Membracis richteri 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 : 23

Membracis richteri Fonseca

Membracis richteri Fonseca, 1949a: 113 , Fig. 8d [line drawing: lateral view]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a: 1253. Membracis zonata Fairmaire, 1942 ; Sakakibara, 1992a: 95 [Equals Membracis richteri Fonseca , new junior synonym].

Original repository: CJPF.

Female holotype from BRAZIL: São Paulo: Pitangueiras: "[17] VIII -[1] 940 \ SÃO PAULO \ Pitangueiras [J. P. Fonseca leg.]", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[red label] Typus ", " Membracis richteri \ Fons [eca]. 1949 \ Oliveira, M [arcelo]. G [guena]. det. ". Double-mounted on minuten, in excellent state of preservation; a small portion of the forewings’ limbus is broken at the fourth apical cell.

Remarks. The species determination label was subsequently placed by Marcelo Guena Oliveira, who first curated the treehoppers described by Fonseca, and by Fonseca and Diringshofen. The type matches the description and illustration provided in Fonseca (1949a).