Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea)
Author
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3710
3
201
225
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3710.3.1
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Orthorapha
(s.s.)
laeta
Jacobi
Orthorapha laeta
Jacobi, 1921: 23
.
Orthorapha cassidioides
var.
nigra
Schmidt, 1931: 66
(
new synonymy
).
Diagnosis.
Head and dorsum black; hind wings absent. Tip of head dark brown, or (in palest form) head entirely ferruginous, with median line of notum brown; metathorax and hind coxae orange, abdomen and hind legs dark brown. Tegmina broadly rounded at tip, usually boldly marked with orange on apical quarter of tegmina (
Fig. 33
B) and sometimes with an orange band also across basal third, as in
holotype
(
Fig. 33
A). Theca lamellate, sinuate in lateral aspect, apical half straight, slender, weakly tapered to rounded tip (
Fig. 4
A). Length: male
5.7 mm
, female 5.7–6.0 mm. Width across pronotum:
2.2–2.4 mm
.
Type
.
Holotype
of
laeta
, male, [
BRAZIL
:
Pará
]—Obidos? [sic]; in SMFT.
Holotype
of
nigra
, male,
BRAZIL
:
Rio de Janeiro
—Itatiaya (in Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Institut Zoologique, Warszawa; not examined).
Additional material.
Seven females from
BRAZIL
:
Santa
Catharina
—Corupa, Rio
Natal
and Rio Vermelho, in AMNH and CNC.
Remarks.
The orange-and-black pattern is variable (
Fig. 33
A–B) in three short series. The small size (
5 mm
) and entirely black wings associate the male
holotype
of
nigra
with the dark variety of this species.