Allocyphotes flavus 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 flavus

description: Allocyphotes flavus sp. nov. Gonzalez-Mozo
(Figures. 2A, 3D, 14C; 15C; 16C; 17B; 18C; 19C; 20E–H)
Diagnosis. Humeral angle triangular, pronotum densely pubescent, female first valvulae with VID bent second valvulae without teeth on dorsal margin; male style expanded posteriorly.
Description. Color. General color dark yellow and black; head dark brown, apex of frontoclypeus black; pronotum, two longitudinal yellow bands in metopidium, mesially with irregular dark brown bands that fade in posterior pronotal process, which is light brown; legs dark brown, tarsi light brown. Sculpture. Densely pubescent (Fig. 3F), two elevated lines in the dorsal area of metopidium at each side of carina media. Head. Vertex grooved between ocelli and superior margin; frontoclypeus apex truncate (Fig. 14C). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view, preapical part pronotum arched, gradually descending to pronotal apex, posterolateral pronotal area enlarged slightly compressed (Fig. 15C). In dorsal view, humeral angles subtriangular, projected laterally, two middorsal conical peaks are raised at each side of carina media (Fig. 16C). Forewing. s crossvein posterior to r-m, macula present in III apical cells (Fig. 17B). Abdomen. Male. Subgenital and lateral plate with dorsal margin acuminate (Figs. 20E, F), aedeagus in lateral view slightly flattened (Fig. 20G), distinctly concave distally, corona denticulate, style expanded posteriorly (Fig. 20H). Female. First valvula e, ventral interlocking device (VID) sinuate, prominence preapical present in ventral margin (Fig. 18C). Second Valvulae, without tooth in dorsal margin (Fig. 19C).
Measurements. male/female (mm): Total length 6.71/7.98; head width 2.20/2.59; head length 1.29/1.59; pronotum length 6.22/7.52; width between humeral angles 3.10/ 3.89.
Etymology. The name is based on the yellow (flavus, golden-yellow) setae covering the head, pronotum, legs, and abdomen.
Distribution. Ecuador.
Material exanimated. Holotype male, pinned. (♂ QCAZ 273212). Original label “ 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-Jul-1995, T.L. Erwin et al: Fogging terre firme forest, Lot #1106.” || Paratype female, pinned. (♀ QCAZ 273213). Original label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1k S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent, 216.3 m, 00° 39’ 25.7” S 076° 27’ 10.8” W, 2-JUL-1995, T.L. Erwin, Fogging terre firme forest, Lot #1068”. Paratype male, pinned, abdomen and genitalia in vial. (USNM: 1 male) Original label “ ECUADOR, Orellana, Reserva Etnica Waorani, 1k S. Onkone Gare Camp Transect Ent, 216.3 m, 00° 39’ 25.7” S 076° 27’ 10.8” W, 8-OCT-1995, T.L. Erwin, Fogging terre firme forest, Lot #11267.
Comments. A. flavus sp. nov. can be distinguished from other Allocyphotes species by the following characters: male with style expanded posteriorly, densely pubescent pronotal sculpture. Although the humeral angles are not trilobate, they are projected laterally. Other characters such as presence of the s crossvein, posterolateral pronotal area compressed and not extended beyond humeral angles, and frontoclypeus tubular, extended 1/3 beyond suprantennal ledges support its placement in Allocyphotes.
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 517-520, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.6.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10259472