Leioscyta quadrimaculata Fonseca

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 : 20

Leioscyta quadrimaculata Fonseca

Leioscyta quadrimaculata Fonseca, 1941a: 131 , Fig. 3 [line drawing: lateral view]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a: 1319; McKamey, 1998a: 208.

Original repository: IBSP.

3 males and female syntypes from BRAZIL: Pará: Belém: "Belem, Pará \ H. F.Sauer, leg. \ 10-X- [19]38.", "[red label] Cotypus", " Leioscyta \ quadrimacula- \ ta. Fons[eca].", "Coleção \ PINTO DA \ FONSECA" [female and one male missing latter label, third label in this male: “" Leioscyta \ quadrima- \ culata Fons[eca]."]. Syntype of undetermined sex, same locality as previous, "Belem, Pará \ H. F.Sauer, leg. \ 10-X- [19]38.", " Leioscyta \ quadrima- \ culata \ n.sp. FONS[eca].", "[red label] COTIPO".

2 syntypes of undetermined sex, same locality as previous, "Belem, Pará \ H. F.Sauer, leg. \ 10-X- [19]38.", "[red label] Cotypus", " Leioscyta \ quadriculata [sic] \ Cotipos. Fons[eca]".

All specimens double-mounted on minuten, in good conditions, legs broken at different segments. Remarks. Three syntypes (two females and one male) were designated in the original description. However, seven conspecific specimens labeled as syntypes with the same collection data were examined. They were all considered as part of the type series.