Alcmeone flavoestriata Fonseca and Diringshofen

Evangelista, Olivia, Santos, Guilherme Ide Marques Dos & Lamas, Carlos Einicker, 2014, An annotated catalogue of the Membracidae types in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadomorpha), Zootaxa 3895 (1), pp. 1-30 : 6

Alcmeone flavoestriata Fonseca and Diringshofen

Alcmeone flavoestriata Fonseca and Diringshofen, 1969a: 157 , Fig. 10 [line drawings: frontal, lateral and dorsal view); McKamey, 1998a: 149.

Original repository: CRVD.

Female syntype from BRAZIL: Amazonas: Benjamin Constant: " BRASIL \ Benj[amin]. Constant \ rio Javary \ alto Amazonas \ Dirings[hofen collection] \ [reverse] MAI 1962 ", "[J. P. Fonseca’s handwriting] Alcmeone \ flavoestriata \ J. P. Fonseca det. 1969 ", "[red label] Cotypus". Double-mounted on minuten, right supra humeral horn broken at middle.

Remarks. The original description specifies a female as the holotype. However, one male from Óbidos (Pará State, Brazil) is also labeled as a type. It does not match the original description and the illustration provided, and therefore is not considered part of the type series.