Oxyrhachis concinna 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 : 23

Oxyrhachis concinna Capener

Oxyrhachis concinna Capener, 1962a: 85 , Plate 19–20, Fig. 43 [line drawings: frontal, lateral, and dorsal view]; McKamey, 1998a: 223.

Original repository: see remarks.

Paratype male from SOUTH AFRICA: Gauteng: Johannesburg: “ PARATYPE \ MALE”, “ Oxyrhachis \ concinna \ CAPENER \ [reverse] 1962”, “Bedford Ridge \ Johannesburg \ 30 .3[iii].19 49 \ A. L. Capener”. Double-mounted on minuten, right hind leg lacking tarsomeres.

Paratype female from SOUTH AFRICA: Gauteng: Johannesburg: “[yellow label] PARATYPE \ FEMALE”, “ Oxyrhachis \ concinna \ CAPENER \ [reverse] 1962”, “Bedford Ridge \ JOHANNESBURG \ 18. IV. 19 51 ” \ A. L. Capener”. Double-mounted on minuten, in good state of preservation.

Remarks. Capener (1962a) designated paratypes in the National Collection of Insects in Pretoria, British Museum, and his personal collection, with no specified number of specimens per repository. The examined specimens and their collecting data match the type locality and original description. These paratypes could have been subsequently donated to MZSP from Capener’s personal collection.