Membracis foliataarcuata ( DeGeer, 1773 )

Sakakibara, Albino M. & Evangelista, Olívia, 2010, Membracis foliata (Linnaeus) (Hemiptera: Membracidae: Membracinae) and allied species: an effort towards their correct determination, Journal of Natural History 44 (35 - 36), pp. 2131-2148 : 2136

Membracis foliataarcuata ( DeGeer, 1773)

(Figure 5)

Cicada foliata-arcuata [sic] De Geer, 1773, p 206, pl 32, Figure 10–13 (type-locality: Surinam).

Membracis arcuata [sic]; Fairmaire, 1846, p 247; Funkhouser, 1927, p 41 (cat.).

Membracis periphaeria Fairmaire, 1846, p 245 , pl 4, Figure 15 (type-locality: Cayenne); Funkhouser, 1927, p 41 (= M.. arcuata DeGeer ); Metcalf and Wade, 1965, p 1239 (cat.); Sakakibara, 1992, p 94; McKamey, 1998, p 210 (cat.).

Membracis curvilinea Walker, 1858, p 58 (type-locality: Brazil, Para); Funkhouser, 1927, p 44 (cat.) (= M. dorsata Fabricius ); Metcalf and Wade, 1965, p 1259 (cat.) (= M. zonata Fairmaire ); Broomfield, 1971, p 344; Sakakibara, 1992, p 94 (syn.).

Membracis foliataarcuata ; Metcalf and Wade, 1965, p 1239 (cat.); Sakakibara, 1992, p 94; McKamey, 1998, p 210 (cat.).

This is one of the forms of M. foliata which had, according to Linnaeus, a single arcuate white band (“arcu albo”). DeGeer (l. cit.) described it as “à-qu’il n’a qu’une seule bande large transparente and jaunatre de chaque coté, qui s’étend en arc du bout antérieur jusqu’au bout postérieur [there is only one large transparent and yellow band at each side, which extends in arc from the anterior border up to the posterior border]”. Fairmaire (1846) and Walker (1858a) described the same species as M. periphaeria and M. curvilinea (Figure 5, lectotype female, BMNH), respectively.

M. foliataarcuata is very similar to M. sanguineoplaga Schmidt, 1906 , being distinguished by the absence of a red spot before the apex of the posterior process. The arcuate yellowish band extends from the margin of the anterior lobe of metopidium, in front of the head, until near apex of posterior process, curved above humeral angles, then close to lateral margins.

Material examined

Membracis curvilinea Walker (lectotype ♀, BMNH). Additional non-type material from FRENCH GUYANA: “Cayenne” (1♀, NHRS).