Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) inscripta, Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2013

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2013, Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea), Zootaxa 3710 (3), pp. 201-225 : 220

Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) inscripta sp. nov.

Etymology. in- upon, scripta (adjective), from the Latin meaning “written.”

Diagnosis. A small species like the preceding, but with dark spots on dorsum, smooth veins and theca broadly sagittate ( Fig. 9 B).

Description. Dark brown, paler on ventral half of face; marked with ivory as follows: W-shaped mark at tip of head forming slender median line ending in knob and divergent winglike lines from base extending onto sides of tylus, laterally overlaid by black muscle arcs (as in Fig. 34 B); crown with 3 spots, 1 at base of tylus and a pair at base of crown near eyes; pronotum with 3 pairs of irregular spots on either side of midline and a dash behind each eye, forming a chain; tegmina paler on veins at base of clavus, midlength and tips of corium. Head strongly produced, as long as pronotum in male, longer in female; frons strongly inflated in profile, angular at apex as in O. boliviana ; crown declivous, face horizontal, frons as low as clypellus at maximum expansion; head as wide as pronotum; lateral margins of pronotum much shorter than eye; tegmina rugulose, 1.7 × as long as broad, veins strongly carinate throughout; hind wings as in O. obliqua ( Fig. 2 C). Style abruptly narrowed preapically, tip small and hooked upwards. Theca shaft straight ( Fig. 9 A), sagittate tip triangular, almost as wide as long, bearing slitshaped gonopore a quarter as long as shaft ( Fig. 9 B). Length: male 3.9 (type) – 4.3 mm; female 4.5–5.1 mm. Width across head or pronotum 1.4–1.5 mm.

Types. Holotype male, BRAZIL: Estado di Rio [de Janiero] — Rezende, Mar. 1924 (F.X. Williams). Paratypes: 1 female, same data; both types from this locality in BPBM; 1 male, 2 females, S [anta] Cath [arina]—Rio Vermelho, Nov. 1945 (A. Maller), in AMNH. The BPBM types are from the same series as non-type material of O. quadrimaculata .

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.

FIGURE 34 – 36. Facial aspect (34), lateral aspect (35), tegmen in widest aspect (36) of Lepyronoxia. A, O. irregularis sp. nov.; B, O. frontalis (Stål); C, O. boliviana sp. nov.; D, O. obliqua (Jacobi), male; E, O. quadrimaculata (Lallemand); F, O. rana (Walker); G, O. decorata sp. nov.; H, O. oculata sp. nov.; J, O. sphaerata sp. nov.; K, O. subfasciata (A. & S.); L, O. obscurata (A. & S.), male; M, O. bufo (Walker). Scale line: 1 mm.