Megabahita irrorata ( Osborn, 1923 )

Camisão, Beatriz M., Zahniser, James N. & Takiya, Daniela M., 2025, On the genus Megabahita Linnavuori & DeLong, 1978 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae): new species, redescriptions, key to species, and a synonymy, Zootaxa 5637 (2), pp. 326-336 : 331

Megabahita irrorata ( Osborn, 1923) ( Fig. 3 )

Material examined: one ♂, “ Aragarças | GO, Brasil | XI.1965 | Alvarenga col.”, “ Megabahita | irrorata | (Osb)”, “Purchased by| AMNH from | R. Linnavuori” ( AMNH); one ♂, “ Faz. Nova Orlandia | Jataí, GO - Brasil | I.964 - Martins, | Morgante & Silva ”, “ Megabahita | irrorata | (Osborn)” ( OSUC) ; one ♀, “Dec”, “Chapada”, “Collection | CFBaker”, “ Eutettix | irroratus Osb | Compared | with type by Oman”, “ Bahita | irrorata (Osborn) | Kramer 1963”, “ USNMENT01513096 ” ( USNM) .

Notes: The labels of the USNM specimen state only the word “Chapada”. As discussed in Camisão et al. 2024a, the locality is interpreted as being the Parque Nacional Chapada dos Guimarães, in Mato Grosso State, Brazil.

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FIGURE 3. Megabahita irrorata (Osborn, 1923). A–B, male specimen from Goiás, Brazil (OSUC). C–G, female specimen from Mato Grosso, Brasil (USNMENT01513096). A, Dorsal habitus; B, Lateral habitus; C, Dorsal habitus; D, lateral habitus; E, Head, frontal view; F, Abdominal sternite VII (with presence of brocossomes) and pygofer, ventral view; G, Labels.