Abstract
Type material of 11 species from seven genera of Cercopoidea is housed at the Entomology Division of the Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. The types listed herein correspond to species described by C. Berg (10 spp.) and Lallemand (1 sp.). The collection contains 24 type specimens. Lectotype and paralectotypes of Deois (Deois) knoblauchii (Berg), Kanaima katzensteinii (Berg), Mahanarva (Ipiranga) aguirrei (Berg), Tomaspis argentina Berg [= Deois terrea (Germar)], T. perezii Berg [= Deois terrea (Germar)] and T. platensis Berg are designated. Comparison of their original descriptions with the label information supports the existence of 2 holotypes, 6 lectotypes, 10 paralectotypes and 6 syntypes. The following information is given for each species: original species names, taxonomic catalogue, bibliographic references, type category, number of specimens, gender, Museo de La Plata code numbers, and transcription of data from labels (country, province, locality, date of collection, collector’s name, and hosts). Information about subsequent nomenclatural changes with corresponding references, the state of preservation of the specimens in each series and pictures of each species are also provided.
Highlights
The Cicadomorpha encompasses leafhoppers and treehoppers (Membracoidea), cicadas (Cicadoidea) and spittlebugs (Cercopoidea), by far the most diverse plant-feeding hemipteran superfamily
Two species of two genera were recorded in Argentina and the type material of one of them was deposited in the Museum collection
For Clastopteridae Clastopterinae, approximately 152 species of 7 genera were recorded for America, Africa and Southeast Asia, 100 species were recorded from America and only two species of the genus Clastoptera Germar are present in Argentina (Metcalf, 1962; Hamilton, 2015); both were deposited in the Museum collection
Summary
The Cicadomorpha encompasses leafhoppers and treehoppers (Membracoidea), cicadas (Cicadoidea) and spittlebugs (Cercopoidea), by far the most diverse plant-feeding hemipteran superfamily. This species, originally described as Philaenus Stål by Berg (1884), was transferred to Ptyelus Le Peletier & Serville by Lallemand (1912: 38).
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