Oncometopia facialis Signoret 1854
Creators: name: Dellapé, Gimena
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Oncometopia
Oncometopia facialis

description: Oncometopia facialis (Signoret 1854)
Diagnosis. Crown, pronotum and scutellum violaceous; disc of crown with dark spot triangular extending rearward of ocelli; clypeus violaceous with basal half portion dark; forewings coriaceous and dark until apical cells, with yellowish veins, membranous apex; anal veins separate, slightly close in their mean length. Male: subgenital plates short and triangular; aedeagus with five ventral processes: pair of sharp basal processes that extend laterally, medial process elongated and curved, and pair of divergent apical processes united at base.
Female terminalia. Abdominal sternite VII, in ventral view (Fig 13), with lateral margins slightly parallel, lateroposterior margins rounded, and posterior margin with shallow median emargination, elongated, whose edges have a small prominence, keeled on its outer side; surface with numerous scattered microsetae. Pygofer, in lateral view, slightly produced posteriorly; surface with scattered microsetae, and a few macrosetae on posterior region. First valvifers, in lateral view, oval; with small spiniform processes on ventral region and fine setae on posterior margin. First ovipositor valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear or slightly broadened beyond basal curvature; dorsal sculptured area formed by scale-like processes arranged in oblique lines; ventral sculptured area formed by scalelike processes arranged irregularly; apex acute (Fig. 33), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins. Second valvulae, in lateral view, rectilinear; dorsal margin of blade convex bearing 37 to 38 noncontiguous teeth, each tooth subtriangular, declivous posteriorly, with denticles along entire dorsal margin (Fig. 53); ducts extending toward teeth and toward apical blade portion; apex rounded (Fig. 73), with denticles on dorsal and ventral margins; preapical ventral prominence conspicuous. Gonoplacs, in lateral view, with a few apical setae; apex rounded.
Material examined. ARGENTINA. Salta: Quebrada Río Blanco, 1♀, I/1923, Vattuone. Misiones: Dep. Concepción, Santa María, 1♀, X/1946, M.J. Viana (MACN); San Javier, 1♂, 20/XI/1973, Tonsic & Willink. Tucumán: Aconquija, 1♀, XII/1950, R. Golbach (IMLA). Misiones: Route 211 km 36, 26 °55´55´´S 54°43´4´´W, 1♀, 5/I/2008, light trap, C.H. Dietrich (INHS); Loreto, 1♀, 21/IX/2003, G. Logarzo; Eldorado, 2♂, X/2008, Logarzo & Palottini; Iguazú, 3♂ 10♀, XII/2008, Zamudio & Colleselli Gomez de Olivera; Eldorado, Cueva Miní, 26°22,29´S 54°39,65´W, 1♂, 13/II/2012, hand collection, G. Dellapé; Puerto Rico, 2♀, 22/II/2012, 26°49,463´S 55°01,882´W, hand collection, G. Dellapé (MLP).
Distribution. Mexico (Azevedo-Filho & Carvalho 2006), Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay (Young 1968, Emmrich 1975), Uruguay (Emmrich 1984), Brazil and Argentina: Tucumán (Melichar 1925), Misiones (Remes Lenicov et al. 1999), Corrientes, Salta, Catamarca (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 528, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/244832