Potnia orthosoma, Fonseca and Diringshofen, Fonseca and Diringshofen

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 : 4-5

Aconophoroides orthosoma Fonseca and Diringshofen

Aconophoroides orthosoma Fonseca and Diringshofen, 1974a: 153, Fig. 2 [line drawings: frontal, lateral and dorsal view].

Potnia orthosoma ; McKamey and Deitz, 1991b: 194 [new combination]; McKamey and Deitz; 1996: 323. Potnia jacula (Fabricius, 1803) ; Creão-Duarte and Sakakibara, 1996: 1004, Figs 1–4 [line drawings: lateral and frontal view, male genitalia]; Fig. 52 [photograph of the type-specimen] [Equals Aconophoroides orthosoma , new junior synonym].

Original repository: CRVD.

Female syntype from BRAZIL: Amazonas: Óbidos: "♀", " BRASIL \ Obidos - Pará \ bx [baixo] / Amazonas \ Dirings[hofen collection] \ [reverse] AGO 1960 ", "Aconophoroides \ orthosoma \ n.sp. -Fonseca \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] Aconophoroides \ ortthosoma [sic] n. sp. \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "[red label] Cotype". Double-mounted on minuten, in excellent state of preservation.

Female syntype, same locality as previous, "♀", " BRASIL \ Obidos \ baixo Amazonas \ Pará \ Dirings[hofen collection] \ [reverse] JAN 1960 ", "Aconophoroides \ Orthosoma \ n.sp. -Fonseca \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "[red label] Cotypus". Pinned through right side of body, right forewing broken at claval suture (both pieces of forewing still attached to the body), apex of left forewing folded inwards.

Female syntype, same locality as previous, "♀", " BRASIL \ Obidos - Pará \ bx[baixo]/ Amazonas \ Museu DIRINGS[hofen collection] \ [reverse] JUL 1959 ", "Aconophoroides \ orthosoma \ n.sp. Fonseca \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "[red label] Cotypus". Double-mounted on minuten, with left prothoracic and metathoracic leg lacking tarsomeres.

3 female syntypes, same locality as previous, "♀", " BRASIL \ Canta Galo \ (Obidos) \ Pará Dirings[hofen collection]. \ [reverse] OUT 1959 [in other two specimens: DEZ 1956 and SET 1960, respectively]", "Aconophoroides \ orthosoma \ n.sp. -Fonseca \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "Aconophoroides \ ortthosoma [sic] n. sp. \ [reverse] det. J. P. Fonseca", "[red label] Cotype". Double-mounted on minuten. First female [collected in October]: metathoracic legs lacking tarsomeres. Second female [collected in September]: right forewing detached from the body, folded inwards, and glued over hindwing.

Female syntype, same locality as previous: " BRASIL \ Canta Galo \ (Obidos) \ Pará Dirings[hofen collection]. \ [reverse] OUT 1959”, “ Aconophoroides \ orthosoma Fons [eca] \ Cótipo ”. Double-mounted on minuten, left metathoracic leg lacking tarsal claws.

Remarks. There was no explicit type specimen designation in the original description. In the geographic distribution (Fonseca and Diringhofen, 1974a, p. 154), the authors mention that seven females from the Diringshofen collection were studied, implying the syntype status of the aforementioned specimens.