Dukeobelus dukei Capener

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 : 16

Dukeobelus dukei Capener

Dukeobelus dukei Capener, 1952b: 119 , Figs. 34–39 [line drawings: frontal, lateral and dorsal view, detail of the head, scutellum, and wings]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a: 367; McKamey, 1998a: 92.

Original repository: see remarks.

Paratype female from SOUTH AFRICA: Western Cape: unknown municipality: “Roode Zands Mtn. [Mountains] \ CAPE PROVINCE \ 15. I. 49 \ A. J. Duke”, “[light pink label] PARATYPE \ FEMALE”, “ Dukeobelus \ dukei \ CAPENER”, “HOST PLANT \ Protea \ grandiflora”. Double-mounted on minuten, right metathoracic leg lacking tarsal claws.

Remarks. Capener (1952b) states that the female holotype was deposited at his personal collection, and remaining paratypes (24 females and 17 nymphs) were in the British Museum, Transvaal Museum, South African Museum, and National Museum of Southern Rhodesia, in addition to his personal collection (with no specification as to the number of paratypes per collection or institution). Specimens from Capener’s collection could have been subsequently donated to MZSP.