Microsargane (Microtholia) ios Hamilton, 2016, sp.nov.
Creators: name: Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Microsargane
Microsargane ios

description: Microsargane (Microtholia) ios sp.nov.
Etymology. ios (noun in apposition), arrow
Diagnosis. Dark brown with margins and venter pale (Fig. 9 A); smaller than M. habrotes.
Description. Face tan with black muscle arcs; coronal margin, pleura and costal margin orange, veins of corium (especially at wing tips) paler brown to reddish. Male genitalia as in M. habrotes, but fused subgenital plates more evenly arched, with lateral notches halfway between prominent basal spines and tip. Length: male 8.5 mm; female unknown.
Type. Holotype male, COSTA RICA: Cartago ─ Tapanti National Park, visitor cabinas outside main gate, 1276m, 9o45.671'N 83o47.087'W, 7 Jan. 2004 (A.E.Z. Short) HG light; No. 24219 in CNC.
Microsargane (Microtholia) karykroua sp. nov.
Etymology. karykrous (adjective) nut-brown.
Diagnosis. Brown marked with pale stripes and spots (Figs 9 B–C).
Description. Orange brown, paler on sides of crown, on costa of tegmina, venter (except for blackish laterotergites and genital capsule) and dorsal median stripe (Fig. 9 B; female tegminal tips with dark brown border and irregular dark blotch across anteapical crossveins defining 1–3 pale spots on apical cells; male tegmina distinctly darker than dorsum, chocolate brown, contrasting with costa (Fig. 9 C); claval suture variable from contrasting white to scarcely paler than clavus, two contrasting white spots on central anteapical cell, the larger just above base of outer anteapical cell, the smaller just beyond crossvein m-cu on apical cell. Coronal margin carinate at antennal ledge, becoming only angular on tylus (first muscle arc of face visible from dorsal aspect). Male subgenital plates wider at tip than at base, almost half as wide as genital segment (Fig. 57 D); style nearly parallelmargined with numerous setae on dorsal surface near midlength, and tip sharply angled dorsad and tapered to point (Fig. 57 A); theca narrow, 9 × as long as wide in lateral aspect (Fig. 57 B, almost 20 × as long as wide in caudal aspect, bearing 3 pairs of filiform appendages (Fig. 57 C). Length: male 6.7–7.4 mm, female 7.5–8.3 mm.
Types. Holotype male, COSTA RICA: S. Jose Pr. ─ 19 km N Sn. Isidro, km 117 [on] Pan-Am. Hwy., 1750m [ASL], 20–25 VI 97, mont. For. F [light] I[ntercept] T[rap] (S. & J. Peck) 97–23. Paratypes; 10 males, 9 females, same data as holotype; 1 male, COSTA RICA: Guanacaste ─Cacao Field Stn. 1100–1250m, 12 Feb. 1996 (S.A. Marshall), residue; 1 female, COSTA RICA: Punta [renas]─Sta. Elena Cloud For. Res., 1700 m [ASL], IX-8-1998 (C.W. & L.B.O’Brien); 1 male, Puntarenas ─ Golfito, 1 July 1976 (M. Wasbauer) along forest trail. All types in AMNH, except 2 paratypes No. 24220 in CNCI, 1 male in UCAB, 1 female in ILNHS and 1 male in UGIC.
Microsargane (Microtholia) sobria sp. nov.
Etymology. sobria (adj.), not drunk, serious.
Diagnosis. Externally resembling the nominate subgenus but with male genitalia of the Microtholia type.
Description. Male with dorsum blackish brown, female frons pale brown, at least at tip, clypellus and muscle arcs darker; legs and rostrum pale brown, contrasting with blackish brown venter; tegmina dark brown, in male with apex of costa white, apical cells pale brown bordered with dark veins, and 2 oblique pale stripes across anteapical cells, in female with slightly paler costal plaque and small, pale dashes before and after large, triangular hyaline area near apex of costa. Pecten of baritarsomere with 6 spines, that of second hind tarsomere with 8–9 spines in male, 7 in female. Male subgenital plates broadly rounded, tip setose, with small preapical notch on each side and basal spines directed mesad (Fig. 56 D); pygofer with broadly furcate process (Fig. 56 A), its longer process directed mesad (Fig. 56 F); style straight, tip angled dorsad, margined with long setae on preapical concavity (Fig. 56 E); theca lamellate, armed with 2 pairs of long, retrorse processes with enlarged bases (Figs 56 B–C). Length: male 6.6 mm, female 6.6–6.7 mm.
Types. Holotype male, COSTA RICA: Punt. ─Monte Verde Res., 16 Aug. 1986 (L. Masner). Paratypes: 4 females, same data as holotype. All types No. 24231 in CNCI.
Other specimens: dark females without associated males, from BELIZE: Toledo, 25m [sic] NW Punta Gorda, Salamanca, 28 Aug.–4 Sept. 1978 (P.S. Broomfield) primary/ secondary forest, in BMNH; GUATEMALA: Tikal ruins, 2 Sept. 1972 (G.F. & S. Hevel), in NMNH; MEXICO: Chiapas, Município de Ocosingo, 70–75 km SW Palenque on road to Ocosingo 762 m, 31 Aug. 1981 (D.E. & P.M. Breedlove), in CAAS.
description: Published as part of Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, pp. 201-250 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on pages 216-217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262585