Monecphora

Carvalho, Gervásio Silva, Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Webb, Michael D., 2016, Two new species of the Neotropical spittlebug genus Monecphora Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with key and notes of species of the genus, Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 143-152 : 144

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.13

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077826

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scientific name

Monecphora
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Key to species of Monecphora View in CoL View at ENA

1. Forewing unicolorous or with a distal spot or transverse band................................................... 5

1’. Forewing with one or two longitudinal bands................................................................ 2

2(1’). Pronotum completely dark-brown; forewing with a yellow longitudinal band from clavus base up to last fourth of corium ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 10 – 17 )......................................................................................... M. sipolisi View in CoL

2’. Pronotum not dark-brown............................................................................... 3

3(2’). Forewing with basal half of clavus and a longitudinal band in corium gradually narrowing towards apex, pale ochraceous ( Fig. 9 View FIGURES 7 – 9 )............................................................................................. M. fryi View in CoL

3’. Forewing with longitudinal band of corium not narrowing towards apex.......................................... 4

4(3’). Pronotum light brown with a longitudinal medial band and another band on latero-anterior margin, ocher-yellow; forewing with costal margin with a band along anterior half and a large quadrate macula opposite to tip of clavus, ocher-yellow.................................................................................................. M. opulenta View in CoL

4’. Pronotum ocher-yellow with a transverse median stripe and the posterior margin, dark-brown; forewing with a longitudinal ocher-yellow band at middle of corium not reaching tip ( Fig. 18 View FIGURES 18 – 20 )................................... M. longitudinalis View in CoL

5(1). Forewing unicolorous, opaque basally, becoming transparent distally ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 18 – 20 ).............................. M. pallida View in CoL

5’. Forewing not unicolorous............................................................................... 6

6(5’). Forewing with a narrow transverse band at level of scutellum tip ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 7 – 9 )................................ M. cingulata View in CoL

6’. Forewing without narrow transverse band at level of scutellum tip............................................... 7

7(6’). Forewing broadly marked with brown distally............................................................... 8

7’. Forewing translucent grey with a brown spot distally ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 10 – 17 )........................................ M. nigritarsis View in CoL

8(7). Forewing with distal 4/5 of corium dark-brown ( Fig. 16 View FIGURES 10 – 17 )............................................. M. semilutea View in CoL

8’. Forewing with distal one or two-thirds of corium brown....................................................... 9

9(8’). Pronotum with paired thick brown longitudinal bands ( Figs 1–2 View FIGURES 1 – 6 ).............................. M. broomfieldi sp. nov.

9’. Pronotum without longitudinal brown bands, may have transverse band.......................................... 10

10(9’). Forewing with distal two-thirds of corium light-brown and proximal third yellow ( Fig. 10 View FIGURES 10 – 17 ).......... M. machadoi sp. nov.

10’. Forewing with distal third of corium dark-brown and proximal two-thirds ochraceous ( Fig. 20 View FIGURES 18 – 20 )............ M. nigroapicata View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cercopidae

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