Sphaerocysta angulata Monte, 1941

Guilbert, Éric & Montemayor, Sara I., 2010, Tingidae (Insecta, Heteroptera) from the Argentinan Yungas: new records and descriptions of selected fifth instars, Zoosystema 32 (4), pp. 549-565 : 559-560

Sphaerocysta angulata Monte, 1941

Sphaerocysta angulata Monte, 1941: 373 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Argentina. Province of Jujuy, Calilegua, 4.VI.2007, Guilbert & Montemayor coll., 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀ ( MLP) . — Province of Salta, Urundel, 7.VI.2007, Guilbert & Montemayor coll., 1 ♂, 1 instar V ( MNHN) .

DISTRIBUTION. — Brazil.

This species is newly recorded for Argentina from Jujuy and Salta. All specimens were collected by beating vegetation in the understory.

HOST PLANTS. — Bignoniaceae .

DESCRIPTION OF FIFTH INSTAR ( FIG. 6 )

Body whitish to yellowish; dull, glabrous, sparsely covered with slender, straight, whitish tubercles. Body with long, erect, slender tubercles, bearing several setae on short pedunculates, and a seta at apex; length, 0.25 to 0.38. Body length (without tubercles), 0.96 mm; width, 0.46 mm ( Fig. 6 ).

Head armed with five long tubercles, a median tubercle, a frontal pair and an occipital pair.

Pronotum wider than head with a small, median tumid elevation near anterior margin, prolonged posteriorly by a small keel; armed with two submedian pairs of tubercles as long as cephalic ones, one pair on anterior tumid elevation and one pair on keel near posterior margin; lateral margins armed with a long tubercle on posterior part, two smaller simple, tubercles without setae along anterior part, the most anterior the smallest, a tubercle between posterior and anterior tubercles, with a bulbous base bearing three short peduncles each with an apical seta.

Wing pads slightly wider than pronotum, armed with a submedian pair of long tubercles, lateral margins with a long, erect tubercle on posterior part, with six simple, smaller tubercles of different length, without setae along anterior part; five to seven short peduncles bearing a seta at apex on the middle of pads.

Abdominal tergites with central part slightly swollen; first tergites bearing a median tubercle, bifid at base, simple, with a seta at apex of each branch; second, fifth, sixth and eighth tergites with long, erect, submedian tubercles; fourth to ninth tergites with a long, erect tubercle on each lateral margin.

Figures

FIG. 6. — Habitus of instar V of Sphaerocysta angulata Monte, 1941. Scale bar: 1 mm.