Allocyphotes robertoi Gonzalez-Mozo & Ware 2023, sp. 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 robertoi

description: Allocyphotes robertoi Gonzalez-Mozo sp. nov.
(Figures. 14F; 15F; 16F; 17D; 18E; 18E, F; 20M–P)
Diagnosis. Pronotum in lateral view, with two rounded swellings; female second valvula with five teeth on dorsal surface.
Description. Color. General color light brown, head and legs dark brown, metopidium with a V-shaped black band, pronotum with black band behind humeral angles, posterior process with a small transversal black line. Male, dark brown with light brown bands in posterior process. Sculpture. Metopidium and carina media tuberculate, covered with small knots, apex of pronotum with a transversal line of knots. Head. In lateral view vertex concave (Fig. 15F), frontoclypeus apex truncate (Fig. 14F). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view sinuate, preapical part of posterior pronotal process subdivided into two selling one anterior elevated, rounded, followed by a smaller conicalshaped swelling (Fig. 15F); in dorsal view, humeral angles strongly developed laterally (Fig. 16F). Forewing. s crossvein present, posterior to r-m, macula present in apical cells I, II, III, and limbo apical (Fig. 17D). Abdomen. Male. Subgenital and lateral plate margin dorsal truncate (Figs. 20M, N); aedeagus in lateral view scoop-shaped, concave, corona denticulate, gonopore membrane slightly produced posteriorly (Fig. 20O); style slender throughout with apex acute, margin dorsal curved (Fig. 20P). Female. First valvulae. VID convex, apex acute (Fig.18E). Second valvulae. with four teeth in dorso-apical margin (Fig. 19E).
Etymology. This species is named in loving memory of Roberto Emilio Mozo Sanchez.
Material exanimated. Holotype male, pinned. (♂ QCAZ 273216). Original Label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1 Km S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent. 216.3 m alt S 00°39’25.7” 76°27’10.8” 21-Jun-1996 T.L Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest lot#1557 || Paratype female, pinned. (♀ QCAZ 273217). Original label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1 Km S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent. 216.3 m alt S 00°39’25.7” 76°27’10.8” 2-Jul-1995 T.L Erwin et al. Fogging terre firme forest lot#1083.
Comments. This species is most similar to A. pompanoni comb. nov. (see comments A. pompanoni). Males of A. robertoi differ in being smaller and lighter in coloration than females. The three new species here described are from Ecuador (see Fig. 22), all from the same location: Reserva Etnica Waorani in Orellana, Ecuador, collected by T. Erwin et al. The distribution of these species may be wider but their discovery in one small area suggests that many membracid species remain to be discovered in the canopy of the neotropical forest.
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 522-524, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10259472