Platybelus sericeus Capener

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 : 25

Platybelus sericeus Capener

Platybelus sericeus Capener, 1951a: 160 , Figs. 34–41 [frontal, lateral, and dorsal view of males and females, detail of tegmina, lateral view of 5th instar nymph].

Distantobelus sericeous [sic]; Capener, 1954b: 190, Pl. IV, Fig. 33 [new combination]; Metcalf and Wade, 1965a: 517; McKamey, 1998a: 112.

Original repository: see remarks.

Paratype female from NAMIBIA: Otjozondjupa: Otjiwarongo: “Abachaus \ Otjiwarongo, S.W. \ 15 April 1951 \ G. Hobohm”, “ Platybelus \ sericeus \ CAPENER”, “[light pink label] PARATYPE \ FEMALE”, “HOST PLANT \ Terminalia \ sericea”, “ Distantobelus \ sericeus (Cap[e]n[e]r.) \ Det. A. L. Capener \ [reverse] 1958”, “[light pink label] PARATYPE. Double-mounted on minuten, in good state of preservation.

Remarks. Capener (1951a) states that the female holotype and remaining paratypes (43 females and 21 males) were deposited in the British Museum, Transvaal Museum, the National Collection of Insects in Pretoria, and his personal collection (with no specification to number types per repository). Specimens from Capener’s collection could have been subsequently donated to MZSP. The label data matches the locality and dates provided in the original description.