Deois knoblauchii (Berg)
- Dataset
- Cercopoidea types (Hemiptera-Cicadomorpha) housed at the Museo de la Plata entomological collection (Argentina)
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cercopidae
- genus
- Deois
- species
- Deois knoblauchii
description
Original Description: “ Parum sericei, capite cum fronte, pronoto, scutello, apice excepto, femoribus ad partem tarsisque, nec non tegminibus, maculis tribus exceptis, aenescenti-nigris; rostro, pectore maximam partem, dorso abdominis, ventre pedibusque, nec non tegminum maculis tribus, una angusta basali, alteris duabus costalibus, rubris; capite antice subangulato, utrimque mediocriter impresso, medio obsolete carinato; fronte convexa, distincte carinata; pronoto antice dense seríceo, medio obsoletissime carinato; scutello profunde impresso, apice obscure rubro; tegminibus sat deflexis, apicem versus nonnihil angustatis, basi rubris, macula prima costae subtriangulari, altera quadrangulari; alis subhyalinis vel fuscescentibus; prosterno nigricanti; mesosterno, metasterno, dorso abdominis, ventre pedibusque laete aut obscure rubris; femoribus interdum offuscatis; spina basali tibiarum posticarum párvula. Long. corp. 6 - 7; tegm. 7; lat. Pron. 2 ½ mm ”. Translation: Opaque, head with the frons, pronotum, scutellum except the apex, femur and part of tarsus as well as the tegmina, except the three spots, reddish black; rostrum, most of the ventral surface of thorax, dorsal and ventral surface of abdomen, and the three spots on the tegmen, a narrow basal and two in the costal margin, ruby red. Head with apex subangular, slightly punctured on each side, with a slightly marked median carina; frons convex, with a strongly marked carina; pronotum opaque anterioly, very slightly carinated (medio obsoletissime carinato); scutellum deeply punctured, reddish black at apex; tegmina bend downward at apex, slightly narrowing towards apex, red at base, first costal spot subtriangular and the second quadrangular; wings sub-hyaline or darkness; prosternum darkish; mesosternum and metasternum, dorsal and ventral surface of the abdomen and legs dark reddish; femora darkened; basal spine of the metatibia small. Body length: 6 - 7 mm; tegmina: 7 mm; pronotum width: 2 ½ mm.
discussion
Remarks: All the specimens labelled as “ typus ” by Berg and treated as syntypes by Carvalho & Webb (2005) are designated here as lectotype and paralectotypes (ICZN, art. 74.1.1). This species was originally described as Tomaspis Amyot & Serville by Berg (1879), transferred to Deois (Pandysia) by Fennah (1953: 357) and later placed as Deois (Deois) by Costa & Sakakibara (2002: 197). The original publication indicates that five specimens were used for the description of the species, but only three are deposited. Paralectotype 1732 / 2 lacks left mesothoracic leg, tibia and tarsi of right metathoracic leg and has abdomen dissected in vials with glycerine. Paralectotype 1732 / 3 lacks right mesothoracic leg.
materials_examined
Lectotype, male, MLP no. 1732 / 1; Argentina, Tucumán; date and collectors unknown. Paralectotype, male, MLP no. 1732 / 2; Argentina, Tucumán; date and collectors unknown. Paralectotype, male, MLP no. 1732 / 3; Argentina, Catamarca; date and collectors unknown.
Name
- Homonyms
- Deois knoblauchii (Berg)