Melusinella rugifrons

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 : 35

rugifrons , Melusina Berg

(Figs. 27, 28)

1883. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, XVI, 288.

Lectotype, male (numbered 234), MLP no. 1745/1; Argentina, Buenos Aires; date unknown, Berg leg. Remarks: The specimen labelled as “ typus ” by Berg, is here designated as the lectotype (ICZN, art. 74.1.1). The lectotype has genitalia dissected in a vial with glycerine. It is missing its left forewing, and the prothoracic and mesothoracic legs and the left metathoracic tarsus.

This species was transferred to Melusinella by Metcalf & Wade (1965: 827).