Allocyphotes insolita Gonzalez-Mozo & Ware 2023, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura C.
name: Ware, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Membracidae
Allocyphotes
Allocyphotes insolita

description: Allocyphotes insolita (Goding, 1926), comb. nov.
(Figures. 4; 14A,B; 15A,B; 16A,B; 17A; 18A; 19A; 20A–D; 23; 24)
Cyphotes insolita Goding 1926:106–107 [new species, type loc: Tena, Ecuador]; Metcalf & Wade, 1965 a: 616 [Catalogued]; McKamey, 1998: 469 [Catalogued].
Diagnosis. Length 7 mm; humeral angles trilobate (Fig. 16A ha); pronotum, preapical part of posterior pronotal process with two distinctive cone-shaped swellings (Fig.15A); female second valvulae with one tooth on dorsal surface (Fig. 19A).
Description. (Modified from Goding, 1926). Color. Pronotum light brown with a broad brown stripe extending from the apex of head to the posterior swellings, humeral angles, vertex and frontoclypeus dark brown. Male dark brown stripe markedly wider than female extending dorsolaterally, light brown coloration restricted to a small area in the sides of pronotum (Figs. 15B, 16B; 23; 24). Sculpture. Pubescent with yellow setae over the pronotum, pronotum punctured, finely tuberculate on metopidium, with irregular raised lines on each side of carina media. Head. In anterior view, frontoclypeus extended about 0.5 mm beyond margin of suprantennal ledges apex acute (Fig. 14A). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view, metopidium tuberculate, a small peak raises above humeral angles, preapical area of pronotum conical, apical part of posterior process with an elevated transversal line of knots ending gradually in an acute apex (Fig. 15A). In dorsal view, humeral angles extended laterally in an auricular process (Fig. 17A). Forewings. Hyalin, without macula on apical cells, s crossvein at same point of r-m (Fig. 17A). Abdomen. Male. Subgenital plate, view dorsal margin truncate (Fig. 20A); lateral plate, dorsal margin rounded (Fig. 20B), aedeagus with corona markedly concave, margin lateral and dorsal with denticulli (Fig. 20C); style sigmoidal, superior margin notably pointed, in posterior view distal area of style curved laterally (Fig. 20D). Female. First valvulae. Ventral interlocking device convex, without preapical prominence in dorsal or ventral margin (Fig. 18A). Second valvulae blade-shaped with one tooth on dorsal surface (Fig. 19A).
Measurements. male/female (mm). Total length 5.63/6.28; head width 1.88/1.65; head length 1.34/1.45; pronotum length 4.73/5.38; distance between apices of humeral angles 3.04/3.76.
Distribution. Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela.
Material examined. BOLIVIA, Santa Cruz, 3.7 Km SSE Buena Vista, hotel Flora & Fauna, 430 m. 14– 19X-2000. Coll M. C. Thomas Tropical Transition Forest (FSCA: 1 female) || BRAZIL, Rondonia, 62 km SW Ariquemea, nr Fzda. Rancho Grande, 5–17-X-1993, JE Eger & LB & CW O’Brien. (USNM: 1 female); 1 male, || Santa Catarina. [no other data. (CAS: 1 female), || ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1k S, Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent, 216.3m, 00° 39’ 25.7” S 076° 27’ 10.8” W, 3-X-1996, Fogging terre firme forest, Lot #1730, #1722 T.L. Erwin, (USNM: 1 female; 1 male) || PERU, Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata, Res. 30km (air) SW, Pto. Maldonado, 290M, 12°50’S, 069°17’W, [no date given], Smithsonian Institution Canopy Fogging Project, T.L. Erwin et al. (USNM: 3 females) || Madre de Dios, Rio Tambopata, Res. 30km (air) SW, Pto. Maldonado, 290M, 12°50’S, 069°17’W, Smithsonian Institution Canopy Fogging Project, T.L. Erwin et al. colls 10-IX-1984, 02/02/067, (USNM: 1 female) || VENEZUELA, Territorio, Amazonas: Cerro de la Neblina, base camp. 140 m. alt. 19-FEB-1984. Rozen & Stupakoff (AMNH: 1 female).
Comments. Male genitalia of A. insolita is similar to A. waoraniorum but differ in the dentition of the aedeagal corona, which is present in A. insolita, the dorsal margin of style, which is pointed in A. waoraniorum sp. nov., and pronotal morphology, which is strongly reticulate in A. waoraniorum. Allocyphotes insolita shows a marked sexual dimorphism (Figs. 14B; 15B; 16B; 23; 24), with male color pattern and size differing from females: males are darker, and females are approximately 0.8 mm longer than males. This species is newly recorded from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela (Fig. 22). Specimens were collected in lowlands between 130–430 meters altitude. Specimens of A. insolita have been found on Citrus sp. (Rutaceae) and Trema micrantha (Cannabaceae), although breeding host plants have not yet been determined. Field observations of species in the Cyphotes -group are scarce, here we present two photos of live A. insolita; the first made by Chris Dietrich in Coca (Puerto Francisco de Orellana), Napo, Ecuador (Fig. 23) and the second by Kelly Swing at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station, Orellana, Ecuador (Fig. 24).
description: Published as part of Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura C. & Ware, Jessica L., 2023, Review of Cyphotes Burmeister, 1835 (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with the description of a related new genus, pp. 501-525 in Zootaxa 5380 (6) on pages 514-515, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10259472