Sphongophorus trilobosus Fonseca and Diringshofen

Evangelista, Olivia, Santos, Guilherme Ide Marques Dos & Lamas, Carlos Einicker, 2014, An annotated catalogue of the Membracidae types in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadomorpha), Zootaxa 3895 (1), pp. 1-30 : 27

Sphongophorus trilobosus Fonseca and Diringshofen

Sphongophorus trilobosus Fonseca and Diringshofen, 1969a: 151 , Fig. 6 [line drawings: lateral and dorsal view, detail of the tip of posterior process of pronotum].

Cladonota trilobosa (Fonseca and Diringshofen) ; McKamey, 1997a: 8 [new combination]; McKamey, 1998a: 190. Original repository: CRVD.

Female syntype from: ARGENTINA: Misiones: unknown municipality: " ARGENTINA \ Missiones \ Dirings[hofen collection.] \ [reverse] OUT 1964", " Sphongophorus \ trinodosus [sic] \ J. P. Fonseca det 1969 ", "[red label] Cotypus", "col. \ Dr. Alejandro \ Oglobin \ Argent[ina]." Double-mounted on minuten, anterior process broken approximately at the middle, glued on breaking spot, tip of anterior process broken; left hindwing folded, metathoracic legs lacking tarsomeres.

Male syntype, same locality as previous, " ARGENTINA \ Missiones \ Dirings[hofen collection.] \ [reverse] OUT 1964", " Sphongophorus \ trinodosus [sic] \ J. P. Fonseca det 1969 ", "[red label] Cotypus", "col. Alejandro \ Oglobin \ MISSIONES \ Argent[ina]." Double-mounted on minuten, anterior process broken approximately at the middle.

Female syntype, same locality and label data as previous. Double-mounted on minuten, anterior process broken approximately at the middle; left metathoracic leg lacking tarsomeres, right metathoracic leg lacking segments after femur.