Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) rana Walker, comb.nov.
Creators: name: Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Orthorapha
Orthorapha rana

description: Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) rana (Walker), comb.nov.
Lepyronia rana Walker, 1858: 191.
Lepyronia glabrata Stål, 1862a: 15 (synonymy by Jacobi 1921:24). Balsana subfasciata: Stål, 1862b: 494 (incorrect synonymy). Balsa glabrata: Stål, 1866: 384.
Balsana subfasciata: Metcalf & Wade, 1962: 193 (in part).
Diagnosis. The extensive pale marking on the face, and the greenish, punctate tegmina resemble those of O. irregularis (Fig. 35 A), but the tegmina are shorter, with less extensive pale markings (Fig. 35 F).
Description. Brown, mottled with green on corium (except on pale costal spots), face marked in male with yellow V-shaped line surmounted by short yellow median line, in female with yellow V-shaped area, the whole extending less than a third length of frons (as in Fig. 34 B); male pronotum and scutellum brown with yellow lenticular marks; anterior margin of female pronotum yellow, rest of pronotum and scutellum ferruginous; tegmina marked with bold yellow costal spot at one-third distance from base, veins and small, pale spots yellow to greenish. Head strongly produced, well produced, longer than median length of pronotum; frons strongly inflated, blunt at apex; crown weakly declivous, face not horizontal, frons not as low as clypellus at maximum expansion; head narrower than pronotum; lateral margins of pronotum much shorter than eye; tegmina shiny but minutely punctate, 1.6 × as long as broad, veins scarcely raised; hind wings as in Orthorapha concinna (Fig. 2 D). Theca shaft lamellate, widest below midlength, strongly excavated on upper half of posterior margin, tip rounded and membranous (Fig. 13 A). Length: male 7.2 mm, female 7.1–8.4 mm.
Type. Holotype female of rana, [BRAZIL: Guanabara —Lagoa de] Tijuca, Jan. 1857 (H. Clark) 57.50; in BMNH. Holotype male of glabrata, BRASIL [sic] (F. Sahlb[erg]); in NRSE. For comments on the identity of the type-locality, see O. bufo.
Additional material. BRAZIL: 1 female from: Rio de Janeiro —Teresópolis, 88–137; in BMNH. This resembles the type of rana but is entirely ferruginous except for the green dorsum and tegmina, and is smaller (7.1 mm). It may be an as yet unrecognized species, or it may be an extreme colour form of rana.
Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) sphaerata sp. nov.
Etymology. sphaerata (adjective), from the Latin for “like a ball.”
Diagnosis. Tegmina as short as those of the typical subgenus, 2 × as long as broad (Fig. 35 J), but the apical venation is the irregular meshwork of veins characteristic of Lepyronoxia.
Description. Crown sordid greenish, rest of body and tegmina mottled in palest form mostly sordid greenish with brown venter and oblique brown band across middle of tegmen ending in white spot on central anteapical cell, in darkest form mostly black with contrasting white band between eyes, oblique white band across clavus and adjacent part of corium, and various apical areas of tegmen pale, with small dash on costa before tip and a white spot on disc above it (Fig. 35 J). Head strongly produced, as long as midline of pronotum in male, slightly longer in female; frons scarcely inflated, in lateral aspect nearly pointed at apex; crown declivous, face receding in profile, frons not as low as clypellus at maximum expansion; head slightly narrower than pronotum; lateral margins of pronotum much shorter than eye; tegmina shiny and pitted, veins weakly raised, most strongly so just before tips; hind wings with venation as in O. obliqua (Fig. 2 C) but costal margin with 7 spines (as in Fig. 2 G). Male genitalia as in O. obliqua, but theca shaft more nearly tubular (Fig. 17 A). Length: male 5.2 (type) – 5.7 mm, female 6.2–6.5 mm. Width across head: male 1.9–2.0 mm, female 2.1 mm; across pronotum, 0.1 mm wider.
Types. Holotype male, BRAZIL: S [anta] Cath [arina]—Corupa (Hansa Humbolt) [west of Jaraguá do Sul], Nov. 1948 (A. Maller), the only pinned male. Paratypes: 2 males, 4 females, same data. Holotype and 4 paratypes in AMNH; 2 paratypes No. 23950 in CNCI.
Orthorapha (Lepyronoxia) subfasciata (Amyot & Serville), comb. nov.
Lepyronia subfasciata Amyot & Serville, 1843: 567. Balsa obscurata: Stål, 1866b: 384 (incorrect synonymy). Balsana subfasciata: Metcalf & Wade, 1962: 193.
Diagnosis. Similar to O. obscurata (Fig. 35 L), but with longer head, and paler cinnamon brown with prominent pale veins across tegmina.
Description. Crown distinctly longer than midline of pronotum, and frons more strongly inflated, nearly as low as clypellus at maximum expansion (Fig. 35 K), marked in both sexes with pale line across upper margin of frons broken at apex of head and surmounted by small pale dot at tip of crown. Male genitalia as in O. bufo, but theca slender and parallel-margined on apical half (Fig. 14 A). Length: male 7.5–7.9 mm, female 8.3–9.8 mm. Width across head or pronotum: male 2.8–3.0 mm, female 3.0– 3.4 mm.
Type. Location of type unknown. Described from BRAZIL.
Material examined. BRAZIL: male from Rio de Janeiro —Itatiaia, Jan. 1954 (J. Hercio) in UFRJ and 3 females from Gavea, 27 March 1937 (H.S. Lopes); Parc Nacional de Perra dos Orgaos, Teresópolis 1000m [ASL], 23–27 Apr. 1947 (Wygod.); Vale da Revolta, Teresópolis, 11 Jan. 1990 (L.B.N. Coelho), all in UFRJ; 1 female from São Paulo Botanical Garden, 13 Nov. 1971 (J. & M. Sedlacek), in BPBM.
description: Published as part of Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2013, Revision of Neotropical aphrophorine spittlebugs, part 2: tribe Orthoraphini (Hemiptera, Cercopoidea), pp. 201-225 in Zootaxa 3710 (3) on pages 223-224, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3710.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/217113