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Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara 2006

  • 1. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79 th Street, New York, NY 10024 - 5192, USA; Grupo Sistemática de Insectos Agronomía SIA, Museo Entomológico UNAB, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 30, 45 - 03 Bogotá, Colombia.

Description

Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara, 2006

(Figures. 2B, 3B, 4B, 6A)

Type species: Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara, 2006: 190 [sp. nov.; description, photograph]

Diagnosis. (1) Frontoclypeus extended ½ of its length beyond suprantennal margin (Fig. 2B); (2) preapical area of posterior pronotal process evenly convex; (3) pronotum dark brown; (4) in lateral view, head (vertex and frontoclypeus) obliquely directed forward (Fig. 3B).

Description. (Modified from Sakakibara 2006). Color and sculpture. Head, pronotum, and legs dark brown, pronotum with yellow longitudinal elevated lines, formed by discontinuous sequences of dots. Head. Vertex without longitudinal lines. Frontoclypeus projected ½ beyond suprantennal margin (Fig. 2B). Thorax. Pronotum. In lateral view, preapical area of posterior pronotal process and metopidium evenly convex (Fig. 3B). Forewing. R vein bifurcate in two branches R 1+2+3 and R 4+5; s crossvein absent. Female. Unknown.

Measurements (mm). Male. Total length 8.60; width of head 2.76; length of head 1.60; distance between apices of humeral angles 3.48.

Material examined. Photograph of the holotype in DZUP, provided by Paulo Alveranga. Holotype label information (Sakakibara, 2005: 190p) BRASIL. Santa Catarina: “Brusque-SC | XII.1970 | V.O. Becker ” (legs missing, except the left hind leg) (DZUP).

Comments. As stated by Sakakibara (2006), N. catarina differs from N. lineosa in the following characters: frontoclypeus in N. catarina extended ½ of its length, while in N. lineosa it is extended 1/3 beyond the suprantennal margin. The pronotum is low in both species but the depression behind the humeral angles is less marked in N. catarina; in lateral view, the pronotum of N. catarina is regularly convex. This species is recorded only from Santa Catarina, Brazil in the city of Brusque.

Notes

Published as part of Gonzalez-Mozo, Laura C. & Ware, Jessica L., 2023, Review of Nasuconia Sakakibara, 2006 (Hemiptera: Membracidae) with description of three new species, pp. 321-340 in Zootaxa 5380 (4) on pages 327-328, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5380.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/10244670

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
DZUP
Scientific name authorship
Sakakibara
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Membracidae
Genus
Nasuconia
Species
catarina
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Nasuconia catarina Sakakibara, 2006 sec. Gonzalez-Mozo & Ware, 2023

References

  • Sakakibara, A. M. (2006) A new genus and three new species of treehopper Tribe Darnini (Hemiptera, Membracidae). Biociencias, 14 (2), 189 - 192.