Tapajosa doeringi Berg 1879
Creators: name: Dellapé, Gimena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Tapajosa
Tapajosa doeringi

description: Tapajosa doeringi (Berg 1879)
Diagnosis. Crown, pronotum, scutellum and clypeus black, with irregular yellow spots; forewings with yellow veins and cells rufous and black; hindwing with vein R2+3 complete. Male: aedeagus short and broad, curved upwards, with pair of basal processes that may be branched.
Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig. 17), with lateral margins slightly concave, lateroposterior margins narrowly rounded, and posterior margin with elongated shallow median concavity; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, moderately produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae, and a few macrosetae on posterior region. First valvifers, in lateral view, ovoid; with small spiniform processes on posterior region and setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, slightly rectilinear; dorsal sculptured area formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; ventral sculptured area formed by scale-like processes arranged irregularly; apex acute (Fig. 37), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, slightly rectilinear; dorsal margin of blade bearing 25 to 26 continuous teeth, each tooth subtriangular with posterior side longer, with denticles on anterior and posterior margins (Fig. 57); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded (Fig. 77), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; preapical ventral prominence conspicuous. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with small spiniform processes on ventral margin; apex rounded.
Material examined. ARGENTINA. Misiones: 1♀, 1/III/1899, S. Venturi. Formosa: 1♂, IV/1898, S. Venturi. Mendoza: Cacheuta, 1♂ 1♀. Córdoba: Calamuchita, El Sauce, 3♂ 5♀, XI/1941, M.J. Viana; Argüello, 7♂ 6♀, XII/1947, De Carlo; San Javier, 1♂ 1♀, 10/I/1946. La Pampa: Conelho, 1♀, 1/II/1943, H. Hepper. Buenos Aires: San Blas, 3♂ 5♀; Bahía Blanca, 2♂ 1♀. Río Negro: 1♂ 1♀, 14/II/1898, S. Venturi; 1♂, 8/X/1899, S. Venturi; 1♀, 19/X/1899, S. Venturi; 1♀, 7/XI/1899, S. Venturi; 1♀, 14/XI/1899, S. Venturi; 1♂, 24/XI/1899, S. Venturi; 1♀, 27/ XI/1899, S. Venturi; 1♂, 4/XII/1899, S. Venturi; 1♀, 8/XII/1899, S. Venturi (MACN). Córdoba: San Ignacio, 2♂ 1♀, 7/XI/1941; Yacanto, 7♂ 7♀, Christensen; Yacanto, 2♂ 1♀. Buenos Aires: Sierra de la Ventana, 2♂, 27/II/ 1957, Torres & Ronderos; Monte Hermoso, 1♂ 1♀, 28/II/1957, Torres & Ronderos; 1♂ 1♀, VI/1938, Kägi (MLP). San Luis: Las Charcas, 1♂, 2/I/1958, Tonsic & Willink; Cortaderas, 2♂, 28/I/1958, Tonsic & Willink (IMLA).
Distribution. Peru (Dellapé et al. 2011) and Argentina (Young 1968): Misiones, Formosa, Catamarca, Córdoba, Mendoza, San Luis, La Pampa, Buenos Aires, Río Negro (Paradell et al. 2012).
description: Published as part of Dellapé, Gimena, 2015, Description of the female terminalia of twenty species of Proconiini (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from Argentina, pp. 521-539 in Zootaxa 3915 (4) on page 530, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/244832