Alchisme frontomaculata Creão-Duarte and Sakakibara

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 : 5-6

Alchisme frontomaculata Creão-Duarte and Sakakibara

Alchisme frontomaculata Creão-Duarte and Sakakibara, 1997c: 459 , Figs. 106–110 [line drawings: frontal, lateral and dorsal view, male genitalia].

Original repository: MZSP.

Holotype female from BRAZIL: São Paulo: Campos do Jordão: "São Paulo \ Campos do Jordão \ 23.XII.1944 \ F[rederico]. Lane col.", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[red label] HOLOTYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão-Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997". Holotype pinned through right side of body, in excellent state of preservation.

7 female paratypes, same locality as previous: " XII -[19] 47 \ SÃO PAULO \ Campos do Jordão \ Col. Frederico Lane ", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[yellow label] PARATYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão- Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997" [one paratype lacking the second label]. Double-mounted on minuten, in excellent state of preservation, except for one female with a broken pronotum, lacking the apex of the posterior process. 6 female and 3 male paratypes, same locality as previous, "São Paulo \ Campos do Jordão \ 20.XII.1944 \ F[rederico]. Lane col.", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA", "[yellow label] PARATYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão-Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997". In these paratypes, the collection date printed in the first label can be 16.XII (one female) 18.XII (female and 2 males), 20.XII (male), 23.XII (2 females), and 26.XII (2 females). Specimens pinned through right side of body, one male and one female (18.XII and 26.XII) lacking right mesothoracic leg, one male and one female (18.XII and 26.XII) with legs missing tarsomeres.

Paratype male from BRAZIL: Santa Catarina: São Bento do Sul: " BRASIL \ Rio Vermelho \ Est[ado]º [de] S[an]ta. Catar [ina]. \ Col[lection]. DIRINGS[hofen] \ [reverse] MAR [ch] 1960", "[yellow label] PARATYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão-Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997". Double-mounted on minuten.

Paratype female from BRAZIL: Santa Catarina: Campo Alegre: " Fragosos -S [an] ta Catarina \ Brasil - 10.III.1981 \ Marcos. Coletor ", "[yellow label] PARATYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão-Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997". Pinned through right side of the body, prothoracic and metathoracic legs missing tarsomeres. Paratype female from BRAZIL: Rio Grande do Sul: Porto Alegre: " anno \ 1926 \ Rio Grande \ do Sul \ P [orto]. Alegre \ P. Bud [?] III.", "[yellow label] PARATYPUS ", " Alchisme \ frontomaculata \ Creão-Duarte & \ Sakakibara, 1997". Specimen pinned through right side of body, in good state of preservation.

Remarks. 21 specimens (17 females and 4 males) from BMNH and MZSP are designated as paratypes, however, the authors did not specify the number of paratypes per institution.