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.)
lucifer
sp.nov.
Etymology.
lucifer
(noun in apposition), light bearer.
Diagnosis.
Brown with yellow spot at tip of head (
holotype
) or black with white spot at tip of head (
paratypes
).
Description.
A prominent white spot on costa of tegmen (a minute pale spot also on claval suture in
1 paratype
). Pronotum longitudinally furrowed as in
T. caligata
but with median carina obscure. Male pygofer depressed, almost continuous with vertical male subgenital plates tapered to decurved hooked tip (
Fig. 29
A), separated by narrow slit (
Fig. 29
D); styles slightly arched at midlength, tapered to rounded tip bearing a few small setae; phallobase with long dorsal extension curving cephalad at top (
Fig. 29
B); theca curving cephalad, narrowing towards midlength, bearing a pair of retrorse processes at tip extending half way to base (
Fig. 29
C). Length: male 5.5–6.5 [
holotype
] mm; female unknown.
Types
.
Holotype
male, C[
OSTA
] R[
ICA
]
:
Puntarenas
—
Monteverde
,
1500 m
cloud forest,
25 June–2 July 1983
(
H.F. Howden
) debu00260096, FIT; from
UGIC
,
No.
24226 in
CNCI
.
Paratypes
:
2 males
, COSTA RICA,
Alajuela
—ACG Sect. San Critobal; Potrero
Argentina
,
10.890o N
85.388o W
520m
,
10–16 July 2007
(
D.H. Jansen
et al.
), in
NCSU
.