Microclimax luteosignata (Valdés Ragués) Valdes Ragues, 2016

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, Zootaxa 4169 (2), pp. 201-250 : 210-211

Microclimax luteosignata (Valdés Ragués) , comb.nov., description of male.

Tomaspis luteosignatus Valdés Ragués, 1910:445 .

Neanus luteosignatus: Metcalf and Bruner, 1944:111 .

Description. Orange-brown, abdomen reddish, crown with median brown spot in female, black stripe in male; pronotum with black spots in female, in male a black transverse bar on anterior margin, posterior three-fourths brown; scutellum brown with 2 white spots; tegmina brown, each marked with 5 white spots on basal two-thirds and 2 dark brown blotches near tip (male in Fig. 2 A; female in Carvalho & Webb (2005, figs 815–816). Length: male 11–13.2 mm, female 10–12 mm.

Type. Holotype female, CUBA: num. 325; in Gunlach Collection, Havana (fide Metcalf and Bruner 1944), examined by Metcalf.

Other specimens: CUBA: 1 male, Holguín Prov., Estación Ecológica , 20.48613°N, 75.79152°W, 656m, 10 May 2013 (A.B.T. Smith, R. Anderson, G. Zhang) MV lights, in CNCI ; 1 male, L.V. Prov., Topes do Collantes , Sierre de Trinidad, 11 June 1959 (M.V. Sanderson) C59-26 at light, in ILNHS ; 1 female, same locality, 640 m, S.C., 15 Sept. [18]91 (A.R. Otero) no. 11.113, in NCSU. The female is apparently the single specimen mentioned by Metcalf and Bruner (1944) although the size given by them (12 mm) is much larger than that of the female specimen examined (10.4 mm) and the reported size of the type (10 mm).

Remarks. Although the sample size is small, this appears to be one of the few Auchenorrhyncha in which males are distinctly larger than macropterous females. The only previous reported case in Cercopoidea ( Paladini 2011) is based on a submacropterous female in which the tegmina are abbreviated and the hindwings absent whereas the male is macropterous.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Examples of Microsarganini (1 – 3), Neaenini (4 – 5) and genera related to Phymatostetha (6 – 8) in dorsolateral aspect (A), dorsal aspect (B), lateral or ventrolateral aspect of head and thorax (C) and hind wing characters including detail of costal margin (D): 1, Microsargane sp.; 2, Microclimax luteosignatus; 3, Microlaqueus isolatus; 4, Helioptera gilvum; 5, Tomaspisinella lucifer sp. nov.; 6, Olcotomaspis laterinotata (Fowler), comb. nov.; 7, Hyalotomaspis clarissa (Jacobi); 8, Tomaspisina frontalis (Walker).