Ceratotingis rafaeli Montemayor, 2008

Costa, Sara Itzel Montemayor and Luiz Antônio Alves, 2009, Systematic revision of Macrotingis and phylogenetic analysis of the genera Macrotingis and Ceratotingis (Heteroptera: Tingidae), Eur. J. Entomol. 106 (4), pp. 631-642 : 639

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scientific name	Ceratotingis rafaeli Montemayor, 2008
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Ceratotingis rafaeli Montemayor, 2008: 444 .

Diagnosis. General colour brown. Cuticle anterodorsal to eyes thicker, raised, yellowish and rugose. Occipital spines abruptly diverging. Segment Imore than five times longer than the head. Hood well developed. Median pronotal carina in the form of a hump. Paranota with two rows of areolae. Mesosternal lamina convex, both laminae more separated anteriorly than posteriorly. Costal area with one row of areolae.

Total body length (females N = 5 and males N = 5, respectively): 3.93–4.26 (4.14) 3.93–4.40 (4.21).

Type material examined. Holotype: ♀, Panama, Colon Province, Y. Basset Coll., 1999, Beating/hand collecting, collected on sapling trees ( NMNH) . Paratypes six males, eight females, same collecting data ( NMNH) .

Distribution ( Fig. 7). Panama.

References

MONTEMAYOR S. I. 2008: A new genus and two new species of Tingidae (Heteroptera) from Central America. Zool. Sci. 25: 444 - 450.

Abbreviations

NMNH	USA, Washington D.C., National Museum of Natural History, [formerly, United States National Museum]
NMNH	Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History