Orthorapha

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2013, Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea), Zootaxa 3710 (3), pp. 201-225 : 214

Orthorapha (s.s.) polita Stål

Orthorhapha [sic] polita Stål, 1862a: 16 .

Orthoraphia [sic] polita as synonym of cassidioides: Jacobi, 1921: 23 (error).

Diagnosis. Venter redbrown, pleura beneath tegmina yellowish; dorsum and tegmina black, boldly marked with yellow on basal third of costa and with numerous vein tips scarcely indicated; tip of tegmina angulate; hind wings as in O. cassidioides ( Fig. 2 F). Theca as in O. cassidioides ( Fig. 3 A). Female unknown. Length: 5.7–6.2 mm. Width across pronotum: 2.5–2.7 mm.

Type. Holotype male, [ BRAZIL]: Rio [de] Jan[eiro] (F. Sahlb[erg]), bearing Stål's handwritten tag to "lautipes Stål" [MS name?]; paralectotype, same sex and data, except collected by Stål. Both types in NRSE.

Figures

FIGURE 2. New World Orthoraphini: habitus (A – B), hind wing (C – F) including detail of hamuli on costal margin (G – H), male abdomen in ventral aspect (J) and male genital capsule in lateral aspect (K). A, Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) frontalis (Stål); B, F, H, O. cassidioides Westwood, female; C, Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) obliqua (Jacobi); D, Orthorapha (Balsania) concinna (Stål); E, G, Orthorapha (Balsania) geminata (Jacobi); J, K, Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) bufo (Walker).

FIGURES 3 – 17. Male theca of Orthorapha s. s. (3 – 5), subgenus Balsania (6 – 7) and Lepyronoxia (8 – 17), lateral (A) and caudal aspect of tip (B): 3, O. cassidioides; 4, O. laeta; 5, O. invidia; 6, O. reducta; 7, O. sagittata; 8, O. obscurata; 9, O. inscripta; 10, O. decorata; 11, O. oculata; 12, O. bufo; 13, O. rana (type of O. glabrata); 14, O. subfasciata; 15, O. frontalis; 16, O. quadrimaculata; 17, O. sphaerata. Scale line: 0.05 mm.