Tomaspisinella (Merinx) bolivari, Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 225-226

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613363
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scientific name	Tomaspisinella (Merinx) bolivari
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Tomaspisinella (Merinx) bolivari sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Styles right-angled at midlength.

Description. Black, unmarked; coronal margin and fore and middle tarsi brown to tan. Pronotal margins distinctly overlapping tegminal bases (as in Cosmoscartini). Legs placed very close together. Male subgenital plates avicephaliform ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B), separated by narrow, U-shaped notch ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 25 – 35 D); style apices tapered to sharp points weakly curved mesad; aedeagal shaft parallel-margined on basal half, tapered and straight on apical half, unarmed ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B). Length: male 3.4–3.5 mm; female unknown.

Types. Holotype male, VENEZUELA: Bolivar ─ 10 km N Luepa, Gran Sabana 1500 m, 26 June –11 July 1987 (S. and J. Peck) Malaise-FIT [flight interception trap], cloud forest . Paratypes: 3 males, same data as holotype . Holotype and 1 paratype No. 21082 in CNCI; 1 paratype each in BMNH and NMNH.

Remarks. The pronotum overlapping the tegminal bases is a character otherwise found in Cercopoidea only in the Palaeotropical Cosmoscartini.

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 35. Neaenini, Menytes (25) and Tomaspisinella (26 – 35): 25 A – B, genital capsule and genitalia of Menytes lathrius, lateral aspect; 25 C, same, tip of theca in caudal aspect; 25 D, subgenital plates, ventral aspect; 26, head and thorax of Tomaspisinella (s. s.) caligata; 27, same, of T. (Ovotomaspis) minuscula; 28 – 35, Tomaspisinella spp., with genital capsule and style (A), aedeagus in lateral aspect (B), tip of aedeagus in caudal aspect (C), subgenital plates in ventral aspect (D): 28, T. (s. s.) parva; 29, T. (s. s.) lucifer; 30, T. (Meretricula) punctatissima; 31, T. (Meretricula) oliveirai; 32, T. (Meretricula) pallidiceps; 33, T. (Ovotomaspis) diabolus sp. nov.; 34, T. (Merinx) jocosa; 35, T. (Merinx) bolivari. Only genital illustrations to scale, with 28 C and 35 at larger scale than others, as indicated by scale lines.