Oxyrhachis transvaalensis Capener

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 : 25

Oxyrhachis transvaalensis Capener

Oxyrhachis transvaalensis Capener, 1962a: 59 , Plate 13, 14, Fig. 28 [line drawings: frontal, lateral, and dorsal view]; McKamey, 1998a: 229.

Original repository: see remarks.

Paratype male from SOUTH AFRICA: Mpumalanga: Delmas: “[orange label] PARATYPE \ MALE”, “Xiphistes \ transvaalensis \ det. Capener \ [reverse] 1960 [partialy covered by small card]”, “TRANSVAAL [Mine] \ ARGENT [Industrial Limited] \ MAR[ch]. 1942 \ A. L. Capener”. Double-mounted on minuten, pronotum broken lacking apex of posterior process, left prothroracic leg and left metathoracic leg lacking tarsomeres, mesothoracic legs missing.

Paratype female from SOUTH AFRICA: Mpumalanga: Delmas: “[yellow label] PARATYPE \ FEMALE”, “Xiphistes \ transvaalensis \ det. Capener \ [reverse] 1960 [partially covered by a small card]”, “ARGENT \ Tvl [Transvaal]. \ 2–6 III.1942 \ A. L. Capener”. Double-mounted on minuten, pronotum with two holes near pin insertion, right prothoracic leg lacking tarsomeres, left prothoracic leg broken distal to femur, mesothoracic legs broken distal to femur, right metathoracic leg broken distal to coxa, right forewing broken at apex, left forewing broken at basal coastal margin and at apex.

Remarks. Same as Oxyrhachis concinna Capener.