Cyphonia digitata Sakakibara

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 : 12

Cyphonia digitata Sakakibara

Cyphonia digitata Sakakibara, 1968 a: 454 , Fig. 15 a–f [line drawings: frontal, lateral and dorsal view, male genitalia]; Kopp and Yonke, 1979 a: 31; McKamey, 1998 a: 248.

Original repository: DZSA.

2 female paratypes from BRAZIL: São Paulo: unknown municipality: " III -[ 19] 37 \ SÃO PAULO \ Alto da Serra \ [reverse] leg. \ Schw ", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[red label, Sakakibara’s handwriting] PARATYPUS \ Cyphonia digitata \ A. M. Sakakibara 19 68 ". Double-mounted on minuten. First female in excellent state of preservation. Second female: left prothoracic leg lacking tarsomeres; pronotum with median process, pronotum broke, lacking left and median branches of posterior process.

2 female paratypes from BRAZIL: São Paulo: Bertioga: " XI -[ 1] 920 \ SÃO PAULO \ Bertioga ", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[red label, Sakakibara’s handwriting] PARATYPUS \ Cyphonia digitata \ A. M. Sakakibara 19 68 ". Double-mounted on minuten. First female: right supra humeral horn broken, left branch of trifid posterior process of pronotum broken distal to the node, remaining branches broken at the tip; right prothoracic leg broken distal to femur, right meso- and both metathoracic legs lacking tarsomeres. Second female: right prothoracic leg broken distal to femur, right mesothoracic leg lacking tarsomeres, left metathoracic leg broken distal to mid-tibia; median pronotal process broken at the tips.

Paratype male from BRAZIL: São Paulo: Itapura: " 1934 \ SÃO PAULO \ Itapura ", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[red label] PARATYPUS \ Cyphonia digitata \ A. M. Sakakibara 19 68 ". Double-mounted on minuten, supra humeral horns broken, posterior trifid process with lateral branches broken near the base, median branch broken at the tip, right metathoracic leg broken distal to coxa.