Kanaima katzensteinii (Berg)

Foieri, Alvaro & Lenicov, Ana Maria Marino de Remes, 2019, Cercopoidea types (Hemiptera-Cicadomorpha) housed at the Museo de la Plata entomological collection (Argentina), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 59, pp. 1-10 : 4-5

Kanaima katzensteinii (Berg) ( Fig. 6 )

1879. Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, VIII: 233.

Tomaspis katzensteinii Berg, 1879: 233 .

Kanaima katzensteinii (Berg) comb. n. by Distant, 1909: 213.

Lectotype, male, MLP no. 1735/1; Argentina, Corrientes; date and collectors unknown.

Paralectotype, female, MLP no. 1735/2 ; Argentina, Buenos Aires, date and collectors unknown .

Paralectotype, female, MLP no. 1735/3 ; Argentina, Entre Ríos, Concepción del Uruguay ; date and collectors unknown.

Original Description:

“Fusci, capite parteque anteriore pronoti piceis vel nigris, tegminibus fuliginosis, dilute fuscis aut luteis; capite magniusculo, punctato, medio obsolete carinato; vértice leviter impresso, antice semicirculariter rotundato, medio subcarinato, carina ad basin tubérculo punctiformi et obsoleto instructa; fronte sat tumida, fere semiglobosa, transversim punctato-striata, medio carina obsoleta praedita; pronoto dense punctato, antice medio nonnihil elevato et utrimque biimpresso vel subrugoso, medio basin versus subtilissime sulcato; scutello transverse rubuloso, medio impresso; tegminibus sublibratis, apicem versus nonnihil angustatis, limbo rotundato; alis hyalinis; dorso abdominis fuscescenti, apice flavido; pedibus fuscis aut luteis. Long. corp. 12-13, tegm. 10-11; lat. Pron. 3 ½ - 4 mm ”.

Translation:

Fuscous, head and pronotum anteriorly dark-brown, tegmina yellowish brown. Head broadly rounded, punctate, with an insconspicuous median carina; vertex slightly punctured, rounded at anterior part and medially subcarinate, carina at base with tubercle slightly marked; frons lightly inflated, transversely sculptured-striated, with a lightly marked median carina; pronotum strongly punctured, anterior part slightly elevated with slightly punctured striae on each side, medial line finely sulcated at base; scutellum lightly transversely striated, punctate medially; tegmina moderately slender and apically rounded; dorsal surface of abdomen darkish with apex yellowish; legs darkened to yellowish. Body length: 12-13 mm; tegmina: 10-11 mm; pronotum width: 3 ½ - 4 mm.

Remarks: All the specimens labelled as “typus” by Berg and treated as syntypes by Carvalho & Webb (2005), are considered here as lectotype and paralectotypes (ICZN, art. 74.1.1). This species was originally described as Tomaspis Amyot & Serville by Berg (1879) and transferred to Kanaima Distant by Distant (1909: 213).

Paralectotype 1732/2 lacks right forewing, both prothoracic legs and tarsi of left mesothoracic leg. Paralectotype 1732/3 lacks both prothoracic legs and right mesothoracic leg.

Figures

Figure 6. Ischnorhininae.Kanaima katzensteinii(Berg),Lectotype,male,dorsal (A) and lateral view (B).Scale = 2 mm.