Mioscarta semperi Jacobi 1905
Creators: name: Crispolon, Elorde Jr. S.
name: Guilbert, Eric
name: Yap, Sheryl A.
name: Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cercopidae
Mioscarta
Mioscarta semperi

description: Mioscarta semperi Jacobi, 1905
Fig. 10
Mioscarta semperi Jacobi, 1905: 21.
Mioscarta semperi – Schmidt 1909: 239–240. — Lallemand 1912: 117; 1949: 84–85. — Jacobi 1927: 549.
Material examined
PHILIPPINES • ♀; “ Samar Calbayog Elev. – Sea level; 8 May 1950; R. Araneta Jr. ”, “ Eoscarta sp. Bal ’53” “ UPLBMNH HEM-04054 ” • ♂; “ Calambog Ala Valley Elev.; 8 June 1950 S;. M Cendaña” “ Eoscarta sp.1 ” “ UPLBMNH HEM-04061 ” • ♀ ♂; “ BUKIDNON Impalitaw BFD; 19 Nov. 1988; VPG” “ UPLBMNH HEM-04996, 04998 ”• 2 ♂♂; “ Philippines, Camarines Sur, Luzon isl. Mt Isarog Natural Park, Panicuason Naga ”, “Muséum Paris; 1 May 2011; S.A. Yap, M.V. Yngente, O.L. Eusebio rec.”, “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 24821 to 24822 ” • 3 ♂♂; “ Philippines Luzon Mount Isarog Light trap ”, “ Muséum Paris; 31 May 2011; S. Yap Rec ”, “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 23647, 24823 to 24824 ” • ♀; “PH. MT. Makiling Los Baños, Laguna Luz; 21 Nov. 2016; WS HWANG”, “séquençage par Elorde Crispolon C-00085”, “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 24817 ” • ♀; “ Brgy. Irosin, Sorsogon; 2 Feb. 2017; Coll. AK AMARGA”; “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 24818 ” • ♀; “ Ph. Brgy Perez, Kidapawan City; 5 May 2017; C.S. Satohito ”, “ECpc 057”, “Ph. Mt.Akir Akir, Pigcawayan, North Cotabato; 8–9 Sept. 2018; G. Biacolo, K.C. Crispolon & R. Guillermo ”; “séquençage par Elorde Crispolon C-00017”, “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 24819 ”, “Ph. Brgy Kidama, Matalam, North Cotabato; 14 Mar. 2019; K.C. Crispolon ”, “séquençage par Elorde Crispolon C-00022”, “Muséum Paris, MNHN (EH) 24820 ”.
Description
MALE TERMINALIA. In lateral view, posterior margin of pygofer regularly convex last third slightly curved (Fig. 10E). Subgenital plates (Fig. 10F) very long relative to height of pygofer with fine tapering appendage slightly longer than main plate, dorsal margin of plate regularly rounded, ventral margin straight. Sterno-lateral plate present, slightly elongated. Intermediate plate present, cylindrical, linking internal side of lateral and subgenital plates. Paramere (Fig. 10G) not globose, dorsal margin rounded and regularly curving, apex with a sharp spine pointing antero-dorsally, ventral margin regularly rounded then subapical part largely rounded, protruding and finishing with a sharp spine pointing ventrally. Aedeagus (Fig. 10H) with basal third of dorsal margin angled and sharply bent in acute angle and last 2 ⁄ 3 vertical and roughly C-shaped, slightly humped in apical part of dorsal margin before apical extension, apical extension pointing posteriorly, posterior protrusion thin very short and spine-shaped, postero-dorsal protrusion absent.
Type Locality
Philippines: Philippine Islands.
Distribution
Philippines: Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao Islands.
Remarks
According to what Jacobi (1905) mentioned at the end of the description “Mus. Berol. Nr. 9107: Semper coll., 2 Ex. ”. He examined two specimens and described this species from atleast one female without a description of the male terminalia. We illustrate and describe them here based on a specimen identified using Lallemand’s (1949) key.
description: Published as part of Crispolon, Elorde Jr. S., Guilbert, Eric, Yap, Sheryl A. & Soulier-Perkins, Adeline, 2021, New genus and new species of spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) from the Philippines, pp. 90-135 in European Journal of Taxonomy 778 on pages 111-113, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.778.1571, http://zenodo.org/record/5704978