Leioscyta niger Fonseca, 1936a: 157 , Figs. 1–2 [line drawings: lateral and dorsal view]. Leioscyta dafonsecai Metcalf and Wade; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a : 1316 [new replacement name for Leioscyta niger Fonseca , preoccupied]; McKamey, 1998a: 207.

Original repositories: IBSP, CJPF (see remarks).

3 female syntypes from BRAZIL: São Paulo: São Paulo, "♀ [glued onto mounting block]", "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] [19] 16 \ SÃO PAULO \ Capital ", "[red label] Cotype", " Leioscyta \ niger \ Fon [seca].". One female with the following label: "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA".

Male sytype, same locality as previous, “♂” (glued onto mounting block). "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] [19] 16 \ SÃO PAULO \ Capital ", "[red label] Cotype", " Leioscyta \ niger \ Fon [seca].", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA".

Double-mounted on minuten, with surface contaminants, apical limbus of forewings damaged. Remarks. Fonseca (1936a) designated one female and one male as ‘types’ (originally deposited at IBSP) but also mentions that ‘paratypes’ (number not specified) are in his personal collection. Since all specimens labeled as types bear identical labels, all were considered part of the type series as syntypes.