Phylloptera picta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891
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https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2020-0058 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15634835 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DA87D4-A550-3B22-727B-FF77FD61DCE1 |
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Felipe |
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Phylloptera picta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 |
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Phylloptera picta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 View in CoL
( Figs. 1 View Figure 1 , 2 View Figure 2 and 4A View Figure 4 )
Phylloptera picta Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 , lectotype male ( MZPW), labelled “Cumbasi [green label, handwritten]”, “439” [red label], “Cumbasi\ picta \ Bruñ” [handwritten], “Type” [red label], “MIZ PAN\ WARSZAWA\ 12/1945\ 1953” [with a QR Code at the left side], specimen hereby designated, examined through photographs ; paralectotype female ( NMW), labelled “Coll. Br.v.W. \ Alto Amazonas \ Staudinger”, “det. Br.v.W. \ Phylloptera \ picta Br. ” [last two lines handwritten], “15.465” [red label, handwritten] .
The designation of a lectotype for Phylloptera picta is justified for ensuring the stability and correct use of this name. Even if the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature do not deal with group of species within a given genus, the designation could also help to delimit the boundaries of the picta species group, mainly now when a new species is described after more than a century.
When describing P. picta, Brunner von Wattenwyll (1891) did not directly mention the number of syntypes. However, some evidences support the interpretation that there were only two: (i) Brunner von Wattenwyl stated “coll. m.” (Brunner von Wattenwyll’s collection) and “coll. Dohrn” as depositories of the studied specimens. The first collection is currently housed in NMW and specimens from Stettin, including Dohrn’s collection, have been moved to Warsaw (MZPW) (Dr. Holger Braun, personal communication).We have contacted the current curators of those collections and they both were not able to find any additional specimen ofPhylloptera picta ; (ii) in the original description, Brunner von Wattenwyll presented single measurements for male and female, which suggest that there was only one male and one female. For comparison, in the description of Phylloptera roseoinflata Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1891 , three pages earlier in the very same monograph, ranges for body length as well as length and width of the tegmina of males (there was more than one male), and single measures of the conspecific female (a single specimen) was mentioned.
We also highlight that the locality of “Cumbasi” presented in the lectotype corresponds to the current San Antonio de Cumbaza , Peru ( Penny, 1982).
Complementary description
Lectotype male ( Figs. 1 View Figure 1 and 4A View Figure 4 ).
Head: fastigium of the vertex rounded, with one sulcus that not exceeds the fastigium length; vertex greenish, with one black stripe from eye towards pronotum ( Fig. 1B View Figure 1 ).
Thorax: Pronotal disc ( Fig. 1B View Figure 1 ) greenish, anterior margin straight, posterior margin convex; furcal sulci with a median constriction; lateral carinae outlined in black and yellow; prozona with a sulcus that extends to lateral lobes of pronotum; lateral lobes of pronotum ( Fig.1A View Figure 1 ) higher than long; tegmina ( Fig. 1A View Figure 1 and 4A View Figure 4 ) rounded at apex, yellowish, with one oval black spot outlined in yellow, above CuA bifurcation; MP vein starting before the middle of tegmina, with one ramification (on the middle of the tegmina), and ending before tegmina apex; first branch of CuA vein diverging at the black spot; second branch diverging before first branch of MP; one closed cell between CuA and MP; four closed cells between branches of MP; three closed cells between the principal branch of MP and MA; Fifteen branches leaving R towards subcostal border; stridulatory area greenish, becoming brownish towards the apex dark brown; apex of femur III dark brown with black stains.
Abdomen:subgenital plate trapezoidal, with two median orientated stilli ( Fig.1C View Figure 1 ); cerci conical, straight on its first ca. four parts, becoming curved in fifth part ( Fig. 1C View Figure 1 ).
Paralectotype female ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 )
Overall morphology as in males ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 A-D); subgenital plate bilobate, triangular, with one large keel that begins at its base ( Fig. 2F View Figure 2 ); ovipositor curved upwards, dorsal valves pointed, ventral valves slender on its first part, becoming larger towards the apex ( Fig. 2G View Figure 2 ).
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Phaneropterinae |
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Phyllopterini |
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