Valdés Ragués, 1910 :445
Metcalf and Bruner, 1944 :111
Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Zootaxa
2016
4169
2
201
250
Valdes Ragues
Valdes Ragues
[151,670,1549,1575]
Insecta
Cercopidae
Microclimax
Animalia
Hemiptera
9
210
Arthropoda
species
luteosignata
comb. nov.
Tomaspis luteosignatus Valdés Ragués, 1910:445. Neanus luteosignatus: Metcalf and Bruner, 1944:111.
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. 2A; 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. Otherspecimens: CUBA: 1 male, HolguínProv., Estación Ecológica, 20.48613°N, 75.79152°W, 656m, 10 May 2013( A.B.T. Smith, R. Anderson, G. Zhang) MV lights, in CNCI; 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. Thefemale is apparently the single specimen mentioned by Metcalfand 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.
1313797455
2013-05-10
CNCI
A. B. T. Smith & R. Anderson & G. Zhang
Cuba
656
20.48613
Estacion Ecologica
1
-75.79152
Other
9
210
1
1
Holguin
1313797461
1959-06-11
ILNHS
L. V. Prov. & M. V. Sanderson
Trinidad and Tobago
10
211
Topes do Collantes
9
210
1
1
1313797468
2015-09
NCSU
G.S. Carvalho & A. R. Otero & The & Metcalf & Bruner
Trinidad and Tobago
640
Topes do Collantes
10
211
1
1
holotype