Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Zootaxa
2016
4169
2
201
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Insecta
Aphrophoridae
Microsargane
Animalia
Hemiptera
13
214
Arthropoda
genus
Etymology. splendida(adj.), shiny.
Diagnosis.Boldly patterned, with an unusually broad head.
Description.Head as wide as pronotum, crown as long as midline of pronotum. Face and dorsum shiny black; tegmina rather short, blackish brown with bold, white patches covering clavi and adjacent corium, transversely truncate on posterior margin; tegminal tips with red line connecting pale costal markings. Male as in M. apicata, but aedeagal processes more broadly spreading, tip furcating at right angles, inner branch straight and spinelike, outer branch weakly curved and parallel-margined. Length: male and female 7.2 mm.
Type. Holotypefemale, PANAMA: Cerro Campana, 18 July 1976( W.E. Clark); in NMNH. Paratypemale, COLOMBIA: Valle del Cauca, Bajo Anchicaya 400m, 23 Mar. 1984( M. SuarezT.), in NCSU.
Remarks.A second (non-type) female with the same collection data as holotypeis slightly larger ( 7.7 mm) and lacks the bold white area on the tegmina. It may be a melanic form of the same species. However, the paratypemale was taken at the same time and place as a paratypeof the morphologically similar but very differently patterned M. apicata, suggesting that color plays an important speciation role in this genus.
1313797443
[199,1255,1301,1326]
1976-07-18
NMNH
W. E. Clark
Panama
Cerro Campana
13
214
2
holotype
1313797426
1984-03-23
NCSU
M. Suarez
Colombia
400
Bajo Anchicaya
13
214
1
Valle del Cauca
paratype