CANTACADERINAE Stål, 1873

Guilbert, Éric, 2005, Morphology and evolution of larval outgrowths of Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera), with description of new larvae, Zoosystema 27 (1), pp. 95-113 : 108

Subfamily CANTACADERINAE Stål, 1873 Tribe PHATNOMINI Drake & Davis, 1960

Phatnoma marmorata Champion, 1897 ( Fig. 22 )

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Ecuador. Napo Res. Ethnica Waorani, 1 km S Onkone gare camp, Trans. Ent., 220 m, 00°39’10”S, 76°26’W, 21. VI.1994, T. L. Erwin et al. rec., 4 fifth instars ( NMNH).

DESCRIPTION

Body entirely yellowish to brown, dorsum entirely covered with star-like projections. Body length, 2.83; width, 1.57.

Head elongate, armed with seven long, stout tubercles directed forwards, an occipital, a frontal and a jugal pairs and a single clypeal tubercle; antenniferous processes short and spiny. Antennae long and slender, antennal segment measurements: I, 0.07; II, 0.05; III, 0.67; IV, 0.23.

Pronotum with margins slightly raised and extend- ed laterally; with three marginal tubercles on each side, and a single median tubercles at the anterior and posterior margins. Tubercles short and curved, the anterior one directed forwards, the posterior one directed backwards and the middle one raised. The median tubercles shorter than the marginal one.

Figures

FIG. 22. — Phatnoma marmorata Champion, 1897, fifth larvae habitus. Scale bar: 1 mm.