Orthorapha

Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2013, Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea), Zootaxa 3710 (3), pp. 201-225 : 213-214

Orthorapha (s.s.) laeta Jacobi

Orthorapha laeta Jacobi, 1921: 23 .

Orthorapha cassidioides var. nigra Schmidt, 1931: 66 (new synonymy).

Diagnosis. Head and dorsum black; hind wings absent. Tip of head dark brown, or (in palest form) head entirely ferruginous, with median line of notum brown; metathorax and hind coxae orange, abdomen and hind legs dark brown. Tegmina broadly rounded at tip, usually boldly marked with orange on apical quarter of tegmina ( Fig. 33 B) and sometimes with an orange band also across basal third, as in holotype ( Fig. 33 A). Theca lamellate, sinuate in lateral aspect, apical half straight, slender, weakly tapered to rounded tip ( Fig. 4 A). Length: male 5.7 mm, female 5.7–6.0 mm. Width across pronotum: 2.2–2.4 mm.

Type. Holotype of laeta , male, [ BRAZIL: Pará]—Obidos? [sic]; in SMFT. Holotype of nigra, male, BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro —Itatiaya (in Académie Polonaise des Sciences, Institut Zoologique, Warszawa; not examined).

Additional material. Seven females from BRAZIL: Santa Catharina —Corupa, Rio Natal and Rio Vermelho, in AMNH and CNC.

Remarks. The orange-and-black pattern is variable ( Fig. 33 A–B) in three short series. The small size (5 mm) and entirely black wings associate the male holotype of nigra with the dark variety of this species.

Figures

FIGURE 33. Lateral aspect of the nominate subgenus of Orthorapha (A – E) and subgenus Balsania (F – L). A – B, color varieties of O. laeta Jacobi; C, O. cassidioides Westwood, male; D, same, female; E, O. invidia sp. nov.; F, O. inflata sp. nov.; G, O. concinna (Stål); H, O. geminata (Jacobi); J, O. sagittata sp. nov.; K, O. reducta Walker; L, O. testacea Walker. Scale line: 1 mm.

FIGURES 3 – 17. Male theca of Orthorapha s. s. (3 – 5), subgenus Balsania (6 – 7) and Lepyronoxia (8 – 17), lateral (A) and caudal aspect of tip (B): 3, O. cassidioides; 4, O. laeta; 5, O. invidia; 6, O. reducta; 7, O. sagittata; 8, O. obscurata; 9, O. inscripta; 10, O. decorata; 11, O. oculata; 12, O. bufo; 13, O. rana (type of O. glabrata); 14, O. subfasciata; 15, O. frontalis; 16, O. quadrimaculata; 17, O. sphaerata. Scale line: 0.05 mm.