Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944 ), 1959

Arias-Paco, Andrés & Godoy, Carolina, 2025, A review of the leafhopper genus Scaphytopius (Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from Costa Rica with descriptions of sixteen new species, Zootaxa 5696 (3), pp. 301-333 : 304

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.3.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17323859

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scientific name

Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944 )
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Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944) View in CoL

( Figs. 11N View FIGURE 11 , 12N View FIGURE 12 , 13N View FIGURE 13 , 14G View FIGURE 14 )

Tumeus latidens DeLong, 1944: 172 View in CoL

Scaphytopius ( Scaphytopius) latidens ( DeLong, 1944) Linnavuori, 1959:72 View in CoL .

Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944) Metcalf, 1967:2255 View in CoL .

Diagnosis. Length of male 4–4.5 mm. General appearance pale with darker coloration ( DeLong, 1944). Crown 1.7 x longer than basal width between eyes, light brown with two pale longitudinal bands in center, separated by a dark line, extending for 2/3 of crown; third pale longitudinal band, discontinuous with previous bands, extends from last third of crown to apex. Forewings white, heavily marked with dark brown, 8 veinlets and few indistinct round pale spots outlined in brown. Face dark brown ( DeLong, 1944). Paraphysis undivided through most of length, braces divergent beyond aedeagus, terminating in pair of falcate spines, dorsal spine larger than ventral one; preatrium absent, short and robust, with shaft and dorsal apodeme forming V shaped space ( Dmitriev et al., 2022).

Distribution. Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua ( DeLong, 1944), Costa Rica.

Biology. Collected from coffee plantations.

Material examined. 16 ♂. Costa Rica, Heredia, Santa Bárbara. 1100 m. 10.XII.98. col: Godoy & Hanson. In: Coffea . ( MZUCR) . 7 ♂. Costa Rica, Heredia, Santa Bárbara. 1100 m. 10.XII.98. col: Godoy & Hanson. In: Coffea, MUCR 0001094-MUCR 0001100 ( MIUCR) . 2 ♂. Costa Rica, Alajuela, Carrizal, Pavas de Carrizal. 1372 m. 10°04′27.2′′N 84°10′12.4′′W. 30.VII.2024. In Coffea arabica , col: L. Garita, S. Carvajal & K. Valverde, MIUCR 0001092/ MIUCR 0001093 ( MIUCR) GoogleMaps .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Scaphytopius

Loc

Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944 )

Arias-Paco, Andrés & Godoy, Carolina 2025
2025
Loc

Scaphytopius latidens ( DeLong, 1944 )

Metcalf, Z. P. 1967: 2255
1967
Loc

Tumeus latidens

DeLong, D. M. 1944: 172
1944
Loc

Scaphytopius ( Scaphytopius ) latidens ( DeLong, 1944 )

Linnavuori, R. E. 1944: 72
1944
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