Zuata tettigoniella (Breddin)

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 243

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Zuata tettigoniella (Breddin) View in CoL , description of male.

Tomaspis tettigoniella Breddin, 1904: 59 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Male similar to female type ( Carvalho & Webb 2005, fig. 320) but in 2 of the 3 specimens the orange patch on the tegminal base is shorter, separated from the preapical orange band by the same width as that of their black apices.

Description. Male genitalia as in Z. segui , but male pygofer with only single setose lobe at base of anal tube, tips of subgenital plates nearly touching at midline, and styles with apical process shorter and more curved. Length: 7.5–7.8 mm, width across eyes 1.9 mm, across pronotum 2.5–2.6 mm; length of eye 0.5–0.6 mm, of side margins of pronotum 0.7–0.8 mm.

Remarks. The female type from Peru matches the 3 male specimens in NCSU but is slightly longer (8 mm). The males were taken at 1200m at Abitagua, Ecuador on 25 May 1939 by Wm. Clark-Macintyre.

Zuata zebra sp. nov.

Etymology. zebra, Old Spanish for wild ass (noun in apposition).

Diagnosis. Black strikingly marked with ivory.

Description. Outer edge of fore coxa, bands across tylus and anterior margin of pronotum and longitudinal stripes on scutellum and clavus ivory, latter paralleling claval suture; corium marked with white paralleling costal margin and also with circular white spot across subapical cells ( Fig. 13 View FIGURES 12 – 13 B). Male pygofer truncate; small transverse plate at base of anal tube ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 36 – 45 A); subgenital plates deeply divided, with abruptly narrowed tips and longitudinal folds reaching to base ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 36 – 45 D); style tip long and nearly straight; theca slender, weakly recurved ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 36 – 45 B); paired apical processes flanking gonopore with small lateral tooth near midlength ( Fig. 44 View FIGURES 36 – 45 C). Length: 8.3 mm, width across eyes 2.0 mm, across pronotum 2.7 mm; length of eye 0.6 mm, of side margins of pronotum 0.7 mm.

Type. Holotype male, COLOMBIA: Bogota (L. Richter), from NCSU, in NMNH .

References

Breddin, G. (1904) Einige sudamerikanische Cercopiden. Societas Entomologica, 19, 58 - 59.

Carvalho, G. S. & Webb, M. D. (2005) Cercopid Spittle Bugs of the New World (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cercopidae). Pensoft, Sofia-Moscow, 271 pp.

Figures

FIGURES 12 – 13. Zuata Fennah, head of Z. pica (Jacobi) (12) and others in dorsolateral aspect (13): A, Z. scapula sp. nov.; B, Z. zebra sp. nov.; C, Z. segui (Lallemand); D, Z. obrienorum sp. nov.; E, Z. ligatura sp. nov.; F, Z. hysginon sp. nov.; G, Z. ephipiata (Breddin); H, Z. oneraria (Jacobi), male; J, Z. infecta sp. nov.; K, Z. machadoa sp. nov.; L, Z. pictilis sp. nov.

FIGURES 36 – 45. Neaenini, male genitalia of Zuata: A, genital capsule, lateral aspect; B, same, theca and phallobase; C, theca, caudal aspect; D, genital capsule, ventral aspect. 36, Z. oneraria; 374, Z. pictilis; 38, Z. machadoa; 39, Z. hysginon; 40, Z. scapula (with enlarged detail of thecal tip; pygofer and subgenital plates as in Fig. 36, phallobase as in Fig. 44); 41, Z. ligatura; 42, Z. infecta; 43, Z. obrienorum (phallobase as in Fig. 38, styles as in Fig. 44); 44, Z. zebra; 45, Z. tettigoniella. All illustrations to same scale except 41 D and 42 D, to smaller scale as indicated.