Tungurahuala basilisca
| Notice: | This page is derived from the original publication listed below, whose author(s) should always be credited. Further contributors may edit and improve the content of this page and, consequently, need to be credited as well (see page history). Any assessment of factual correctness requires a careful review of the original article as well as of subsequent contributions.
If you are uncertain whether your planned contribution is correct or not, we suggest that you use the associated discussion page instead of editing the page directly. This page should be cited as follows (rationale):
Citation formats to copy and paste
BibTeX: @article{Dietrich2011ZooKeys124, RIS/ Endnote: TY - JOUR Wikipedia/ Citizendium: <ref name="Dietrich2011ZooKeys124">{{Citation See also the citation download page at the journal. |
Ordo: Hemiptera
Familia: Cicadellidae
Genus: Tungurahuala
Name
Tungurahuala basilisca Kramer – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Tungurahuala basiliscus Kramer 1965[1]: 68 [incorrect original spelling]
Redescription
Length male 7.6–7.9. Head (male) approximately ¼ length of forewing. Forewing dark brown to black. Male anal tube with apical ventrolateral spines very weakly developed or absent. Aedeagus with gonopore-bearing shaft in lateral view broad, apex obliquely truncate, posteroapical margin concave; ventral process with pair of microtrichiate dorsolateral lobes, in ventral view abruptly expanded preapically, apex broadly bilobed, in lateral view with apex convergent toward shaft and with dorsal margin entire.
Material examined
Holotype male: ECUADOR: Mt. Tungurahua, Baños, 2500m, August 20, 1937 (W. Clarke-Macintyre) [USNM]. Other material: 1 male, COLOMBIA, Cundinamarca, PNN Chingaza Charrascales, 4°31'N, 73°45'W, 2990m, Malaise, 4–18 October 2001 (L. Cifuentes), M.2551 [HIC]; 1 male, Cundinamarca, PNN Chingaza Alto de la Bandera, 4°31'N, 73°45'W, 3660m, Malaise, 30 March -12 April 2001 (L. Cifuentes), M.1585 [HIC]; 1 male, same data except 27 December 2001–11 January 2002 (E. Raigoso), M.3023 [INHS].
Notes
The specimens examined from Colombia are here considered conspecific with the holotype from Ecuador, although there is slight variation among specimens in size, coloration, and the shape of the aedeagus. Given the small number of specimens available, it seems prudent to consider these minor variations to be intra-specific, despite the considerable geographic disjunction among the known populations.
Although Kramer (1965)[1] did not explicitly indicate the gender of the name Tungurahuala, it is here interpreted as feminine due to its ending (ICZN Art. 30.2.4). Thus, Kramer's original spelling of the species name, which has a masculine ending, is incorrect and the spelling here emended to agree in gender with the genus name.
Taxon Treatment
- Dietrich, C; 2011: Tungurahualini, a new tribe of Neotropical leafhoppers, with notes on the subfamily Mileewinae (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae) ZooKeys, 124: 19-39. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kramer J (1965) Studies of Neotropical leafhoppers. I. (Homoptera: Cicadellidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 67: 65-74.
Images
|
