Cercopoidea types (Hemiptera-Cicadomorpha) housed at the Museo de la Plata entomological collection (Argentina)
Author
Foieri, Alvaro
Author
Lenicov, Ana Maria Marino de Remes
text
Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia
2019
2019-04-03
59
1
10
journal article
6039
10.11606/1807-0205/2019.59.16
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1807-0205
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Kanaima katzensteinii
(Berg)
(
Fig. 6
)
1879.
Anales de la Sociedad Científica
Argentina
,
VIII: 233.
Tomaspis katzensteinii
Berg, 1879: 233
.
Kanaima katzensteinii
(Berg)
comb. n.
by
Distant, 1909: 213
.
Lectotype
, male,
MLP
no. 1735/1;
Argentina
,
Corrientes
; date and collectors unknown.
Paralectotype
, female,
MLP
no. 1735/2
;
Argentina
,
Buenos Aires
, date and collectors unknown
.
Paralectotype
, female,
MLP
no. 1735/3
;
Argentina
,
Entre Ríos
, Concepción del
Uruguay
; date and collectors unknown.
Original Description:
“Fusci, capite parteque anteriore pronoti piceis vel nigris, tegminibus fuliginosis, dilute fuscis aut luteis; capite magniusculo, punctato, medio obsolete carinato; vértice leviter impresso, antice semicirculariter rotundato, medio subcarinato, carina ad basin tubérculo punctiformi et obsoleto instructa; fronte sat tumida, fere semiglobosa, transversim punctato-striata, medio carina obsoleta praedita; pronoto dense punctato, antice medio nonnihil elevato et utrimque biimpresso vel subrugoso, medio basin versus subtilissime sulcato; scutello transverse rubuloso, medio impresso; tegminibus sublibratis, apicem versus nonnihil angustatis, limbo rotundato; alis hyalinis; dorso abdominis fuscescenti, apice flavido; pedibus fuscis aut luteis. Long. corp. 12-13, tegm. 10-11; lat. Pron. 3
½
-
4 mm
”.
Translation:
Fuscous, head and pronotum anteriorly dark-brown, tegmina yellowish brown. Head broadly rounded, punctate, with an insconspicuous median carina; vertex slightly punctured, rounded at anterior part and medially subcarinate, carina at base with tubercle slightly marked; frons lightly inflated, transversely sculptured-striated, with a lightly marked median carina; pronotum strongly punctured, anterior part slightly elevated with slightly punctured striae on each side, medial line finely sulcated at base; scutellum lightly transversely striated, punctate medially; tegmina moderately slender and apically rounded; dorsal surface of abdomen darkish with apex yellowish; legs darkened to yellowish. Body length:
12-13 mm
; tegmina:
10-11 mm
; pronotum width: 3
½
-
4 mm
.
Remarks:
All the specimens labelled as “typus” by Berg and treated as
syntypes
by
Carvalho & Webb (2005)
, are considered here as
lectotype
and
paralectotypes
(ICZN, art. 74.1.1). This species was originally described as
Tomaspis
Amyot & Serville
by
Berg (1879)
and transferred to
Kanaima
Distant
by
Distant (1909: 213)
.
Paralectotype
1732/2 lacks right forewing, both prothoracic legs and tarsi of left mesothoracic leg.
Paralectotype
1732/3 lacks both prothoracic legs and right mesothoracic leg.