Monecphora sipolisi ( Fallou, 1890 )

Carvalho, Gervásio Silva, Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Webb, Michael D., 2016, Two new species of the Neotropical spittlebug genus Monecphora Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with key and notes of species of the genus, Zootaxa 4078 (1), pp. 143-152 : 150

Monecphora sipolisi ( Fallou, 1890)

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Sphenorhina sipolisi Fallou, 1890: 352 .

Monecphora sipolisi ; Carvalho & Webb, 2005: 78, fig. 363 (lateral habitus).

Material examined. BRAZIL: Minas Gerais: 1 female, Passa Quatro ( FIOC); 1 female, Minas Gerais ( BMNH); Rio Grande do Sul: 1 female, Cerro Azul ( MAPA); 1 female (no locality) Fry coll. 1905. 100 ( BMNH).

Remarks. The specimen from Minas Gerais (BMNH) lacks the yellow band on the pronotum of other specimens and the other BMNH specimen is smaller (10mm) than other specimens. The syntype (s) from Brazil (MNHN) could not be found in Fallou’s collection (MNHN). According to the pin holes under the specimen name in the collection (pers. com. Adeline Soulier-Perkins) one or more specimens were present at some time in the past.

Figures

FIGURES 10 – 17. Monecphora species, dorsal habitus and genitalia. 10 – 14. Monecphora machadoi sp. nov. (male paratype); 10. dorsal habitus; 11. male pygofer and subgenital plate, lateral view; 12. paramere, external lateral view; 13. aedeagus, lateral view; 14. aedeagus, posterior view; 15. M. nigritarsis; 16. M. semilutea; 17. M. sipolisi. Scale bars = 1 mm.