Polyrhyssa cultrata

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 : 25-26

Polyrhyssa cultrata maculata Fonseca

Polyrhyssa cultrata maculata Fonseca, 1941a: 134 [new subspecies within Polyrhyssa cultrata Coquebert ], Figs. 5–6 [line drawings: lateral and dorsal view]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a: 272.

Hemiptycha cultrata (Coquebert) ; Sakakibara, 1996b: 465 [new combination] [= Polyrhyssa cultrata maculata Fonseca, new synonymy].

Original repository: IBSP.

4 female syntypes from BRAZIL: Pará: Belém: "Belém, Pará \ H.F. Sauer, leg. \ 10-X-1938.", "[red label] Cotypus" [except for one female, “ Typus ”], "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", " Polyrhyssa cultrata macu -\ lata Fons [eca]” [one female missing the latter label]. Double-mounted on minute. Two females in excellent state of preservation. The other female (missing the third label) with prothoracic legs broken distal to coxa, and left metathoracic leg broken distal to trochanter.

Male syntype, same locality as previous, "Belém, Pará \ H.F. Sauer, leg. \ 10-X-1938.", "[red label] Cotypus", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA". Double-mounted on minuten, apical half of forewings broken, all legs (except the left prothoracic one) lacking tarsomeres.

Syntype of undetermined sex, same locality and label data as previous. Poorly preserved, consisting of only the pronotum and right wings, glued to a card. A forewing from another smiliine species is glued to the same card. Remarks. Fonseca has originally designated 3 specimens as syntypes (male and 2 females), however, 6 conspecific exemplars were labeled as types. Since they bear the same collection labels, they were considered as part of the type series.