Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål), Stal

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 227

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613379
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scientific name	Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål)
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

Tomaspisinella (Meretricula) punctatissima (Stål) , comb.nov.

Lepyronia punctatissima Stål, 1862: 15 View in CoL .

Balsa punctatissima: Lallemand 1912: 54 View in CoL .

Balsana punctatissima: Metcalf [and Wade] 1962 View in CoL : 192.

Diagnosis. Resembling T. olivieri , but with aedeagal processes.

Description. Crown black; rest of body and tegmina dark brown except for pale, oblique stripes across bases of tegmina, a few small, discal pale spots, and pale tegminal tips. Head in profile with frons angulate. Male pygofer low, 2× as long as high; subgenital plates with simple hooked tips; theca with bulbous base, weakly curved shaft armed with 2 pairs of slender, retrorse processes arising from sides of gonopore and extending a quarter length of shaft ( Fig. 30 View FIGURES 25 – 35 A–B). Length: male 3.9 mm, female 3.8 mm.

Types. Lectotype male, here designated, BRAZIL: ( Westerman ); bearing Stål's handwritten identification tag . Paralectotype female, [ BRAZIL]: Rio [de] Jan [eiro]. Both types in NRSE .

References

Lallemand, V. (1912) Homoptera Fam. Cercopidae. Genera Insectorum, 143, 1 - 167.

Metcalf, Z. P. & Wade, V. (1962) General Catalogue of the Homoptera. Fascicle 7 Cercopoidea. Part 3 Aphrophoridae. Waverly Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 600 pp.

Stal, C. (1862) Beitrag till Rio Janeiro-traktens Hemipterfauna, II. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien Handlingar, 3 (6), 1 - 75.

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.