Tettigades blanchardi, Torres, 1948

Marino De Remes Lenicov, Ana M., Maciá, Arnaldo & Pianzola, Bruno, 2015, Cicadidae types (Hemiptera-Cicadomorpha) housed at the Museo de La Plata entomological collection (Argentina), Zootaxa 3974 (3), pp. 301-327 : 312

blanchardi , Tettigades Torres, 1948

( Figure 6 d)

= Alarcta blanchardi ( Torres, 1948) . Torres 1958b: Revista del Museo de La Plata (Nueva Serie). Sección Zoología 7, 28–29. 1948 c. Notas del Museo de La Plata. Zoología 13 (108), 181–183.

Holotype, male UNLP N° 1690/1 . Argentina, Neuquén, Zapala . Estancia Zapala . FCS TERR: del Neuquen. 1000msnm. 23-XI-1940, W. P. Benson col., E. E. Blanchard leg.

Paratype, male UNLP N° 1690/3 . Same locality and collector; 15-XI-1940.

Paratype, male (2) UNLP N° 1690/4 . Same locality and collector; 14-XI-1940.

Remarks. Holotype 1690/1 “ Holotype / Tettigades blanchardi Torres ” on red label, and “ Alarcta blanchardi Torres ” on white label below; paratype 1690/3 red label, “ Paratype / Tettigades bahiensis Torres ” and another white label below “ Alarcta bahiensis Torres ”; with extended hind left wing, fore left wing glued on a piece of card; male paratype 1690/4 with left wings, metathorax and legs broken; without paratype label although it is mentioned in the description by the author. In Torres (1958b) the author made a new combination as Alarcta blanchardi (Torres) . Ferrocarril Central del Sur (FCS TERR) is an old name of the Ferrocarril General Roca of the Argentine railway system.

Figures

FIGURE 6. TIBICININAE. (a) Tettigades albicerata Torres, Holotype female, dorsal view. (b) T. auropilosa Torres, Syntype male, dorsal view. (c) T. bahiensis Torres, Paratype male, dorsal view. (d) T. blanchardi Torres, Paratype male, dorsal and lateral view. (e) T. bosqi Torres, Allotype male, dorsal view. (f) T. brevicauda Torres, Allotype female, dorsal view. (g) T. brevivenosa Torres, Holotype male, dorsal and lateral view (h) T. cinnabarina Berg, Holotype female, dorsal and lateral view. Scale = 1 cm.