Allocyphotes robertoi Gonzalez-Mozo, 2023

Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura C. & Ware, Jessica L., 2023, Review of Cyphotes Burmeister, 1835 (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with the description of a related new genus, Zootaxa 5380 (6), pp. 501-525 : 522-524

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.6.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B6F08430-56FD-4F1A-9C2E-2BBB8D492C68
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10371495
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE772D-FFC5-FF90-FF36-1EAAFB9EF9C1
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Allocyphotes robertoi Gonzalez-Mozo
status	sp. nov.

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Allocyphotes robertoi Gonzalez-Mozo sp. nov.

( Figures. 14F View FIGURE 14 ; 15F View FIGURE 15 ; 16F View FIGURE 16 ; 17D View FIGURE 17 ; 18E; 18E, F View FIGURE 18 ; 20M–P View FIGURE 20 )

Diagnosis. Pronotum in lateral view, with two rounded swellings; female second valvula with five teeth on dorsal surface.

Description. Color. General color light brown, head and legs dark brown, metopidium with a V-shaped black band, pronotum with black band behind humeral angles, posterior process with a small transversal black line. Male, dark brown with light brown bands in posterior process. Sculpture. Metopidium and carina media tuberculate, covered with small knots, apex of pronotum with a transversal line of knots. Head. In lateral view vertex concave ( Fig. 15F View FIGURE 15 ), frontoclypeus apex truncate ( Fig. 14F View FIGURE 14 ). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view sinuate, preapical part of posterior pronotal process subdivided into two selling one anterior elevated, rounded, followed by a smaller conicalshaped swelling ( Fig. 15F View FIGURE 15 ); in dorsal view, humeral angles strongly developed laterally ( Fig. 16F View FIGURE 16 ). Forewing. s crossvein present, posterior to r-m, macula present in apical cells I, II, III, and limbo apical ( Fig. 17D View FIGURE 17 ). Abdomen. Male. Subgenital and lateral plate margin dorsal truncate ( Figs. 20M, N View FIGURE 20 ); aedeagus in lateral view scoop-shaped, concave, corona denticulate, gonopore membrane slightly produced posteriorly ( Fig. 20O View FIGURE 20 ); style slender throughout with apex acute, margin dorsal curved ( Fig. 20P View FIGURE 20 ). Female. First valvulae. VID convex, apex acute ( Fig.18E View FIGURE 18 ). Second valvulae. with four teeth in dorso-apical margin ( Fig. 19E View FIGURE 19 ).

Etymology. This species is named in loving memory of Roberto Emilio Mozo Sanchez.

Material exanimated. Holotype male, pinned. (♂ QCAZ 273216 View Materials ). Original Label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1 Km S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent. 216.3 m alt S 00°39’25.7” 76°27’10.8” 21-Jun-1996 T.L Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest lot#1557 || Paratype female, pinned. (♀ QCAZ 273217 View Materials ). Original label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1 Km S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent. 216.3 m alt S 00°39’25.7” 76°27’10.8” 2-Jul-1995 T.L Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest lot#1083.

Comments. This species is most similar to A. pompanoni comb. nov. (see comments A. pompanoni ). Males of A. robertoi differ in being smaller and lighter in coloration than females. The three new species here described are from Ecuador (see Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 ), all from the same location: Reserva Etnica Waorani in Orellana, Ecuador, collected by T. Erwin et al. The distribution of these species may be wider but their discovery in one small area suggests that many membracid species remain to be discovered in the canopy of the neotropical forest.