Cyphonia ancoralis

Marino, Ana M., Lenicov, De Remes, Mariani, Roxana, Scelsio, Natalia & Gutierrez, Alejandra, 2010, Membracidae types (Hemiptera-Membracoidea) housed at the Museo de La Plata entomological collection (Argentina), Zootaxa 2566, pp. 21-38 : 33

ancoralis , Cyphonia Berg

( Figs. 21, 22 )

1883. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, XVI, 285.

Lectotype, female (numbered 232), MLP no.1737/1; Argentina, Tucumán; date and collector unknown. Paralectotype, male (numbered 233), MLP no. 1737/3; same data as lectotype.

Remarks: Specimens 1737/1 and 3, labelled as “ typus ” by Berg, here are designated as lectotype and paralectotype respectively (ICZN, art. 74.1.1). The paralectotype has genitalia dissected in a vial with glycerine. The lectotype has the medial lateral spine of the pronotal process broken; pro- and mesothoracic legs missing tarsi, metathoracic legs missing tibiae and tarsi. The paralectotype has the posterior pronotal process broken, and the left forewing missing.

Figures

FIGURES 21 – 26. Subfamily Smiliinae. 21 – 22, Cyphonia ancoralis Berg. Lectotype female 1737 / 1: 21, lateral view; 22, frontal view; 23 – 24, Cyphonia bonaeriensis Berg. Syntype male 1738 / 1: 23, lateral view; 24, frontal view; 25 – 26, Cyphonia colenophora Berg. Syntype male 1740 / 1: 25, lateral view; 26, frontal view; 27 – 28, Melusinella rugifrons (Berg). Lectotype male 1745 / 1: 27, lateral view; 28, frontal view. Scale bar: 1 mm.