Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae
Author
Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4169
2
201
250
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1
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1175-5326
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Tomaspisinella
(s.s.)
parva
Lallemand
, description of male
Diagnosis.
Male resembling female but darker,
t
egmina with a chain of 4 white spots extending from costa to claval suture, most clearly broken in middle.
Description.
Male pygofer as in
T.
(
Hemitomaspis
)
caligata
(
Carvalho & Webb 2005, fig. 4e
) but slightly longer, in ventral aspect globose, deeply notched medially (
Fig. 28
D); male theca with short, divergent apical processes (
Fig. 28
C). Length: male
6.8 mm
, female
6.5 mm
.
Remarks.
The female
holotype
of
T. parva
from
Ecuador
has the entire postpedicel densely pitted (
Fig. 19
B) in contrast to that of a male (
Fig. 19
A), also from
Ecuador
:
Napo
,
6 km
E Misahualli
,
Jatun Sasha Res.
450m
,
30 April–8 May 2002
(
S.M. Paiero
) #debu00178285 in
UDEL
.
This
might represent an unrecognized species but might possibly be sexually dimorphic; however, when this occurs in other
Cercopoidea
it is usually the male rather than the female that has larger and more numerous antennal pits.