Bothriocera species

Cesne, Maxime Le, Huber, Elisabeth & Bourgoin, Thierry, 2025, Historical account and redescription of Bothriocera substigmatica (Lethierry, 1881) (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae), an endemic species from the lesser Antilles, Zootaxa 5665 (1), pp. 85-98 : 95

Bothriocera species of Guadeloupe

B. substigmatica was the only known Bothriocerini species in Guadeloupe until Bonfils and Delpanque in 1971 mentioned the presence of Bothriocera eborea Fennah, 1943 , which exhibits a different wing pattern and male genitalia. Since these reports, the J. Carayon, and L. Matile collects in the 70s and 80s, and J. Etienne and the third author in 2001, provided numerous specimens from Lesser Antilles kept in the collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, and are now under study. With the collection of C. Pierre from Martinique Entomologie, who also collected Cixiidae in the French Antilles in recent years, we can state that B. substigmatica is a common species in Guadeloupe and Martinique. If we did not yet find in those collecions any specimens of B. eborea as mentioned by Bonfils and Delpanque (1971), we found at least one female of B. cyanea Fennah, 1943 collected by the third author in 2001 and several other specimens in C. Pierre's collection (Bartlett, 2023). The Cixiid diversity of the Lesser Antilles is still poorly known, and new Bothriocera species are expected to be described in near future.