Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923 ), 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 : 306

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

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scientific name

Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923 )
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Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923) View in CoL

( Figs. 11X View FIGURE 11 , 12X View FIGURE 12 , 13X View FIGURE 13 )

Platymetopius sulphureus Osborn, 1923: 35 View in CoL .

Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923) View in CoL Oman, 1938: 368.

Scaphytopius ( Cloanthanus) sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923) Linnavuori, 1959: 80 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Length of male 4 mm. General appearance black and sulphur-yellow. Crown 1.6 x longer than basal width between eyes. Crown yellow from base to 2/3 of its length. Scutellum, mesonotum, and pronotum sulphur-yellow. Forewings dark brown with most of clavus yellow with whitish border ( Osborn, 1923), with 7–8 costal veins. Face brown, becoming blacker toward margin; base of frontoclypeus with alternating brown and yellow lines ( Linnavuori, 1959). Paraphyses in ventral view fused at base, diverging slightly at about midlength. Aedeagus in lateral view with shaft and dorsal apodeme C-shaped; dorsal apodeme of similar length to shaft; apex of shaft with two small spines that in lateral aspect are curved downward apically.

Distribution. Bolivia ( Osborn, 1923), Perú ( Lozada & Arellano, 2008); Costa Rica.

Biology. Unknown.

Material examined. 1 ♂. Costa Rica ( MIUCR 0001083 )

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

Genus

Scaphytopius

Loc

Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923 )

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

Scaphytopius sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923 )

Oman, P. W. 1938: 368
1938
Loc

Platymetopius sulphureus

Osborn, H. 1923: 35
1923
Loc

Scaphytopius ( Cloanthanus ) sulphureus ( Osborn, 1923 )

Linnavuori, R. E. 1923: 80
1923
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